FLINT, MI -- An accomplished Flint tap dancer and musician is nominated for an Independent Music Award, and next month, she will pay tribute to a legendary wordsmith.

On Thursday, March 26, Alexandria "Brinae Ali" Bradley's debut project, "Destination Forever: Volume 1," was announced as a nominee for the Independent Music Awards. The album is nominated under the Urban EP category.

The 14th Independent Music Awards have nominations in more than 80 categories, from nearly 30 countries. Thousands of submissions were released during the program's eligibility period, between June 2013 and December 2014.

Click here to see the full list of nominees, and a list of influential artist and industry judges.

Judges will choose awards, and fans can also vote for their favorite nominees for the Vox Pop Jukebox, the fan-determined portion of the IMAs, until Friday, July 13. Click here and register to vote for Bradley.

"There are a lot of new listeners and new opportunities that are going to fly out of there, so I'm excited," Bradley said in a phone call with The Flint Journal.

Bradley has a busy month ahead. On April 10, 11 and 17, she will present a 20-minute tribute piece to James Baldwin, commissioned by Harlem Stage's E-Moves series.

She explains that E-Moves usually works with choreographers who have worked with previous dance companies before breaking out on their own. That applies to Bradley:After learning from her father, Tapology founder Bruce Bradley, she became a member of the lauded tap dancer Savion Glover's company Ti Dii. She has also performed in the off-Broadway show "Stomp," in the Wynton Marsalis-directed "Cotton Club Parade," and other shows around the world.

This year, E-Moves will pay homage to jazz singer and songwriter Billie Holiday and James Baldwin, an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet and social critic.

For her tribute to Baldwin, Bradley is collaborating with musicians, visual artists, photographers and dancers in what she describes as an "afro-futuristic" project. As a gay black man, Baldwin provided a lot of commentary about racial and sexual distinctions in the mid-20th century. She plans to use the project, called "Black Matter" -- a reference to the "Black Lives Matter" movement against police brutality, and to dark matter, the idea of matter that can't be seen with telescopes -- to speak on black history, systemic racism, and Flint's water crisis.

"I'm running wild with my imagination with this one," she said. "I'm not creating something based on the text of a book or a play he wrote. I'm using him as a source of inspiration, to speak on things that I feel still exist today, and showing a lot of the similarities to struggles that we're still going through."

She has been building on these concepts for over 15 years, and plans to use this as a chance to bring the ideas to life. Bradley said the project will use a collection of music from historic black musicians -- Dizzy Gillespie's "Kush," Lauryn Hill's "Black Rage," Louis Armstrong's version of the black spiritual "Go Down Moses," Meshell Ndegeocello's "Aquarium," and Fela Kuti's "Water No Get Enemy" -- along with underwater photos from Flint photographer Derico Cooper.

Bradley is traveling to Russia in May with a group of tap dancers to represent jazz and tap culture to celebrate National Tap Dance Day in the cities of Moscow and Samara.