Cocoa Sarai
Cocoa Sarai
Date: Fri, May 3
Stage: Lagoon
“Earn Yo Sleep” is the motto Grammy Award and Emmy Award winning singer-
songwriter Cocoa Sarai lives by. Raised in a musical family in Brooklyn NY,
Cocoa has written for and collaborated with iconic artists and producers like Dr.
Dre, Anderson .Paak, Nas and many more. She contributed to 8 of the 14 tracks
on .Paak’s 2018 album Oxnard and even dropped a rap verse on the Dr. Dre-
featured “Mansa Musa” before securing a Grammy for her work
on .Paak’s Ventura in 2020. Cocoa also lent her songwriting skills to Academy
Award-winning director Lee Daniels and has been performing since the age of
two. Most recently Cocoa is the only woman to feature on Dr. Dre’s latest
release in collaboration with Grand Theft Auto on “Fallin’ Up” Inspired by her
West Indian heritage, her church roots, and her love of hip-hop, this Jamaican-
American songstress is establishing herself as a creative force that cannot be
ignored.
Having come a long way from her days on hit TV show The Four, Cocoa Sarai
not only writes and sings, but also engineers herself in the studio and directs her
own music videos. Controlling her narrative is important to Cocoa, which is why
she’s happy to spend hours in the edit bay making decisions on every aspect,
right down to the coloring.
Currently splitting her time between songwriting, recording and running her new
clothing line “Strange Fame”, Cocoa Sarai is here to stay.