“There's not a school that teaches you how to mix well. Either you're born with it, or you're not." Pat “9th Wonder” Douthit
All of Talented Tenn. came to Memphis Music Foundation's Plug In event. Connecting creators with resources to reach that next level. Didn't know I was gonna get a sick show by none other than @9thwondermusic and @e_jones_music. So HOT literally and figuratively. Oh and The Phat Mack himself was in the building...8Ball.
"Our watersources are connected. we are all downstream from one another and it may be the thing that is most universal, our need for water. It's what we all have in common."
You may know that three invigorated and influential, in their own right, celebrities are currently taking a journey to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro to bring about awareness of the necessity for clean water for all. Kenna, a music producer, Lupe Fiasco, a hip hop artist, Jessica Biel, an actress, and a group of supporters, activists and volunteers are climbing a rigorous 19,340 feet for us. Santigold is also on the trek.
According to water.org 3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease and 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies, that is approximately one in eight people.
The journey called Summit on the Summit is being fully documented by each of the activists on the website summitonthesummit.com including videos, tweets and everyday people, like you and me, can sponsor a foot on the journey. I sponsored foot 665 and in turn PUR will provide clean water solution for one child for an entire year and a half. Thanks to me!!
So I was interviewed a few months back by a creative sister I adore, Intisar Abioto. I had no idea how it was going to be used or when. So this morning when I woke and saw this I cried and now I'm sharing. Support flierarts.com and please continue to support me.
IA: With The People Could Fly we like to talk to people about what dreaming, imagination, what possibility is.. Being in a place where you can feel your dream and bridge the seeming divide..between. For me flight is a symbol of so many things. What is your definition of flight?
SPF: I think flight.. It's so funny because last year I probably would have said something completely different. I recently became really spiritual. I think I got back to God. Last fall I got back to God - not religion, but spirituality. So, I would say flight to me is letting go and letting God, because there's a lot of unknown. There's a lot of fear. There's a lot of different things, that if you let reality or people control it, you won't do it. You won't jump. You won't leap. You won't even go to the edge to look. So, I think it's . . Flight is letting go and letting God. To read the full article and hear soundbites click here.
Dancers from Alvin Ailey's American Dance Theater recreating the painting "The Jazz Singers" (1934) by Archibald J. Motley, Jr. in "Uptown" which opens this week in NYC.
