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About Me

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From murals to music, from poetry slams to theatre, from beats to rhymes, Pittsburgh native Davu is a multidisciplinary artist constantly searching for new ways of expression. He has performed his original brand of poetry and hip-hop throughout the U.S. and abroad, appearing at CBGB's, The Andy Warhol Museum, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the Toronto International Poetry Slam, as well as London and South Africa. He has shared stages with Sekou Sundiata, Saul Williams, Ursula Rucker, and Camp Lo. He's interviewed KRS 1 and has been anthologized in "Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam" (Random House). He has published two chapbooks of poetry as well as receivied a 2001 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant. Davu's 2006 hip-hop album, "The Sun Do Move", can currently be found for sale in the U.S, France, Germany, Japan, Belgium, and The Netherlands. On his upcoming record VU's Moods, Davu handles the production duties on an 11 song album that is his most expressive to date. Backed by his own revolving band of gypsies, Fly Zombi, Davu's live shows careen from soul to rock to hip-hop to broken beat. Whether rocking a poetry reading, spinning a club, or singing a song, Davu is a renaissance man of the highest order!! Vu..s Moods - HIP-HOP/RAP: Underground Rap
His 3rd album following the critically acclaimed The Sun Do Move VUs Moods is Davus most expre
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Member Since: 14/08/2005
Band Website: www.doveink.com
Band Members: Fly Zombi is: DaVid Meletiche-Guitar, Anthony Coleman or Benezra Turgis- Keys, Mosheh or Derek or Mitchell or Sabrina -Drums, Brian or Monolo-bass
Influences: First and foremost my grandfather Herbert Marshall, and my uncle Herbert Marshall Jr. who were beautiful and anonymous musicians and an incredible inspiration in the beginning. . . . Billy Strayhorn, August Wilson, Andy Warhol, Ishmael Reed,Chris Ofili, Dilla (the man , the myth), Jean Michel Basquiat, Carl Hancock Rux, Gil Scott Heron, Questlove, Rich Medina, Mos Def, Eric Dolphy, David Ruffin, Don Cornelius, Marvin Gaye, A Tribe Called Quest, Sherman Alexie, Weldon Irvine, Gregory Hines, Langston Hughes.
Sounds Like: exactly like a nigga named Davu
Record Label: Dove Ink
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Don't bring a girl you just started dating to New Orleans!

she'll fuck u upthat town is crazyand if you bring someone who you're datingto NOLA, AND she's never been there beforeshe will just end up breaking your hearttrust me . . . (i'ma write a song about th...
Posted by on Sun, 03 May 2009 20:12:00 GMT

Thre Grind in 09

haven't really updated this in a looooong while and I figured now would be as good of a time as any to update ya'll on what I'm up to. I've been mad busy doing the community organizer thing, working o...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:05:00 GMT

The Black Dot Cafe is the shit

If u live in the bay and ain't been here, u just don't know. Nuff said. . .
Posted by on Sun, 11 May 2008 01:39:00 GMT

i've come to realize that i really enjoy djing

And I'm not really that good at it. At least, I'm not as good at it as I am at other stuff.DJing is really about the audience, not u, and it gives me an anonymous feeling that i don't get with Fly Zom...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 02:48:00 GMT

Break Fast

So my spiritual fast lasted about 24 hours. Today i was in meetings all day discussing the role of clergy in faith based organizing, I smoked some cigarettes, then felt bad about it then did some push...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:16:00 GMT

On: Time Warps, Friendships, and Bayard Rustin

So i've realized that when i blog from my Blackberry it takes a couple of days to show up on myspace. So my Easter post didn't show up until almost a week later, making me seem as if i was writing fro...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:51:00 GMT

He's Arisin' Reflections

So once again the universe finds me quietly observing from the side lines as my jazz counterparts proceed to get down and swing. I gotta formally learn an instrument if I'm going to roll with jazz mus...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:47:00 GMT

California doesn't give a fuck about it's schools

Went up to Sacramento today with some students from June Jordan School of Equity, a small high school by design in San Francisco's Excelsior district.The intent was to bum rush the state capitol build...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:57:00 GMT

Fly Zombie Manifesto

Fly Zombie loves his mother. Fly Zombie laughs at strippers before they are voluntarily ejected. Fly Zombie will not apologize to your relatives. Fly Zombie is tomorrow today, the future of the Black ...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:36:00 GMT

Good Times

So despite it all I persevere. Tonight I wandered in a bar in the Mission, where I serendipitously ran into a couple of members of my new band Fly Zombie. We did't plan it but they ended up sitting in...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:31:00 GMT