Ahya Simone

Based in Detroit, she is best known for her work as a harpist and for creating and starring in the web series pilot Femme Queen Chronicles.

[3] She grew up singing in the church choir and started to play harp as a student at Cass Technical High School when she was 16.

She began to cover r&b and soul music, and named Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane, and as one of her biggest influences.

[1] In addition to her work as a harpist, Simone is a singer-songwriter whose music fuses r&b, jazz, experimental, and electronic.

[10] Through the organization she launched the comedy web series pilot Femme Queen Chronicles that follows four trans women in Detroit, which she likened to Living Single and Chewing Gum.