KariJay is a proud Pan Afrikan womxn who loves influencing change through music, education, travel, and spoken word poetry. ​ In 2019, she dropped her debut project , KARI as an independent music artist. However, as an already-established orator and poet, Kari Jay has won countless international and national oratorical and poetry competitions since the young age of 14 years old. ​ Kari Jay is the youngest poet in HERtory to be crowned the Mahogany Urban Poetry Series - Queen of the Mic. Kari was the opening Rising Star artist for AFROCHELLA 2019 in Ghana and since then has become a Ghana Representative artist for California