Tyné Angela is a GRAMMY-winning musician and doctoral researcher whose work centers on echolocation: the art of navigating by sound. Her dissertation at Oxford explores how the earliest recordings of Black women's voices (c. 1920) became acts of sonic wayfinding, resistance, and survival. Concurrently training as an audiologist, she is passionate about helping people maintain hearing health and stay attuned to the sounds that shape their lives. In her music and research, she seeks to bridge creativity and care, linking her scholarship in music with clinical study of the auditory system and the medical humanities.
Alongside her scholarship, Tyné has released seven albums since 2010. She has performed internationally, opening for artists such as Lalah Hathaway and Vanessa Williams, and singing at the Kennedy Center. She completed her B.A. and M.A. at Dartmouth, where she was named a Senior Fellow with honors. Her current research treats historic phonograph recordings as navigational acts (like sonar), mapping the cultural terrain of the early 20th century. She is the founder of Echolocation, a creative and research platform that merges multimedia production with archival restoration and cultural memory.
Tyné’s work has been featured at the Grammy Museum, Banff Centre, and TEDx, with coverage in publications ranging from Seventeen Magazine to Columbia Metropolitan Magazine. Her practice has been generously supported by the National YoungArts Foundation, the SC Arts Commission, and the Recording Academy, among others. As a 2024-25 YoungArts Fellow, Tyné’s Sustainable Symphony project was recently showcased at the Columbia Museum of Art. She is also a devoted foodie and Marine wife.
