One day before our show in Lund, Sweden we were all hanging in Angie’s room when she pulled out her laptop and began to show us videos from her days as Angie B… a rapper/singer with the group “The Sequence”. It’s sad to me because this was one of the first female rap groups, yet they are almost never mentioned when conversations of hip hop and history take place. They were right there along with the Sugar Hill Gang but get no love!
Check out the vid and youtube “The Sequence”.
Okay, this is a catch up post!!!
We had to travel from Lund, Sweden to Gothenburg. It was only about a 2 hour’s drive, but this is a great opportunity for me to show you the tour bus that has become my second home!
My New Boss - Angie Stone - Photo by Dave Ellis
Hey guys! For those of you that don’t know I’ve recently joined Angie Stone’s band and I have been doing shows with her all over the US. It’s been a great experience and as of Monday 02/22/10, it’ll become an experience that we’ll take over seas to Europe! We’ll be visiting Sweden, London, Norway, France, and Poland over a three week period.
I’m very excited about this opportunity and another chance to see parts of the world that I’ve only seen in books or heard about in the movies! As usual, I’ll try to blog as much as possible and post as many pictures as I can. This will be a great adventure! Stay tuned!
People have been asking me what was up with my band AFAR. We’ve taken a bit of a hiatus and everyone has pursued other professional goals for a while. We recently came back together and decided that we would like to tour again as “AFAR”. The ball’s in motion and we should find out pretty soon if we’ll be able to tour for Jazz At Lincoln Center’s The Rhythm Road Project.
We Really hope that things work out so that we can be a part of the program again. They have given us some incredible opportunities and we are eternally grateful. Keep your eyes open for information concerning the band!
AFAR - Detox, RJJazz, Frito, and JayeBerry
This is an AFAR throwback video. We were in Valencia, Venezuela and we had just finished the show. Anybody that knows Jahah knows that he’s a Sneaker Pimp. Here’s his ode to buying shows backed by me and BlackFist… Dinero was making his cinematographic debut…
I guess this is it! AFAR had a really great tour in South America. We met so many great and interesting people and had a chance to share experiences that have become lifelong memories. On behalf of AFAR, I would like to thank Jazz at Lincoln Center and their incredible team – Alexis, Monak and Susan, The United States Department of State, The offices of the Consulate General in every country that we visited, our local embassy officials, our hosts in each city, the embassy drivers, the hotel staff in all the hotels, the chefs in the restaurants, the pilots of the 17 planes we were one, the airline stewardesses, the baggage handlers, the ticket agents – especially the ones that didn’t charge us overweight!, and all the many people we just happened to either bump into or meet that made our time in South America wonderful!!!
Here are the last few pictures from after our Hutuz performance:
AFAR and the producers of the Hutuz festival:
TV interview with MTV Brazil:
Part of the team that took excellent care of us in Rio, Victor Tamm and Anna Vianna – We miss you guys!!
AFAR has a lot of stuff brewing in 2007! Keep checking us out!!
We’ve had a lot of programmed events the last couple of days here in
The main reason that we were able to be here in
CUFA is a self-sufficient organization that has made so many tremendous strides in the community that the Department of Labor and Tourism partners with them to provide programs and training in Break Dancing, Grafitti, Basketball (street ball), DJ’ing, Audiovisual and Theater.
Well everyone, it looks like we’ve made it to our last stop on the tour. I couldn’t think of a better way to end a great tour than in Rio! This is a place that I’ve heard so much about and it’s great to finally be here. We arrived Sunday evening and everyone was so tired that we just got dinner and called a night.
Mondays are days off for us, so we decided to get some sightseeing in. As we were riding from the airport our host, Victor Tamm, suggested that we at least check out two of the city’s attractions – Cristo Redenter (Christ the Redeemer) and Sugarloaf. We took him up on his offer and had a great time! Here are some pics from the day!
Oh wait! Before we begin. I was about to brush my teeth and saw this bottle of water:
So uh, you replace the comma with a period, divide the number by about 1.6 or so (because the dollar is continuing to weaken), and there you have it!…. an $11.04 bottle of water! I later found out that we are staying in arguably the best hotel in Rio.
Since it was night when we arrived, I couldn’t really see the area that we were staying in. I could smell and hear the water but I couldn’t see it. When I woke up I was able to see this from my hotel room:
Check out the vid from a perforamance in Santa Cruz. We solicited some audience participation on this one!
You know,
These are the young ladies that organized our coming and all of the events here in
I know I have a very interesting name, but it baffles me sometime how people screw up the spelling of it. I was told that the press had a copy of our press release, yet my name was still misspelled as “Demonsterius”:
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