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About Me

Writer, vocalist, and Harlem denizen, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs rigorously explores sound through a myriad of macaronic verse, language and electronic vocal processing. Her literary works have been featured in publications that include Rattapallax, Nocturnes, Polvo, Ego Trip, The Source, Urb, Vibe, Drum Voices Review, Black Music Review (Japan), Authentic Hair, Long Shot, and Bum Rush the Page, and Everything But the Burden and the Black Belt art catalog for the Studio Museum of Harlem.Performing in venues ranging from Sonars Electronic Music festival in Barcelona, The Asia Society in New York, The Ether Electrnoic Festival at the Royal Palace, London, and Rikers Island Womens Correctional facility, she has worked with Vernon Reid, DJ Logic, Akilah Oliver, Mike Ladd, Butch Morris, Gabri Christa, Shelley Hirsch, DJ Louie Vega, Burnt Sugar, DJ Jeannie Hopper, Ori Kaplan, Edwin Torres, Carl Hancock Rux and Vijay Iyer, to name a few. She has been featured on recordings by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Towa Tei, Billy Bass, Domenico Ferrari, Guillermo E. Brown, and the compilation Eargasms: Hip Hop Poetics, Volume 1.A fellow of the Cave Canem Workshop for African American Poets, LaTasha has completed residencies at Caldera Arts Space and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center as well as received a Zora Neale Hurston scholarship from Naropa Institute and New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship.Diggs is the author of three chap-books, Ichi-Ban: from the files of negrÃta muÃ±eca linda and Ni-ban: Villa MiserÃa (MOH Press), and Manuel is destroying in bathroom (Belladona Press) as well as the producer and writer for the audio project, TelevisÃon. She is the lead electronic vocalist for two bands, the Yohimbe Brothers, fronted by Vernon Reid and DJ Logic and TBK, fronted by Guillermo E. Brown. LaTasha is the poetry curator for the online arts journal, www.exittheapple.com.She is currently figuring out the mpc, writing for the next project (whenever that happens), and trying not to eat an egg and cheese on a bagel every morning.Profile Edited by MPS MySpace Editor 2.0--

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Member Since: 10/6/2005
Band Website: exittheapple.com
Band Members: me, myself, and i...
Influences: you should ask.....and..... width="425" height="350" ..and..... width="425" height="350" ..
Sounds Like: Jayne Cortez on Crystal Meth with a stomp pedal and a Kaoss but wanna to get this... .. width="425" height="350" ..sort of...
Record Label: Surya Sounds / Harlem Elohi
Type of Label: None

My Blog

This in from Black Rock Coalition...please READ

Family: It is with my deepest and most profound sorrow that I have to convey to you that our brother, Sekou Sundiata is in grave condition in a Westchester County hospital (I'm working on gettin...
Posted by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:44:00 PST

This in from Black Rock Coalition...please READ

terrible luck this week

ok, something about the roads closing. this must be it.but why do i feel totally cool?today making a leather pouch for a pal, i went to look for the box labeled "beading supplies." Knew I had some me...
Posted by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs on Tue, 29 May 2007 09:29:00 PST

13 minutes till b-day

so what do i do before now? cut my hair 3 weeks ago. go for ginger blond and get....ur reddish. throw my back out again. near complete my second video piece. won Z ful. forget to return movie to publ...
Posted by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:04:00 PST

James Brown dies on Xmas morning...wow

Having just gone through a miserable thanksgiving and a somewhat mellow Xmas,I'm sadden by a radio announcer mentioning a tribute to James Brown. At first, I was kinda like stunned...the radio has be...
Posted by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:13:00 PST

Week two in Oakland/San Fran

Have come across several old friends who moved out here mad years ago. Came across one bontanica that was crazy expensive. Classes are dope. The professorteaching MAX MSP and Pro Tool is pretty da...
Posted by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:54:00 PST

Funeral Service for Willie Ninja

Friday, September 8th 20067-9pmRoy L. Gilmore's Funeral Home19102 Linden BoulevardSaint Albans, Queens, NY 11412718-529-3030 Open to his loving and adoring friends and fans. Please visit www.myspace....
Posted by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:50:00 PST

Why one must not go bonkers with pimp my space

a note...too many slide shows, too many graphics in the back drop, too many links to this and that, too many attempts to graph madd flashy text...it all produces a headache, it slows down the pull up ...
Posted by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:51:00 PST

thoughts about my god children, my e tsi, goals, dreams

it's funny when you ask folks to not send you money shots and instead of respecting the comment, they wanna send more....well i guess i'll just press deny and live on.just came back from visiting my g...
Posted by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:45:00 PST

if you want me to welcome you onto my list of "friends"

I've been thinking about this for while. It's kinda simple to just deny folks who ask to be invited in this realm called myspace, to be my "friend" when it's really about making a connect to someone ...
Posted by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 07:20:00 PST