TYGAPAW is a Jamaican-born, Brooklyn-based artist and composer whose multidisciplinary practice spans music, performance, design, and visual art. Rooted in the intersections of gender, race, migration, and spirituality, they have spent over a decade shaping New York’s queer underground through subversive club spaces and their label Fake Accent, creating environments of belonging, resistance, and collective expression.
Alongside this community-driven work, TYGAPAW has brought their vision to major institutions and international stages, including BOFFO Performance Festival, Atonal, Bad Bonn Kilbi, and ADE. Their practice moves fluidly between club and contemporary art contexts, encompassing techno opera, installation, and live A/V performance, where they rework historical narratives and expand the cultural and political possibilities of techno as both sound and form.
A Parsons design alum, TYGAPAW has developed a singular approach to electronic music, combining complex hardware with deeply political storytelling. Following acclaimed releases like Get Free (2020) and Love Has Never Been A Popular Movement (2023), they signed to Tresor, releasing IMMIGRANT (2025) ahead of their forthcoming album Together You Gather All Power Applied Worldwide (2026).
Across their work, they centre Black queer and trans voices, building sonic and visual worlds that challenge dominant structures while positioning them as a defining force in contemporary techno and global club culture.