​​ARTIST BIO

 

OMILANI is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. She graduated summa cum laude and upon graduation, immediately embarked upon a Fulbright Hays-Group Project Abroad in Nigeria. She completed a study at the University of Cambridge (UK) for her Masters thesis as well as returned to Africa and the Caribbean for further fieldwork. Ms. Alarcón is a visual and performing artist, poet, scholar and Founder of the Latinegras brand.

 

She has over ten scholarly publications, 8 albums , and was in the top 7 GRAMMY Showcase Finalists. She is fluent in four languages other than English and has traveled and studied business, languages, and performing arts in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas.

 

Her documentary, "LATINEGRAS: The Journey of Self Love through an AfroLatina Lens" debuted in Seville, Spain.

 

Currently she is on TOUR with a Tagalog album dedicated to her Filipino Roots called UGAT FILIPINO (Filipino Roots), a Yoruba Diaspora album called Ore Yeye O and she has just completed a documentary about the search for her long lost relatives from the Philippines called "APART of the Story"