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About Me

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I was born in the East End of Stepney [London Borough of Tower Hamlets] London, United Kingdom on April 22,1964 both of St.Lucian parents [my father was bi-racial of black/white dual heritage and my mother was black] was that my first name ERROL is named after a Scottish Town placed between Dundee and Perth [both of my parents spoke French as their first language] also lived in St.Lucia, West Indies as a young boy in the early 1970s and lived there for nearly 5 years also spoke French during my early years it was almost my first language however English was my first language. Later in my life the journey took twist and turn that I have been fighting injustice and racism in London East End [London Borough of Newham at Secondary School in the mid 1970s fought against the fascist white teachers and pupils they were members of far-right organization also their grandparents and parents were members of Sir Oswald Moseley's Blackshirts of the 1936] since aged 13 years old also involved in the Anti-Apartheid Campaign on the issues of human rights in South Africa [I was politicised at a young age of 13 years old]also learned to play the Recorder in music classes at Secondary School[during the year of 1976-1977 as a Second Year Pupil] and in addition I started to picked the key guitar chord tune as a young 16 years old in 1980 that my talent ability is finally coming out despite the difficult years that God has given me a blessed talented gift by making my journey since the start of April 22,1997 [I was 33 years old while a student at university] and playing the Alto Saxophone by going to developed my musical career by being a member of The Guild of International Songwriters and Composers also now a Performing Right Society Member [PRS]. Also met Nelson Mandela in London on May 6, 1993 which he met with Doreen and Neville Lawrence the parents of Stephen Lawrence who was killed in Eltham,South East London on April 22,1993[I was celebrating my 29th Birthday].Furthermore I attended university as a mature student in 1993 after being successful of completing my one year Access Course to Higher Education at Fircroft College,Birmingham[founded by the Cadbury Family in 1909 also they were Quakers will be celebrating its 100th Anniversary in 2009] from September 1990 to June 1991 as a mature student. It was the start of an exciting future journey also have travelled to various countries such as Brazil [1989 also learnt to speak Portuguese language],Canada[1995,1996,1998,2000],USA [1995,2000],Tunisia [University Field Trip 1996],South Africa twice in 1997[Semster Abroad at the University of Cape Town 1997-1998 also spoke the South African English accent], Holland[1991, 1992,1996,2000] and Iceland[1998] recently Scotland [Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2006,2007].Furthermore I learned to speak the North American English accents while visiting Canada and America both times in 1995 and 2000.I also graduated from Middlesex University in late 1999 as a mature student [MDP Awarded Pass of February 2000] by attending my graduation ceremony of July 2000.In addition I am a talented filmmaker/writer as a member of Raindance Film Festival also completed the Raindance Filmmaker's Foundation Certificate on November 16, 2005 also now a member of the New Producers Alliance [NPA]recently attended the London Games Fringe Festival on October 5,2006 was organized by the University College for the Creative Arts, Farnham as part of the Jumpstart Project in reference of developing original content for games. Performed with Arts4Real Drama Group on the 13th Anniversary of the Anti-Racist Alliance[February 18, 2006] that my creative writing of Rendition is now on the website of http://www.antiracistalliance.org.uk/creatwriting and recently played the character of Garrett Morgan[the inventor of the automatic traffic lights and gas mask]in Arts4Real Drama Group's Production of Black Inventors [Black History Month] also recently performed a new dramatic piece on slavery [Rendition and kidnapped from Africa] and modern day exploitation of the factory workers in BANGLADESH at the Reopening Launch of Harrow Arts Centre [Elliott Hall] front of 400 crowd capacity on March 16, 2007. Completed the brilliant new dimesion style material of '90 Days' also it is linked with comedy,musical rap and poetry that includes human beat box and sound effect. I did performed my debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival of August 2006 recently signed up as a member of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. Previously I was involved of performing in MAKE POVERTY HISTORY G8 EVENT [TALENT SHOWCASE] in Edinburgh on July 2, 2005.In addition I have been involved with the Anti-Racist Alliance as a member in close collaboration with various anti-fascist groups by opposing the Nazi BNP [they represented racial hatred and intolerance by spreading fear that the group were exposed in the SEARCHLIGHT anti-fascist newspaper] in East London,South London,Surrey and Essex since 2005 standing for elections.I am a very tall handsome male also very multi-talented in the area of performing arts since July 2003 had done more than 90 performances that includes appearing in various films as a supporting artist between August 2005 [WASP 05] and January 2007 [8 movie appearances in total that includes Harry Potter V of October 2006 and The Bourne Ultimatum of November 2006 and January 2007] furthermore my neighbours told me that I look like Thierry Henry the former Captain of Arsenal and France football player also got a bit of Ray Charles which my mother told me due to my talented ability. In addition I have done appearances as a film extra with Envenio New Faces and a member of the Casting Collective [www.castingcollective.co.uk] and also a member of Dynamite Models since September 2006 in addition I did the NIKE Advertising Shoot of EVOLUTION Campaign on February 7, 2008.Furthermore I am a talented poet writer also have my poems published by Poetry Now part of Forward Press [www.forwardpress.co.uk]since 2004 and recently my poem of Yes to Joy No to Sorrow has been included on a Special Poetry Now showcase in Greater London Poets before the end of 2006.In addition my work has include of What Is The Meaning of Rendition? has been included in the resulting anthology A Moment Of Deva Vu published on April 30,2007 by Poetry Now.. Home | Browse | Search | Invite | Film | Mail | Blog | Favorites | Forum | Groups | Events | Videos | Music | Comedy | Classifieds

