Live Music With Raffia

Raffia is an R&B Soul/Jazz Artist who has performed with recording artists such as Christina Aguilera, Toni Braxton, Blake Shelton, Chante Moore, Tito Jackson of the Jackson 5, Bastille, and many more! 

Raffia is also a graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music, in which she obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education. Her professional experience prompted her to open up the Raffia Music Studio music school located in the city of Lomita California in 2016, servicing children ages 4 to 92. 

Since then, Raffia has been working in partnership with the Music for Young Minds Foundation founded for her by her husband, C.C. Cecil Thomas Jr., providing free music lessons to underserved children in surrounding cities. 

Raffia released her first EP back in 2013, which is now available on all streaming platforms such as Apple Music iTunes, Spotify, entitled “Let It Go.”