Performatist
    Electronic

    Quiet Light, Ari

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    Saturday, May 9, 2026

    7:00 PM

    Public Records

    Gowanus, Brooklyn

    Scheduled

    About This Event

    Courtney Shanade Salter, known professionally as Ari Lennox, is an R&B singer-songwriter from Washington, D.C. Signed to J. Cole's Dreamville in 2015 as the label's first female artist, she gained attention after the 2016 EP Pho, contributed an uncredited vocal to Cole's "Change," and released the full-length Shea Butter Baby in 2019 to positive critical and commercial response. She is billed as Quiet Light, Ari at Public Records.

    About the Artist

    Ari

    Ari

    pop

    Ari is the stage name of Courtney Shanade Salter, a Washington, D.C.–raised singer and songwriter whose work moves between R&B and pop, often folding electronic textures into a vocal-forward approach. After early independent releases, she joined J.