NativRoots Collective

NativRoots Collective NativRoots Collective is a creative agency empowering artists, brands, and organizations through bold ideas and tailored strategies.

We also produce short films, documentaries, and music videos. NativRoots Collective is a creative agency focused on developing bold ideas and innovative solutions that help artists, brands, and organizations stand out. Founded on the belief that creativity can drive meaningful change and build community, we specialize in crafting tailored strategies and products that inspire, engage, and leave a l

asting impact. Alongside our agency work, we also produce short films, documentaries, and music videos. Our expertise spans branding, digital marketing, content creation, visual storytelling, artist development, and experiential design, among other areas. We collaborate with artists, businesses, nonprofits, and visionaries to tell their stories authentically. Whether it’s designing a resonant campaign, building a high-converting digital presence, or creating captivating visuals, we approach every project with passion, innovation, care, and precision. At NativRoots Collective, we’re more than just creators—we’re collaborators, problem-solvers, dedicated storytellers, and dreamers. We thrive on helping clients connect with their audiences, amplify their missions, and turn ambitious ideas into reality. We’ve partnered with clients like Grammy Award-winning artist Michaël Brun, Naïka, Paul Beaubrun, Forbes Magazine, TIME Magazine, Berkeley College, Barbancourt, Stay Sojo, Harvard University, Lincoln Center, the Jazz Foundation of America, and more.

New York City! Rhythm+Roots brings together powerhouse DJs Gardy Girault, Thando, and Jack Rooster for an unforgettable ...
05/22/2025

New York City! Rhythm+Roots brings together powerhouse DJs Gardy Girault, Thando, and Jack Rooster for an unforgettable night of Afro-Electronic music. Whether you're deep into Rara Tech and Afro House or just curious, come dance, connect, and celebrate. Expect immaculate vibes, an open bar all night, and a lineup that'll keep the floor moving.

June 14th | 9PM-1AM | Open Bar

Rhythm+Roots fuses Haitian music and Afro-Beats to create a vibrant space for cultural celebration and community gathering.

05/12/2025

Happy Launch Day!!🌺🎉

The NativRoots Collective x Klub Kalalou collection is officially available!!! Shop the collection at www.klubkalalou.com 🫶🇭🇹

Mèsi anpil to our beautiful supporters for the love and excitement!

The Klub Kalalou x NativRoots Collective Collection is a vibrant celebration of Haitian identity — brought to life through Kreyòl expressions and proverbs that honor the artist, the dreamer, and the innovator in YOU. Most importantly, this collection pays tribute to all the beauty that makes us proudly Haitian.

Created by two Haitian creative powerhouses Klub Kalalou and NativRoots Collective, this capsule is a Rasanbleman — a gathering of energies and stories — expressed through simple, stylish pieces that connect us back to our roots. Perfect for your everyday hustle or a night out, these designs move with you, wherever life takes you.

It is an honor to share this collection with you!✨🫶

Bon sole fanmi! ☀️The Klub Kalalou x NativRoots Collective Apparel Collection launches tomorrow!! 🌺🇭🇹Stay tuned for more...
05/11/2025

Bon sole fanmi! ☀️

The Klub Kalalou x NativRoots Collective Apparel Collection launches tomorrow!! 🌺🇭🇹

Stay tuned for more updates. We are so excited to share this collection with you!

05/11/2025

Our unisex “Zen Vwazen Pa Zen Pa M” shirts in black, white, and orange terracotta — part ot the Klub Kalalou x NativRoots Collective Apparel collection. ☀️🌺

This Kreyòl expression invokes the idea that what brings peace to someone else might not bring peace to you! Sometimes you gotta remind folks: what works for your neighbor isn’t always meant for you.

Protect your peace. Rock your truth with our Zen Vwazen Pa Zen Pa M shirts— yours to own May 12 at www.klubkalalou.com 🇭🇹

05/11/2025

Klub Kalalou x NativRoots Collective Apparel Collection, designed with love and YOU in mind. 🌺✨

☀️May 12 at www.klubkalalou.com☀️

05/11/2025

Introducing our Pi Piti Pi Rèd unisex shirts — available in black, white, and orange terracotta! 💪☀️

Celebrate the beauty of our Kreyòl language with this powerful proverb and mantra. Let “Pi Piti Pi Rèd” — small but mighty — inspire and empower you to boldly embrace any creative path or life adventure ahead. 🇭🇹🦁

Our Pi Piti Pi Rèd shirt— part of the x .co Apparel Collection— is yours to own May 12 at www.klubkalalou.com!

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05/11/2025

Klub Kalalou x NativRoots Collective Apparel Collection • Launching May 12 at www.klubkalalou.com ☀️

This collection is a vibrant celebration of Haitian identity — brought to life through Kreyòl expressions and proverbs that honor the artist, the dreamer, and the innovator in YOU. Most importantly, this collection pays tribute to all the beauty that makes us proudly Haitian. 🇭🇹

Stay tuned for more updates!

