Why Actress Amber Iman Calls ‘Goddess’ A Love Letter To Black Women In Theater [Exclusive] - Page 2

Beautiful Black Women On Full Display

Iman explained that she’s surrounded by beautiful women of all shapes, shades, and sizes, speaking to not only the intentionality of the show, but its true purpose – to remind Black women that they all are divine.

Inspired by the myth of Marimba, the goddess known for creating beautiful songs as a result of heartbreak, the stage production of this story features romance, the supernatural, and one’s quest toward becoming their most authentic self.

“Marimba is the goddess of music, who, in its simplest form, created music, which is no simple task, and she is in heaven in the spirit world, and her mother is the goddess of evil,” Iman further explained. “Her mother decides that it is time for her to walk into her purpose, to be the goddess of war, and she does not want that. She does not choose that for herself. In her frustration, she starts creating instruments and she sends these instruments down to Earth and sees the power of music on humans and says I don’t want to be up here any longer. I want to go down there. I want to live in the music.“

In the midst of Marimba leaving everything she knows, she falls in love with a young man named Omari, and the rest is history.