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Leola

formally known as an artist

About Me

vocalist - turned - portratist and muralist ... ex-lyricist, perfectionist, mad urbanist ... get tha jist??? yo, it's a list: ... Rennaissance-a-sist; dance with a twist, mics in my midst, plus paintin this to share my bliss: creationist; still writing this...still writing this...still writing this
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My Interests

jazz songs; i take requests. also: Tape, Dancing (ballet and congolese), Music, Painting, Drawing, drawing with paint, grids. Teaching, Learning, Laughing, Chilling, Profiling...and to my surprise, i am currently most fascinated by the color magenta.

I'd like to meet:

Art dealers -- represent a Brooklyn Queen.

Anyone affiliated with Damon Dash Music Group, Sizzla, or BET - you got my mural all up in Sizzla's video. What do I get?

See Video

Warning: This Video is Mad Pixelated

Music:

jazz, reggae, classic house & hip hop. nas, aliyah, good beats, thom yorke, new Stevie Wonder, old jazz vocals (Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughn, Billie H., Ella, Peggy Lee, etc), steel pulse, dope urban beats, bjork, Bilal, N'dambi, Kendra, Dwele, Sizzla, I loves all my new york heads making it happen right here...

Movies:

rize, inconvenient truth, tony takitani, superfly, ghostbusters, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, fast and the furious, bend it like beckham, little miss sunshine,

Television:

I boycotted television for about ten years (hence the pretty trash can), but now i watch Six Feet Under, America's Next Top Model, Veronica Mars, and law & order.

Books:

Prescriptions for Nutritional Healing, Anatomy Coloring Book, Elements of Style, The Artist's Way, Through Survivor's Eyes, You Can Negotiate Anything, Poisonwood Bible, The Alchemist, Strange Fruit, Lush Life, Sketches and Poetry by Leola Volumes I - LXVIV

Heroes:

ancestors: Grandma n Grandpa, and of course Grandmommy.

living: Granddad (go 'head playa!), mom and dad, Rachel Pfeffer, Janet Braun-Reinitz, Katie Henry & Nicole Jernee...