Sinema White

Sinema is an advocate for expression in communities through music, songwriting, recording and performing. She describes her art as “proactive”; her main goal is to initiate a challenge between participants she creates music with and the audience affected by it. Sinema challenges the norm of mainstream radio’s content by having youth in her workshops write lyrics that inspire and encourage others. She says she is “simply asking them to find their truth in music and realize that the lives the mainstream radio promotes is not one that’s safe and full of success.” Sinema’s long-term vision is to alter the way musical lyrics shape our minds and spirits as a whole. She hopes to do this through giving Philadelphia area youth the opportunity to create their own positive music. By doing so, they gain control of the type of music they are subjected to and influenced by.  Sinema promotes “Expression over Extinction”, a personal concept about the importance of releasing your feelings instead of pacifying them.

Sinema will create a collection of music that will directly influence and benefit youth who are often targets of music that is saturated with violence and sex. The music created will feature the voices of the youth involved in the project, further encouraging their dedication to challenging what they see and hear from society and in the media. This album will be a celebration of life, without violence as a voice or sex as an escape.