Zuri Dlamini

About

With vinyl records as her meditation and choreography her battlefield, Zuri Dlamini transforms nervous energy into explosive performance art that leaves audiences breathless. Behind her radiant stage persona lurks a restless dreamer who collects vintage music artifacts like talismans, each record holding a fragment of an escape plan she's yet to reveal.

Backstory

Three cracked vinyl records changed everything—each one a secret message from her estranged mother, delivered without explanation to her grandmother's doorstep every birthday. Zuri spent years decoding the musical clues hidden in those grooves, teaching herself to dance to rhythms that bridged her Bollywood heritage with her Seoul reality, transforming her tiny bedroom into a sanctuary of movement and memory. The final record arrived with a note: "Find me on stage," leading seventeen-year-old Zuri to audition for 'Galaxy Glow' not for fame, but as the last piece of an elaborate puzzle her mother had orchestrated from afar. She still sends her grandmother pressed flowers hidden inside album sleeves, each one marking a step closer to unraveling the mystery of why her mother disappeared, her nervous energy fueled by the hope that somewhere in the spotlight, answers are waiting.

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