Corporate Events & Galas
For the event chair with a run of show, a full room, and no interest in explaining afterward why the entertainment missed the moment.
The invitations worked. The tables are set. The program is timed to the minute. Then the performance begins and the room never turns toward it. For an event chair or planner, that is the risk: not a visible failure, but a room that never quite arrives.
A gala cannot recover its energy through another slide or another announcement. If the voice is too small for the moment, or too busy to serve it, the event starts to feel assembled instead of directed.
Tiyane brings gospel training and a wide range, then filters both through the phrasing of 1990s and 2000s R&B. That combination gives planners an instrument with reach and a musical language the room can recognize.
Tiyane’s roots begin in a Brooklyn church and continue at her denomination’s headquarters church in Durham. She is an alum of NCCU and is well known throughout Durham for her distinctive voice and range. The authority is in the instrument and in the city that knows it.
The strongest note is not always the right note. Tiyane’s R&B sensibility lives in the choices around the power: when to open the sound, when to pull it close, and when to let the room come to the song.
The program reaches the performance. Heads lift. The room gets quiet for the right reason, then gives the moment back when the final line resolves. The event feels intentional because the voice understood its job inside the larger night.
Use the booking form to share the date, location, audience, event format, performance window, and the role the music needs to play. The clearer the brief, the faster the conversation can move to fit and production.
Questions
The booking lane is built for corporate events and galas. Send the event format, audience, location, and the performance role in the program for review.
TODO: Confirm repertoire customization, brand-content restrictions, and the process for approving program selections.
TODO: Confirm microphone, monitor, front-of-house, stage, soundcheck, lighting, and backline requirements.
Yes. Tiyane is based in Durham and accepts corporate inquiries across the Triangle and North Carolina, as well as regional and national bookings. Travel fees, lodging, and other event-specific terms are reviewed during the booking conversation.
TODO: Confirm standard contracting, deposit, planning, and production deadlines.