ALGEBRA BLESSETT
Doors Open: 9:15 PM
GENERAL ADMISSION: $46.10
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GENERAL ADMISSION Public Onsale: October 12, 2024 4:07 PM to December 28, 2024 10:15 PM
Born and bred in Atlanta, R&B artist Algebra’s hometown roots run deep. A fifth generation Atlantan, Algebra attended Fulton County Schools for her primary and secondary education then with a music scholarship enrolled in HBCU Morris Brown College as a business major with a minor in music. The singer/songwriter discovered and developed her vocal talent in Atlanta, honing her craft working with local superproducers like Dallas Austin and Bryan-Michael Cox. Atlanta both raised and made Algebra and she continues to call the city home and maintain a strong connection to the ATL community.
Given the unique name, "Algebra," by her mother and father, Algebra Felicia Blessett grew up in a religious household deeply rooted in gospel music where mother was a minister, gospel singer and bassist. While music was in her DNA and she loved singing in the church choir, Algebra resisted the urge to pursue singing professionally. Although she had originally wanted to attend the prestigious North Atlanta School of the Performing Arts to become a professional dancer, she was accepted after auditioning with a song.
"I treated singing as my continuum, before recognizing it was apart of my purpose," she recalls. "The edification of being around music, seeing my mom play bass and watching my great-grandmother train singers whilst working shoulder to shoulder with Mayors of Atlanta and the clergy for neighborhood community advancement sparked a lot of stuff that I didn't know was being sparked at the time, and then something happened in my adolescence that pulled me into music and service."
Ultimately Algebra embraced her musical destiny and she quickly gained a reputation on her hometown's booming R&B scene becoming an in-demand backup singer and lending her voice and pen to such recording projects as “Without Him” on Debra Killings debut album, India.Arie's Grammy-winning 2002 platinum smash Voyage to India, while touring with R&B artists Monica and Bilal. Blessett’s notoriety spread, she continued to expand her creative horizons by teaching herself to play guitar and write songs, initially by adapting her first-person journal entries into lyrics.
"I had only been playing guitar for about a month when I started writing songs," she recalls. "Eventually, I learned how songs can tell a story, and I learned that the way I tell a story is different from the way some of my favorite songwriters tell a story. It scared me a little bit at first, because some of the creatives I was working with laughed when I'd play them what I was writing. But that just forced me to push myself harder, and to do it for myself and not care what others thought."