The Fannie Lou Hamer Story is an entrancing one-woman play performed by award-winning actress, Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye. Mzuri poetically shares about voting rights activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, through song and storytelling. She channels Mrs. Hamer, transfixing the audience on a riveting 90-minute journey of storytelling, video montage with twelve inspiring songs about Mrs. Hamer’s activism as the “Mother of Voter Registration” for Black people which aided in the passage of the Voters’ Rights Act of 1965. A critic once wrote, “When Ms. Mzuri sings God smiles and angels flap their wings”. The Fannie Lou Hamer Story will be performed on March 18th and 19th at The Lyric Theatre as part of the National Voice Of The Empowered (V.O.T.E.) Tour.
Born in Patterson, NJ, Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye is an internationally acclaimed vocalist, actress, and multi-award-winning playwright of The Fannie Lou Hamer Story. Her talents combine the presence of a movie star with a booming vocal range and versatility of an opera singer. She has been enthusiastically received on cabaret and concert stages both nationally and internationally. Ms. Aimbaye is also the founder and president of Healing Through the Sound of Music, Inc. (HTSM) a 501c3 non-profit social impact music and theater production company commemorating Black Women as Matriarchs of Mankind. Ms Aimbaye was cast as "Lucy" for the first African American film depicting a slave revolt, SANKOFA, just re-released on Netflix. She was commissioned by the National Congress of Black Women, to write a short play, a song, and perform for the historic installment of the Sojourner Truth bust in Constitution Hall, D.C. She was chosen to perform “Still I Rise” before an audience of global leaders for the 10th year commemoration of 9/11 at the United Nations accompanied by the New York City Symphony.