Spoken words with original music

5 MP3 Songs
SPOKEN WORD: Poetry, URBAN/R&B: Soul



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Biography for Navigator born as Michael T. Council in Mississippi, December 18th, at the age of five realized that I was gifted with the power of the spoken word. At my kindergarten graduation ceremony, I stunned the audience with the prolific speech, "Happiest Child Alive". I was a student athlete in track and basketball; I played in the school band for several years playing different drums. I grew up in Mississippi and graduated from Broad Street High School in Shelby, Mississippi. I joined the United States Army in 1987. I was stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma after basic training. I had a tour in Europe, I was a member of the special weapons team for my unit that built nuclear rounds. June of 1990 would soon become a year of spoken words as my field artillery unit was deployed to the Persian Gulf for a tour of duty. Desert Storm. "I was scared and writing so many letters back home to family and friends" including the local newspapers. This is where I started to improve on my craft of writing spoken words. I would write poems about the war and the conditions in which we had to survive under the heat and just living the life of a soldier you know "That Man". I was a young soldier but didn't think about what I was doing at the time just a job out of high school. After the war, I had a brief tour in Europe. My destiny guided me to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and from the flatlands of the Mississippi Delta to Atlanta, Georgia where I now live. I have a background in fashion marketing and fashion modeling experience. My objective is to express the spoken word through positive dialogue giving a message so open and clear that you understand the message. My name Navigator comes from my male line Navigator Sportswear since the early 90's. I am the PoetryDJ(poetrydj.com) and my goal is to open your mind from a poet's prospective and grace your audiences with music and spoken words that when you listen to it, it empowers, motivates, educates you as a listener. I've done shows throughout the southern region, I loved Dejangos, Apache Cafe and other venues in Atlanta. I give much thanks to all the poets and musical talents that have open doors to present a expression through music and I thank you for the opportunity to introduce my spoken words with original music to your audiences. Welcome to the Levels of Fashion, level one is "Cotton". Special considerations go to Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes,Gill Scott Heron, Floetry, Queen Poets and The Last Poets.