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Kijana Wiseman, M.Ed. is a versatile performer of theatrical and communicative arts. An award-winning lyric coloratura soprano with a 3.5 octave range, Kijana has been performing since she was four years old--professionally since the age of nine. She has won the City of Houston Talent Competition and been named the national APCA 2002 Best College Performing Artist of the Year. Her interactive one-woman show, The Griot, has been named the Best College Diversity Program for 2001 and 2002.

Kijana began her theatrical career as a child actress at Houston's Theatre Inc. and Alley Theatre where she held many lead roles in musicals and plays. She received her BFA in Theatre from the University of Houston and her Masters, specializing in African Theatre, as a result of joint studies at Texas Southern University and the University of Liberia, West Africa. Kijana lived in Liberia, for 6 years, first as a Peace Corps Volunteer, working and performing with the National Liberian Cultural Troupe, then as a performer, model and TV host of “Under the Palm Tree with Kijana” (for 3 years) on ELBC-TV. She sang with Mariam Makeba, Hugh Masakela and, upon returning to America, for several years with the Houston Symphony Chorus, The Oratorio Society’s Masterworks Chorus and as an artist of MoShows.com.

Kijana has a voice that makes most audiences think she is a CD when they first hear her and has developed a collection of hundreds of jazz / pop / vaudeville / showtunes and international songs with ipod tracks or live accompaniment. She has appeared in over a dozen countries on the American, African and European continents and on stages as “The Griot” at over 200 colleges in the USA. Her song list, biography, promotional files, performance history, newspaper reviews and articles, photo gallery, and more info is available at kijana.com or 713.521.0900.

Location: Houston, Texas

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