After graduating, Imani left Texas to attend Columbia College Chicago where she obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Voice as well as a double minor in environmental science and management. While in Chicago she was named a Luminarts Cultural Foundation Fellow. It was in Chicago where Imani met Jackson Shepard, a fellow CCC student, and soon after joined his band, Human Bloom. Human Bloom has since performed extensively and released singles and an album that have gained lots of traction in the experimental/pop-fusion listening spheres, and are set to be releasing more music later in 2025. In Chicago Imani performed at the legendary Jazz Showcase, The Green Mill, Buddy Guy’s, Sleeping Village, Subterranean and others, becoming a deeply rooted part of the Chicago music scene.

Imani is currently based in New York City, having graduated the Manhattan School of Music with a master’s degree in Jazz Voice in the spring of 2021. At MSM she was under the amazing tutelage of Stefon Harris, Jean Baylor, Buster Williams, Marc Cary, Jo Lawry, Theo Bleckman, Ingrid Jenson, and Damien Sneed. Since moving to New York just a few months before the global shutdown, Imani has been able to sing on stages such as the world famous Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Smalls Jazz Club, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Clements Place, The Schomburg Center in Harlem, The Joyce Theater, The Jazz Club and more. Rousselle’s talents have taken her across the globe, most recently as the feature vocalist in the tour of SW!NG OUT spearheaded by tap dance phenom Caleb Teicher, and in LaTasha Barnes’ Bessie winning production of The Jazz Continuum. She has also performed alongside great musicians including Stefon Harris, Casey Benjamin, Marc Carey, Jaleel Shaw, Cory Henry, Ben Williams, Roger Boykin, Jon Thomas, Jillian Grace, Gabby Garo, and Domo Branch. Imani is now working toward the completion of several music and interdisciplinary projects, and is excited to continue performing and sharing in a world with renewed fervor for connection and creation.