Neema has performed in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America, and has had the great honour of performing for the XIVth Dalai Lama and the Archbishop Desmond Tutu. She studied opera at the University of British Columbia, where she received both a Bachelor and Master of Music. In recent years, Neema has specialized in contemporary projects in opera, music theatre, and experimental theatre.
I had spent most of my life singing as a white person. If I was performing in a Mozart opera, I would pretend I was the white person who would have been that character. Everything was two steps removed from me.