Queen Yaya

Place of birth:

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA:

Biography:

Kajifa Brown, also known as Queen Yaya, of the Washitaw Nation. She is a New Orleanian Mardi Gras Indian Tribe leader who performed a ceremonial tambourine healing ritual in an empty room during the Lemonade visual album. This scene appears in the album's "Resurrection" chapter and was meant to heal the space and honor ancestral spirits.