My Interests

My interests is Arts/Events, Festivals, Travelling, Music, Fashion, Surfing the Internet, that includes watching movies and concerts. In addition I am very multi-talented that includes Comedy, Singing plus can play three musicial instruments such as Classical Guitar [since I was a 16 year old in 1980],Alto Saxophone and Drums. I also a very sporting fan my favourite football team in England is Manchester United and my three football teams in the World are Brazil,England and France also like the game of cricket that I had experience of playing the game of cricket at an all boys school in St.Lucia as a young boy can bat and bowl by describing myself as an all-rounder.In addition I am very good at cooking different style of food dishes which my mother taught me during my early years.In addition I always listened to the Fusion Flavours on Sunday Evenings presented by Steve Quirk on Jazz FM 102.2 during the 1990s and early 2000s before the radio station changed it named to Smooth FM 102.2 in the United Kingdom. Also got interested in environmential issues such as global warming,climate change and civil liberties that includes human rights and campaign against racism by using the idea of bringing my theme subjects into performancing arts.

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet female friend who is very ambitious as me in the entertainment field of modelling, acting and musician of any race who is very open minded and educated.I would not tolerance any 419 scam merchants especially Nigerians that they were involved in the cement shipping scams of late 1970s [1977] also giving their country a very bad name because they are involved of sending 419 scam letters without no remorse by robbing their victims and their identities recently reported on the BBC News, BBC Radio Five Live and National Newspapers [such as The Daily Mirror] on October 4, 2007. Even so they are not very truthful also got no respect for others furthermore they sold their own people into slavery also used terrorism without no repentance also got no shame at all.

Music:

Grover Washington Jr,Beggar & Co and The Original Light Of The World [1980 funk and soul classics of TIME and London Town],Average White Band,Jazz Warriors,Courtney Pine, Ray Carless, Brand New Heavies, Norman Brown, Michael Brecker,Randy Brecker,Billy Cobham,Dr John, The Chick Corea Elektric Band, John Patitucci, Dave Weckl, Eric Marienthal, Frank Gambale, Joyce Cooling, Jeff Golub,Steve Laury,Marcus Miller,Quincy Jones,Roy Hargroves,Art Porter,Patrice Rushen, Russ Freeman,The Rippingtons,Jay Beckenstein,[Spyrogyra] Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour,Peter White,3 Days, Wayman Tisdale, David Benoit, George Benson,George Nardello,Al Jarreau,Tom Scott, 25th Street,Boney James, Earl Klugh,Brian Culbertson,George Howard,Luther Vandross,Marcell & the Truth, David Pack, BONO,STING, Eric Clapton, Rick Braun,Stanley Jordan,HEATWAVE,Janet Jackson,Everette Harp,Anita Baker,George Duke,Charles Farnborough [Debut CD Upright Citizen 1997], Miles Davis, Jonathan Butler, Hugh Maskela,Yellow Jackets,Jazz Pistols,Steps Ahead,Dave Koz,Paul Hardcastle,Dewey Redman,Joshua Redman,Passport, Incognito,Pieces of A Dream,Marion Meadows,Ramsay Lewis, Stanley Clarke,Jamiroquai,David Sanborn,Najee,Brian Bromberg, Richard Elliot,Voodoo Funk Project,Level 42,The 2:30 Band,Bob Marley, Fourplay featuring Nathan East,Bob James, Harvey Mason plus Lee Ritenour and many more various artists.