The Klub Kalalou x NativRoots Collective Apparel Collection is a tribute to Ayiti — to the quiet confidence, the express...
05/07/2025

The Klub Kalalou x NativRoots Collective Apparel Collection is a tribute to Ayiti — to the quiet confidence, the expressive soul, and the simple beauty that lives in our everyday moments as Haitian people. Every piece carries that spirit.

Nou se Ayiti. Ou se Ayiti. 🇭🇹

Stay tuned for more updates on the collection. It’s yours May 12 exclusively at www.klubkalalou.com 🌊🌺

05/07/2025

Bonjou! Bonswa! This year for Haitian Heritage Month, we are proud to introduce the Klub Kalalou x NativRoots Collective Apparel Collection! 🇭🇹

Dropping May 12 exclusively on www.klubkalalou.com 🌊🌺

03/04/2025

Meet Dom Salvador (.salvador.75) - recipient of the 2025 Jazz Legacies Fellowship!

“I think he’s an excellent pianist in the world of pop culture and jazz,” Harry Belafonte, who employed Salvador as a bandleader, once said. “He’s a trophy.”

Born in the small Brazilian city of Rio Claro in 1938, Salvador gravitated toward piano at an early age. Although his tutelage was in classical music, Pixinguinha — the famed choro saxophonist — turned his ear; so did the sounds of American big bands. A child prodigy, he pulled crowds at local dance clubs. In 1969, he released his self-titled album, a classic Brazilian-soul fusion project. “For me to do a thing where I’m copying something else, I don’t want to do it,” Salvador has said. “I like making a thing that’s a fusion, mixing the Brazilian thing with the soul thing.”

By the mid ‘70s — against the backdrop of Brazilian political discord — Salvador was back in New York, single-mindedly focused on a jazz career. He recorded a solo album in 1976, and went on to play and record with Herbie Mann, Charlie Rouse and Belafonte.

Salvador’s 2012 album with the Dom Salvador Samba Jazz Sextet entitled The Art of Samba Jazz won the 2012 Brazilian Music Award for Best Instrumental Album. His Rio 65 trio’s 50th anniversary celebration at Carnegie Hall was released digitally as Dom Salvador & Rio 65 Trio live in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall. He was also the subject of a documentary which was released in 2021 entitled Dom Salvador and Abolition.

Learn more about his legacy: https://jazzfoundation.org/jazz-legacies-fellowship/

Congratulations, Dom, for receiving the Jazz Legacies Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation . We are proud to honor and celebrate the groundbreaking musicians who have shaped the very nature of jazz.

📷 Steven Baboun (), NativRoots Collective

03/04/2025

Meet Reggie Workman - recipient of the 2025 Jazz Legacies Fellowship!

For nearly 70 years, Reggie Workman has worked at the very center of jazz, performing with icons while guiding subsequent generations to musical excellence.

Growing up in Philadelphia, Workman played with fellow future heavyweights of the music such as Lee Morgan, Archie Shepp, Kenny Barron, and McCoy Tyner. He also worked with John Coltrane, and joined the saxophonist’s early legendary quartet, appearing on now-canonized recordings such as “Live” at the Village Vanguard.

Asked decades later what he learned from Coltrane; Workman replied that “John explained to me that “I was to be myself. I hired you because of who you are and what you do, so do it.’”

As a supporting artist, he excelled in every corner of jazz, playing alongside Freddie Cole, Herbie Mann, Archie Shepp, the New York Art Quartet, Sonny Stitt, Max Roach, Alice Coltrane, Mal Waldron, and dozens more. From the ‘70s on, he built up a strong catalog of albums as a leader.

Education and community leadership have been part of Workman’s practice all along. In the ‘70s and ‘80s he co-founded Collective Black Artists, was musical director of the New Muse Community Museum in Brooklyn, co-founded the Artists Alliance, with the On Time Jazz Series. He later brought his unique skill set to the New School.

Workman is a 2020 NEA Jazz Master, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow in collaboration with Maya Milenovic; a Lifetime Achievement Award honoree from the Jazz Foundation of America and the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation; a recipient of the Eubie Blake Jazz Award for Excellence, a NYFA Fellow and more. He and Milenovic are working on a book, a documentary film (Immortal: The Musical Crusade of Reggie Workman) and a stage trilogy.

Learn more about his legacy: https://jazzfoundation.org/jazz-legacies-fellowship/

Congratulations, Reggie, for receiving the Jazz Legacies Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation . We are proud to honor and celebrate the groundbreaking musicians who have shaped the very nature of jazz.

📷 Steven Baboun (), NativRoots Collective

10/06/2024

Creative Director: Davidson Toussaint Company: Nativroots Collective

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