Age: 34
female
Kiandra Richardson was born and raised in Warner Robins, Georgia. As a child she studied the artistic styles of Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Beyonce and Aaliyah. By high school, she made waves in musicals such as Cats, Pippin, Beauty and the Beast, All Shook Up, Once On This Island, and more, winning local and state awards in the process. After obtaining her Bachelors degree in Fine Arts at SCAD: Savannah College of Art and Design, she started recording and cutting her teeth in the studio. A call from Bebe Winans changed everything though. As if bringing the story full circle, he asked Kiki to take on the role of Whitney Houston in Born For This: The BeBe Winans Story on stage. For the next two years, the show enchanted audiences in Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and Santa Monica. She stuck around in Los Angeles, relocating as of late 2017. Over the next year, Kiki accompanied Tyler, The Creator during a seminal NPR "Tiny Desk" segment and sang backup at Beyoncé's historic Coachella 2018 headlining set and joined the Queen on tour with JAY-Z for the next six months. 2019 saw her become a regular collaborator at Kanye West's "Sunday Service" around the country. She also landed the role of Yana on Empire and contributed the standout "Heaven" to Empire (Season 6, What Is Love) [Music from the TV Series]. Additionally, she kicked off a creative partnership with GRAMMY® Award-nominated producer and songwriter Kosine [Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Big Sean]. Together, they uncovered a soulful style amplified by her dynamic range with a subtle intimacy. "When we let go of our expectations and what society tells us we should do or be, there's an ease to flowing with life," she affirms. "Once you learn everything happens exactly how it's supposed to, life flows so much more beautifully."
Kiandra Richardson
Ma'at
for Ma'at in The Duat: Where Every Story Ends and Begins
Suggested by mr95
The Nile Chronicles culminates in the Duat itself — the Egyptian afterlife, shown in its full mythological complexity. Not a simple heaven or hell but a twelve-hour journey (mirroring Ra's night passage) through different realms, each with its own trials and guardians, culminating in the Hall of Two Truths where Anubis weighs the heart. The series functions as a final gathering of all the major divine beings who have appeared across the universe, seen from the perspective of the Duat they ultimately govern. Structured as twelve episodes representing the twelve hours of the Duat, each hour showing a different aspect of the afterlife: the Field of Reeds (Aaru) in its full beauty, the trials of the deceased, the gates guarded by specific divine beings, and the final judgment. The series' most important argument is the most Egyptian: death is not an ending but a transformation. The deceased become the Akh — the glorified spirit — who joins Ra's barque and participates in the cosmic order. The Duat is not a sentence. It is a completion.
