PRONOUNCED RE-ME-DY OR RIM-IDI.

RIMIDI IS A MIAMI NATIVE AND AN INNOVATIVE STORYTELLER WHO QUIT HER JOB AS A FULL-TIME PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER TO PURSUE HER DREAM AS A CREATIVE AND BUSINESS WOMAN FULL TIME. MORE IMPORTANTLY, SHE INSISTED ON CREATING A LIFE CONDUCIVE TO ALLOWING HER TO FOCUS ON HER CHILDREN’S DEVELOPMENT AS WELL AS HER OWN. HEALTHY LIVING THAT SCOPES BEYOND THE PHYSICAL BODY AND IS EXTENDED TO THE SPIRITUAL, MENTAL AND PROSPEROUS REALMS BECAME HER FOCUS. MOST IMPORTANTLY, HER DESIRE GREW TO SHARE THIS LOVE AMONGST THE WORLD AROUND HER THROUGH EXISTENCE. BORN AS SHAWNNETTE LONGLEY, RIMIDI HAS BEEN MAKING WAVES IN AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD SINCE THE BEGINNING OF HER JOURNEY. RIMIDI IS A CREATOR AND MYSTIC, MULTIFACETED IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC, EDUCATION, BUSINESS AND WELLNESS. SHE USES DIFFERENT FORMS OF ART AS A WAY TO EXPRESS HERSELF AND THE THINGS THAT SHE IS MOST PASSIONATE ABOUT, MOSTLY THROUGH AND AT THE CUTTING EDGE OF EXPERIMENTAL ALTERNATIVE SOUL MUSIC AND FILM PROJECTS. EVERYTHING THAT SHE DOES IS ESSENTIALLY TO EXPRESS HER AUTHENTIC SELF IN HOPES OF INSPIRING OTHERS TO DO THE SAME. RIMIDI IS KNOWN FOR HER LYRICAL REALISM AND CHARISMATIC DELIVERY. WHEN EXPERIENCING RIMIDI, THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT SHE INDEED CREATES A WORLD AND EXPERIENCE FOR HER FANS KNOWN AS “FIND YOUR RIMIDI”, PERFORMING ON VOCALS AND BASS GUITAR WITH BANDMATES DANIELLE “DANNY” MORRISON (LEAD BASS), RODERICK “BIG ROD 305” WILLIAMS (DRUMS) AND JEFFREY ALTIDOR (GUITAR). SOME MAY SAY THAT AN EXPERIENCE WITH RIMIDI, WHETHER THROUGH MUSIC, FILM OR PERSONAL INTERACTION, IS LIKE AN UNORTHODOX CHURCH AND ONE THEY WERE UNAWARE THEY NEEDED. THRIVING AT THE INTERSECTION OF SOUL GRUNGE, ANCESTRAL RITUALS AND NEW AGE SOUND, TOGETHER THEY ARE KNOWN AS THE BAND, "RIMIDI".  

EMOTION LIES AT THE CORE OF RIMIDI’S MUSICAL JOURNEY AND BEING, APPARENT IN HER CANDID, HEARTFELT LYRICS AND COLORFUL SOUND. EVEN WHEN SHE SPEAKS, THIS IS WHAT SHE EXUDES. SHE DRAWS INFLUENCE FROM MEMORIES OF GROWING UP IN A HOUSEHOLD THAT SAW NO BOUNDARIES BETWEEN GENRES: SADE, ANITA BAKER, AND BOOTSY COLLINS WERE AT HOME ALONGSIDE THE LIKES OF OTHERS LIKE GEORGE MICHAELS, MICHAEL JACKSON AND PRINCE IN A PERPETUAL SOUNDTRACK THAT SHAPED HER CHILDHOOD. RIMIDI SHOWED AN EARLY TALENT FOR WRITING, FILLING NOTEBOOKS WITH LYRICS AND INTUITIVE WORDPLAY AS EARLY AS SHE COULD WRITE, FOUNDING A GIRL GROUP AT HER HIGH SCHOOL, FOR WHICH SHE COMPOSED MOST OF THE SONGS. WHEN HER MOTHER GAVE RIMIDI HER FIRST KARAOKE MACHINE, HER PATH AS AN ARTIST BECAME CLEAR; ALTHOUGH SINCE, HER PATH HAS EXPANDED BEYOND THE WORLD OF MUSIC INTO EXPLORING ONE’S CONNECTION WITH SELF AND THE I AM.