inga is a multidisciplinary artist with a passion for music, writing, curation, spirituality, and community.

A first-generation Rwandan, inga was raised in a small town in southwest Michigan, where her cultural background and spiritual upbringing became foundational to her creative expression. She moved to Chicago in 2022 to pursue her artistic practice and build a life rooted in creativity, connection, and self-discovery.

inga’s musical journey began the moment she left her mother’s womb. According to her older sisters, even before she could form words, she was already singing along to rhythms, demonstrating an innate connection to music from an early age. After years in classical and gospel choirs, she eventually left college to pursue music full-time.

She often describes herself as “the Soulquarians’ long-lost daughter,” blending hip hop and soul into a sound shaped by ancestral memory, vulnerability, and lived experience. Inspired by artists like D’Angelo and Jill Scott, inga has performed at venues and festivals including Untitled Chicago, Navy Pier Beer Garden, City Winery Chicago, The Promontory, and Garfield Park, and has opened for Rapsody, EarthGang, and Coast Contra. Her debut project, ingaludes, explores love, sensuality, healing, self-worth, and empowerment.

Beyond music, inga’s creative practice extends into poetry, curation, and cultural work. Through her Substack inga’s incantations and poetry chapbook Saltwater Psalms, she explores spirituality, Black womanhood, intuition, grief, and the sacredness of becoming. Her curatorial and community work has included collaborations with NAOMI Projects and Afrotrak, including The 11th Art of Blackness Exhibition and Jazz + Gumbo.

Dedicated to ancestral connection and spiritual healing, inga is an Apetebi in the Lucumí Ifá tradition, continuing to deepen her practice under the guidance of her elders and godsiblings at Temple Orisha Ile Ifá. She is also a certified Afro-Indigenous Full Spectrum Birthworker, with training rooted in reproductive justice, informed consent, and culturally grounded care. Alongside her creative and cultural work, inga works in childcare as a nanny, caring for infants and young children and bringing the same intentionality, patience, and nurturing spirit into her work with families.

Across all of her work, inga creates from a place of devotion—where creativity becomes a way to witness, remember, heal, and transform.

where art meets ritual.