Amyra León is a multidisciplinary artist and educator from Harlem. Rooted in liberation, communal healing, and the power of testimony, her practice transcends medium and genre. She was a 2026 Artist in Residence at The Vineyard Theatre where she prepared new works for the stage. She has released two studio albums, Something Melancholy and WITNESS, and is the critically acclaimed author of Concrete Kids (Penguin) and Freedom We Sing (Flying Eye Books). León was featured in a PBS American Masters documentary on her artistry, which received an NAACP Image Award nomination. She tours and performs internationally, and her work is taught in universities and schools throughout the U.S. and U.K.Her genre fluid musical language bridges jazz, soul, orchestral composition, and spoken word, creating spaces where truth, resistance, and radical imagination can thrive.
While at MacDowell, León focused on the composition and poetic excavation of Blood & Thirst, a multimedia opera and exhibition exploring endometriosis, medical negligence, bodily autonomy, and collective memory.
