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Sage Bava grew up on Odonata, an animal rescue and nature preserve, where the boundary between wild and domestic was never clearly drawn. A great blue heron was as much a neighbor as a person. That upbringing shaped everything: a reverence for the living world, and an understanding that we are not separate from it.
She began performing and writing at age ten, mentored early on by Les Paul at the Iridium in New York. She went on to earn pre-collegiate diplomas in Jazz Piano and Classical Voice from the Eastman School of Music, followed by a Master's degree in Contemporary Performance and Production from Berklee College of Music.
In her teens, she came to a point of profound disconnection following a traumatic experience. What pulled her back was not a human intervention first. It was the land — a field, a tree, the open sky — that held her through the shedding of that skin and into her next chapter. That transition became the center of her music and creative life, and the seed not only for In Whose Eyes but for everything that has followed.
She has performed internationally across New York, Los Angeles, London, Spain, Costa Rica, and beyond, at venues including The Times Center, 54 Below, Verse, The Pheasantry, and most recently MOCA Los Angeles and Burning Man. She is also a published author — The Taste of Pomegranate Seeds (Wipf & Stock) — and co-hosts the podcast In Service Of on iHeart, with guests including Jane Goodall, Herbie Hancock, and Lenny Kravitz.
Her debut album is produced by four-time Grammy winner Larry Klein and features Christian McBride, Braxton Cook, Larry Goldings, and Anthony Wilson.
Recent performances include joining Modern Biology on his Field Trip tour through Central Europe, BottleRock Festival (Napa), Wonderfruit Festival (Thailand), SXSW, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and Burning Man.
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