Nona Hendryx & Tariq Al-Sabir - YoungArts at Joe's Pub Live at Joe's Pub at The Public

Premieres DECEMBER 15 at 8pm ET via Joe's Pub YouTube and The Public Theater Website.

This performance features the sensational Tariq Al-Sabir an alumus of The National YoungArts Foundation, paired with 2018 Joe's Pub Vanguard Resident Nona Hendryx.

Composer, Vocalist, Music Director and Producer Tariq Al-Sabir has been described as a "boundless talent" by Baltimore's City Hall and The Examiner deemed him "a rising musical mastermind." A performer and writer with a command over many styles including classical, gospel, jazz, pop, and musical theater, his early passion for music was supported by The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University with a full scholarship for composition lessons that started while he was in middle school and maintained through his high schooling at the Baltimore School for the Arts. In 2006, Tariq's first job was lending his voice as a lead vocalist to the season 4 theme song for HBO's "The Wire."

Nona Hendryx a celebrated vocalist, record producer, songwriter, musician, and author, was an original member of the trio Labelle, whose smash single "Lady Marmalade" is a timeless classic. Her solo singles "Transformation," "I Sweat," "Rock This House," and "Winds of Change" from the 80s and 90's are as well-known as her work as a guest vocalist with legendary acts including Bernie Worrell (Parliament-Funkadelic), Talking Heads, and Peter Gabriel.