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Alice Coltrane
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Rashied Ali
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John Coltrane
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Albert Ayler
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Jimmy Garrison
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Brandee Younger
Brandee Younger
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Lonnie Liston Smith
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Ravi Coltrane
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Pharoah Sanders
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Leon Thomas
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Jeff "Tain" Watts
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Billy Harper
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Reggie Workman
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Julian Priester
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Lakecia Benjamin
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Archie Shepp
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Cecil McBee
Cecil McBee
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Marion Brown
Marion Brown
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Dorothy Ashby
Dorothy Ashby
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Hank Mobley
Hank Mobley
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Bheki Mseleku
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Josef Leimberg
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Curtis Fuller
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Harold Land
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Kenny Burrell
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Kamasi Washington
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Collie Buddz
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Elvin Jones
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Ben Riley
Ben Riley
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Jimmy Heath
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Dave Liebman
Dave Liebman
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Herbie Hancock
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Radha Renee Botofasina
musical artist

Radha Renee Botofasina

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Radha Renee Reyes-Botofasina is an Afro-Cuban American harpist, pianist and vocalist from Brooklyn, N.Y.

As a young woman Botofasina was part of a band called The Spirits of Rhythm.

While living in Agoura Hills, CA. Botofasina became a music student of Alice Coltrane, the wife of prominent jazz musician John Coltrane. Reyes-Botofasina has played harp at several memorial events following Coltrane's death. She is the director of the Universal Consciousness Harp Ensemble which performs in Los Angeles. Botofasina has released many albums, beginning with her debut Mantram in 1999.

Botofasina studied with Coltrane while she lived on the 50-acre ashram Coltrane founded in 1983, Coltrane died in 2007.

In the Los Angeles jazz scene Botofasina has performed harp with the Dwight Trible Cosmic Band.

In 2010, Botofasina performed Coltrane's sacred music before audiences at UCLA's Royce Hall.

Botofasina formed the Eternal Soul Orchestra (ESO) in 2013 which debuted her orchestral work Meditations on the Supreme at the California African American Museum and in 2015 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.