Spoken Word Artists
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Adam Gregory Pergament
Website: www.flowpoetry.com
Location: Madison, WI USA
Adam Gregory Pergament, a finalist for Best Artist (Other) in the First Annual Madison WI Area Music Awards, is a Spoken Word performer who has bridged the gap between poetry and music. His dynamic style of Rock and Fire Flowpoetry combines rhythm, musicality, and a highly condensed depth of poetic language. His delivery on stage makes him one of the most unique and riveting performers on the Midwestern musical and artistic landscape. Adam speaks shamanically through poems of Asian Gods and Goddesses, tells Cowboy stories of the American Wild West and the Railroad Age, and poetically rants and rages about both Love and War. In 2006, he was appointed as the first ever "Poet-In-Residence" at The King Club, Madison, WI's premier live music dance club. He has performed over 500 times in the USA with Rock and Roll bands, Jazz musicians, and as a solo poet.
His current projects include Venice Gas House Trolley (a "Beat Freak" trio consisting of voice, double bass, and percussion) and Rock and Fire Flowpoetry (spoken word with vocal effects, loops, guitar and electric bass). Over the past two years, he led and taught Chime Collective Big Band weekly improvised free flow musical and poetic workshops at The Madison WI Center For Creative And Cultural Arts. In previous incarnations, Adam has played catcher for the University of Minnesota Baseball team, spent five years backpacking throughout Asia and India, earned a Master of Arts Degree in Languages and Cultures of Asia and studied for seven years in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Buddhist Studies Ph.D program. He holds a black belt in Kendo. He has performed with such Jazz notables as Hanah Jon Taylor (Chicago’s Artists For The Advancement of Creative Music) and Vincent Davis (Roscoe Mitchell Quartet). He has opened shows for The Steve Kimock Band, Cornmeal, Groovatron, Buck 65, and Claude Coleman, Jr of Ween. He has also appeared on festival billings with The Jerry Garcia Band and
April Berton
Website: www.archive.org/details/ers705
Location: Earth (mainly North America)
Modern sound explorer.
Audrey Michelle
Website: www.myspace.com/audreyliles
Location: Tampa Florida
I am attitude and confidence. I slice with pure wit. I know what I want from life and I work to obtain it. I think deep and I speak my thoughts. My son is my world. I love with a heart of gold. I hurt when I’m broken. I continuously seek more from life. I am sexy and I am beautiful. I am a continuous mystery. I am a woman.
Award the poet
Website: www.myspace.com/awardyourself
Location: Alabama
He's been a poet since he could write and spoken word artist since 2000, Award has concentrated in efforts into promoting spoken word and slam in his home, Alabama, and surrounding states. He has published two poetry books "Paradox Lost" and "The Poem or the Pistol" as well as an urban novella "The Children of Confusion". Even though his efforts are focused in the Southeastern United States he does travel and has many plans to add to his touring nation and worldwide. Growing in God, faith, spirit, and spoken word are his goals.
Bren Petrakos
Website: storiesfromtheinsideedge.com
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007, Published in various Anthologies & Publications Including, Poetic Divesity, Little Joy Anthologies 1 &2, Really Big Show Anthologies 2&3, "Stories From The Insided Edge: Flash FictionCollection Published by Sybartic Press 2007
Che Christ
Website: strangemedicine.org
Location: here and now
I speak because my voice is all that I have left.
Common
Website: www.common-music.com
Location: Undisclosed
Common is a Chicago-based hip hop artist known for lyrics that focus on love and spirituality. His music falls under the socially conscious subgenre of hip hop. Though he has continued to maintain a significant underground following, in recent years he also has gained notable mainstream success. His major-label debut Like Water for Chocolate received critical acclaim and some commercial success, and his latest album Be, which features nine tracks produced by Kanye West, has sold 800,000 copies and was nominated in the 2006 Grammy Awards for Best Rap Album.
cris nyne
Website: skippy2punch.com
Location: anywhere
I'm 29 years old. I've been writing since I was 16... I'm very cofortable with my craft and have my own style. Spent the last 11 years in NYC, creeping through the streets, absorbing information and inspiration. I've been a feature at the Bowery Poetry Club 2 years straight for the best of the L.E.S celebration, read for the Green party in Brooklyn (no affiliation to any political party, though...all I know is that our current president is the grandson of a nazi supporter), Nuyourican cafe (until it became a putrid petri dish for repetition)along with many one man shows in art galleries and bars throughout NY & NJ. I now travel the country looking to collaborate with artists and musicians who actually give a shit about the state of affairs in which we've been given. This is my life. I quit a very comfortable job to be a lyrical nomad. I moved out of an amazing and cheap artist loft to hit the road and spread the word. I'm a visual artist as well but would like to promote my writing as visual art. I'm a student of syllable structure creating metaphloral bouquets and arrangements.
Erykah Badu
Website: www.erykah-badu.com
Location: Undisclosed
Erykah Badu is a neo-soul R&B/hip hop artist whose work crosses over into jazz. Influenced early on by singers such as Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Chaka Khan, (her all-time favorite artist), Erykah was taking to the local radio microphones, freestyling on the air by the age of 14.
Gijs ter Haar
Website: www.dichtbijgijs.web-log.nl
Location: Netherlands
Started writing poetry in 1992, first performance in 1995. Since then 4 books were published, the latest including a 48 minutes audio CD of spoken word with different musicians. I started slamming in 2001, at this point I am the poet with more slamvictories than any other slammer in Europe, 28 as I speak on 13-nov-2007. I also organise and host the Amersfoort Poetry Slam, SLAMersfoort, since 2003 and organise poetry performance events for different Dutch organisations.