Jennifer Isidore
Staff details
Jennifer's interests: practice-based research and music as resistance in Afro-diasporic and black British musicking
Jennifer is a vocalist, producer, and musician working under the names Amala Seven and ***Isidore. Her work explores themes of the African diaspora, spirituality, identity, belonging, migration, memory, myth, community and symbiosis with nature.
Jennifer has performed and/or recorded with Jazz Warrior Cleveland Watkiss, Randolph Matthews, Richard Olatunde Baker, Eduardo Dolzan, Cosimo Cadore, Gregg Kofi Brown, Fay Jones, Susan Cadogan, members of The Israelites, and the Stardust People’s Choir. Jennifer has hosted “A World in London” radio show on Resonance FM London.
Jennifer is currently undertaking PhD studies at Goldsmiths. Her thesis is titled: "Cultures of Resistance: Black British Musicking, Post Windrush to the Present"
Academic qualifications
- FDA Creative Music Production and Business 2017
- Masters with Distinction, Popular Music 2021
Teaching and supervision
2024-25
Module Convenor
MU52042D: PERFORMANCE: NEW CONTEXTS (2024-25) (Level 5)
Teaching
POPULAR MUSIC COMPOSITION (level 7)
POPULAR MUSIC PERFORMANCE (level 5)
PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE (level 5)
SONGWRITING (level 5)
Supervision
CREATIVE PERFORMANCE (level 6)
COMPOSITION PORTFOLIO (level 6)
African Diasporic Research Studies
Engaging in an excavation of the making of meaning within the framework of the historical presence of musicians from the African diaspora in Britain from the late 1950’s onwards, Jennifer employs auto ethnographic/ethnographic methodologies and practice based research that places her own voice, personal history, and artistry, alongside shared narratives drawn from her extended familial network of Dominican musicians, at the centre.
The Isidore family of musicians have worked and performed with a large number of musicians and artists from the mid 1960's onwards, including Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Grant, Manfred Mann, Steven Stills, Joe Cocker, Junior Marvin, Linda Lewis, Fela Kuti, Robin Trower, Richard Wright, Phil Lynott, Peter Gabriel, Seal, Cleveland Watkiss, members of the Isrealites, Susan Cadogan, Richard Olatunde Baker, Greg Kofi Brown and Fay Jones.