Monday, January 25, 2010

It's the Beatbox!

I interviewed progressive hip hop artists Christylez Bacon, who has been nominated for a Grammy, for my Examiner.com blog. Mr. Bacon beatboxes and also plays the guitar and spoons. He is very talented and also hilarious, but I didn't quite get all of that into the post and wrote it in a rather straightforward way. His Grammy nomination is for his collaboration on a children's album, while the music he does on his own is more grown-up.

He asked me what I'd done for MLK Weekend and I said I was mostly sick, but I did manage to get to the "Let Freedom Ring" MLK Celebration featuring India.Arie at the Kennedy Center. First he suggested that I go to Soul Vegetarian and get some drink with lemon, ginger and echinacea and then he asked if India Arie had a woman from Ivory Coast with her. Apparently, he had recently run into them and pronounced India Arie to be very cool.

DC native Christylez Bacon Nominated for a Grammy

3 comments:

Keri said...

Just found a great deal! People interested in hearing more of Cathy & Marcy's music with Christylez Bacon from "Banjo to Beatbox" - all merchandise is 25% off! www.banjotobeatbox.com

inotherwordz said...

Thanks, Keri :-)

Keri said...

No problem! The deal is still going on in case people are still interested in getting the 25% off.