Tamar-kali has shared stages with artists such as, The Roots, Paramore, Raphael Saadiq, Vijay Iyer, and Me’shell Ndegeocello. 2017 marked Tamar-kali’s debut as a film score composer, scoring Dee Rees’ Oscar nominated and critically acclaimed film, MUDBOUND. Her score led her to be selected by The Hollywood Reporter to appear in the highly coveted Composer Roundtable, making history as the first person of color to appear in the article. To further solidify the score’s success and importance, Indiewire listed the composition as one of the Top 25 Film Scores of the 21st Century and she was awarded Discovery of the Year by the World Soundtrack Academy Awards, where she will be invited to return in 2019 to performed her award-winning score from MUDBOUND.