Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Top Boston Poet

Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo is amongst the Top Poets in Boston and the Nation for that matter. Nominated for her 2nd New England Urban Music Award for Best Spoken Word Female, Iyeoka was recently asked to be involved in a upcoming Global Hip-Hop music compilation project produced by Notable Productions president and producer Daniel Cantor.

The project is a high contender to be used in the next instillation of the Red Hot + Riot, a series of music compilation projects from the Red Hot Organization to be used as a fund-raising tool for AIDS awareness efforts.

A previous project from the Red Hot Organization was Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti) The album, which takes inspiration from the late Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, was released by MCA on October 15, 2002 and featured more than three dozen artists on a score of tracks.

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