In response to what is developing around the world and within all of us, I poetically write a letter to my estranged father describing the current situation we are in with as well as the #IdleNoMore movement.
Idle No More grassroots Founders and Organizers from across Canada, in Solidarity with Common Causes - a new initiative bringing together social justice, environmental, labour and other Activist Groups…
UNITED we are planning IDLE NO MORE WORLD DAY OF ACTION on January 28th, 2013 #J28.
This day of action will peacefully protest attacks on Democracy, Indigenous Sovereignty, Human Rights and Environmental Protections when Canadian MPs return to the House of Commons on January 28th. As a grassroots movement, clearly no political organization speaks for Idle No More. This movement is of the people… For The People
Detroit Music Producer / Artist / Stereo Crew Member / Activist / Xicano / Anishnabe / Documentary Film Maker / Hip Hop Educator / MSU Alumni & ODPhi-AB
My artistry begins with music and I played violin as a kid, learned jazz as a teenager, and been making beats since my first heart beat into the Yepez Familia.
Grew up on the Southwest side of Detroit, I'm from Xicano and Ojibwe cultures by the ways of Monterrey, Nuevo León & Walpole Island First Nations Great Lakes peoples. Played the trumpet with a jazz ensemble through out my teen years traveling the city. Started breaking, writing, looping, and rapping through out high school. Made instrumentals as a hobby at Michigan State University studying under the Telecommunication Information Studies & Digital Media Arts Program & Music Theory at the music college. After graduating from MSU I recently started focusing on a multimedia arts path doing musical & visual independent art.
I am skilled in Video Production. Photography. Cinematography. Audio Production & Sound Design. Lighting Effects & Design. Project Coordinating. Recording Engineering. Composing & Arranging. Documentary Film Making.
Not only do I believe music is medicine, I believe it's a powerful expression that can be used for change & elevation and I am a voice for my people through my art.
