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and victory over depression with “the
crazy ones” to ignite them toward their
most sparktacular life.
We recently had the opportunity to interview Minista Jazz and discuss her incredible journey.
MMIA: We know you’ve been a hair
stylist, and you’ve toured with Madonna
and Miley Cyrus a couple of times but
what are you doing right now?
Minista: Right now I’m wrapping up on
my album that’s coming out. It is an affirmation, metaphysical lesson slash my
love of hip hop album. We’re wrapping
it up right now and it should be out this
fall. I’ve been doing hair ever since I was
five years old and I’ve been licensed ever
since I was 17. I feel like I’ve reached the
success I needed to each as a hair stylist and that platform has allowed me to
learn so many lessons, travel the world,
and be able to bring a brand new inspiration, with credibility, to what it is that I’m
doing now. It’s easy for me to just do hair
at this point but spirit spoke to me and
said that there is so much more and such
a huger influence that I get to be a part of
and to me it comes through music and it
comes through speaking. That’s what I’ve
dedicated myself to now.

Hardship is no stranger to Minista Jazz
as a suicide survivor. Growing up the
oldest of three, with 2 disabled parents,
Minista Jazz cultivated a toughness that
later on in life gave her the strength to
triumph homelessness, divorce, single
parenthood, and entrepreneurship. This
unapologetic metaphysical minister is
most noted for winning $100,000 on
Oxygen reality TV show, Hair Battle
Spectacular and consequently touring the
world 3 times as a hairstylist on Madonna
and Miley Cyrus tours. Now, as a talk
radio host and speaker/performer,
Minista Jazz, known as Super Spark