s3e31 Octobe 16, 2025
Pyeng Threadgill
vocalist, composer, author, video artist, and voice and movement teacher
Pyeng Threadgill is an American vocalist, composer, author, video artist, and voice and movement teacher. With a deep belief in the transformative power of music and movement, she creates what she calls New Porch Music. Drawing on the musical traditions of the African Diaspora—from Black American Folk and Soul to Jazz and improvisation—Pyeng uses her Porch Sessions to foster connected conversations, empowering audiences to reflect on their own life stories and identities for healing and growth.
As a recording artist, composer and bandleader Pyeng has recorded 4 solo albums and appeared as a guest on 5 compilations. The most recent of her projects, Head Full of Hair, Heart Full of Song, was created as both an album and multimedia project. It shines a light on hair, adornment and ancestry and the political as well as spiritual implications of race, hair and identity. Head Full of Hair is a surround sound multi-media experience intended to be a digital talisman for young Black women/nonbinary people to use as they navigate moving through the world.
