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- Queen Sheba: Atlanta based Spoken-Soul-Hip Rock-Alternative-Word-Genius.
The Queen currently has 3 music videos, 5 albums including the current release Domino Affect available on iTunes and in stores nationwide.
Music by Sheba can be heard on Atlanta’s 103.3, 89.3 and 88.5. Sheba is a 2007 National Poetry Slam Champion, the reigning Red Bull Word Clash champion, and currently runs “Say What?!?” a national collegiate performance Word-Shop driven by Red Bull.
She has been a guest on and/or seen in/on: 106 & Park, VH-1, The Apollo, Spoken, Spit! A feature length film about Spoken Word and any bootleg late-night cable station.
Toured: West Africa, Europe, Cuba, Canada and any coffee house to coliseum in the US. Co-founder of Akoben (Ah-Koe-Been) Int’l Music and Poetry Festival. Member of: Face Book!, The Atlanta Poets Union, Mothers Against the War, Fair Trade and National Association for Women. She currently runs several poetry slams and readings in Atlanta, GA.
Performed with/opened for: over 100 colleges and universities, Alicia Keys, Louis Farrakan, Kanye West, The Roots, Floetry, Music Soul Child and 14 gazillion others. Published in: Essence, is a NAACP Image Award Nominee for works in the Anthology Home Girls Make Some Noise, S. Florida University Urban Griot (Gree-O), Portfolio Magazine, The Syracuse University Women in Hip-Hop, National Featured Poet for Rolling Out magazine.
Taught/Teaches; in over 100 colleges and universities including Poet in Residence at U of Ill (Urbana) and the London Academy for Urban Development in London England.
Key Note Speaker for: 12 Take Back the Night Campus vigils, Domestic Violence, AIDS awareness for young adults and the National Women in Hip-Hop conference.
Favorite Food Group: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice-cream.
Contact Queen Sheba directly:
www.myspace.com/thequeensheba www.oyaxclusive.com www.queensheba.org
757 449 0068c 770 629 5220 office
Represented by: Tracey Wiggs
@ Just Wiggin Entertainment
juswign@comcast.net
301.221.4540
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