Lachi LIVE at Ki Smith Gallery

As a globally touring performer, charting recording artist and award-winning music executive, Lachi—born legally blind—uses her compelling art, storytelling, and community building to amplify Disability Culture, identity and pride to mainstream discussion. From walking the New York Fashion Week runways with a bejeweled cane to belting ballads on the TEDx stage, Lachi incorporates her disability identity into all aspects of her art, and art into all aspects of her advocacy. Named a USA Today Woman of the Year, an ADCOLOR Innovator and included on both the Billboard Pride list and Forbes Accessibility 100, Lachi’s cultural activism has landed her spots on national ads and TEDx stages, discussions with the White House, and the BBC, and features in People, TIME Magazine, Good Morning America and the New York Times.

Lachi is Founder of the U.N.-recognized organization RAMPD (Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities), which—through collaborations with firms like Netflix, Live…