Naia Kete, like so a lot of musicians, had her lifetime turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtually overnight, Kete’s chaotic schedule of live shows as a solo artist and with her reggae band Say Serious was canceled, eliminating her key supply of income. So when she was approached by Artists at Function, a new initiative that puts artists on a payroll to produce and start courses in their communities, Kete jumped at the likelihood. “Just the plan that there’s an corporation that’s battling on behalf of obtaining artists a living wage was something that I required to be a portion of,” she said. “Just valuing artwork in that…