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Gypsee Yo

I am a consonant wishing to be as loud as a vowel

About Me

Jonida Beqo a.k.a Gypsee-Yo is a native of Tirana, Albania who has been finally pronounced as a "bonafide" Southern girl, after "doing time" in the Bible Belt for almost 9 years. She is currently a resident of Atlanta, Ga. In 2001 she founded Lighthouse Productions, an independent theater company that performs works that educate about and empower communities in crisis. In spring of 2004 she was recognized by the American College Theatre Festival and the Kennedy Center for the Arts with the Dell’Arte Diversity Award for her work in her original one woman show “Sinners and Saints; The Women I Know”, an internationally performed and critically acclaimed play. She joined the spoken word/slam frontier in 2005, and is still loving every (3) minute(s) of it. As a slam poet she has been a member of the Atlanta/Java Monkey Slam Team at the National Poetry Slam in Austin, TX 2006-2007.She is the author of three critically acclaimed poetry books and several anthology features in her native tongue, and of four CDs and a DVD in yours. She continues to perform nationally and internationally and has been known to violate the prop rule by bringing her infant daughter up on the stage with her. Gypsee's main goal in life is "not to suck", and she believes that this is both a reasonable and potentially attainable goal.
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Member Since: 11/15/2006
Band Website: gypseeyo.com
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Influences: Jolie Holland, Nick Drake, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Doc Watson, The Be Good Tanyas, Stanley Brothers, Devendra Banhart, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Emmilou Harris, Ani Difranco, BLLA BLLA BLLA, Khaki King, Dresden Dolls, Tori Amos, Sigur Ros, Barnstormers, Bryan Pattillo, Jon Goode, Ronnie Mooreand EMA



Sounds Like:"a manifesto, and a sonnet;an anthem, and a psalm" - Ema's Song
Record Label: Lighthouse Productions
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Adrianas daddy

Last monday, my church family experienced a tremendous loss in our midst. Our brother Alavaro, a dear friend and a beloved father and husband passed away suddently while driving to work, due to a...
Posted by Gypsee Yo on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:40:00 PST

on " gypsee won the LEAF SLAM only because she had the baby with her"...

To whom it may concern: A couple of months ago I attended the Leaf Slam in Black Mountain NC, among many poets from all over the country, and placed first, thus winning the coveted prize of $1000.00 I...
Posted by Gypsee Yo on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:01:00 PST

The universe is a love poem - (rough draft)

The universe is a love poem spoken by God without regard to time or audience And I wasn't there for the premiere But I imagine it went down something like this: In the beginning was the word and the...
Posted by Gypsee Yo on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:29:00 PST