J.A.D.E full name Joanna is a 23 year old multifunctional artist from Amsterdam. She makes music, creates beats, sings, creates drawings, works as a model and studies at the Herman Brood Academie in Utrecht in the Netherlands to be a music industry professional.  Regarding her music Joanna feels mostly at home in NEO soul. She started her music career in 2018 and her songs talk about trauma, heartbreaks, and things we experience as people, things that are part of our journeys. Joanna finds it important to share feelings, talk about our challenges, stories and connect through those with each other. In this beautiful conversation on a Friday evening, that felt like a gathering and very intimate chat with a wonderful soul, we speak about music and beats as a faithful companion in Joanna's life, music and modeling as a means towards healing Joanna's inner child, we speak about our bodies and how they remember trauma and injustices. Joanna shares her spiritual practices with us. We discuss art as healing, the importance of creating, community, love languages, our mothers, pictures as a means of representation and listen to one of Joanna's songs. Enjoy hanging out with us beautiful people😍  Host: Stella Saliari  At Salt the Podcast  my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment. #healingjourney #diversity #diversityandinclusion #diversitymatters #innerchild #amsterdam #artist #beats #blackgirlsrock #blackgirlmagic #blackwomen #multifunctional #creating #spirituality #representation #representationmatters #equitymatters #saltthepodcast #intersectionality #antiracism Follow Salt @salt_thepodcast Subscribe to Salt The Podcast on Soundwise