Movies:

Interview With The Vampire,The Secret, The Day After Tomorrow, An Inconvenient Truth, War On Democracy,Rendition, Amazing Grace,Passion of the Christ,Conversation With God,City Of God,Close Enounter of The Third Kind,Beverley Hill Cop [starring Eddie Murphy made in 1985],Trading Places, Fahrenheit 9/11,Blood Diamond, Catch A Fire,The Last King Of Scotland,Pink Panther [Dave Koz did a brilliant theme track of AT THE MOVIES ALBUM], The Interpreter, I ROBOT,The Harder They Fall, Men in Black, Cry Freedom, Malcolm X, Dry White Season, Lethal Weapon,Harry Potter V [ I was part as one of the muggle commuters on the film shoot of October 22, 2006 at the London Underground of Westminster tube station and was released from July 13, 2007], Star Wars,The Bourne Ultimatum [starring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne that I was featured as a supporting artist on various roles on the film shoot of November 1,2/9, 2006 and January 10/11, 2007 at the location of London Waterloo Station will be on released from August 17, 2007],Braveheart,Warriors

Television:

I do not watch Television very much also like comedies such as Lenny Henry, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby,Jimmy Carr, George Burns and other comedy and sitcoms such as Taxi [Bob James did a brilliant theme song] plus Starsky and Hutch [Tom Scott did an excellent theme song of SUNDOWN recently 25th Street from London, United Kingdom did the SUNDOWN FULL REMIX] plus Hill Street Blues [Larry Carlton did a brilliant theme song in 1981 for the Television series] and Mike Hammer [George Nardello recorded "HARLEM NOCTURNE" theme for the Mike Hammer TV Series] and Miami Vice [TV Series].

Books:

Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela [1994] Automony of A Miracle by Patti Waldmeir [1997] The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870 by Hugh Thomas [1997] I Will Write What I Like by Stephen Bantu Biko [1977] RAJ The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James [1997] Culture & Imperialism by Eward W. Said [1993] Facelift Apartheid South Africa After Soweto by Judy Seidman [1980] FRONTIER by Noel Mosert [1992] EQUALITY BY STATUTE: The Revolution in Civil Rights by Morroe Berger [1967] THE ART OF THE COVENANT by Roderick Grierson & Stuart Munro-Hay [1999] UP FROM SLAVERY/BOOKER T.WASHINGTON Edited by Philip Smith [1995] The Secret The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren [2002] Renewing The Mind by Casey Treat [1992] SCIENCE A HISTORY by John Gribbin [2002] The Holy Bible

Heroes:

My late father also taught me to play Guitar as a young 16 year old in 1980 [who fought very hard to ensure I was educated that he died before his 64th Birthday on July 11,2000 also he was born in 1936 and 10 years older than my mother],My mother[was also a cabaret singer encouraged me to use my multi-talent skills],plus other heroes Nelson Mandela,[ended the apartheid system in South Africa and became its first elected .Out="window.status='';return true; " ..Over="window.status='Lern more about .Out="window.status='';return true;';return true;".Out="window.status='';return true; " ..Over="window.status='Lern more about black';return true;"black President in 1994],Oliver Tambo,Ruth First[Fought against apartheid was murdered in a letter bomb in 1982],Joe Slovo[South African Freedom fighter also fought against apartheid], BONO,Bob Geldolf,Martin Luther King Junior[Civil Right Leader],Rosa Parks,Barack Obama,Abraham Lincoln[16th President ended slavery in the Southern States and end of Civil War of 1865], Desmond Tutu [Clergyman led the campaign against the 90 days detention law against the apartheid regime in South Africa of the 1980s],Trevor Huddlestone [Clergyman from the UK led the Anti-Apartheid Movement from the late 1970s until 1994 that I was very influence of fighting against racism in Britain and apartheid in South Africa as a youthful 13 year old boy],Ambrose Reeves [Clergyman also led the Anti Apartheid Movement during the 1960s and 1970s in the United Kingdom], Muhammed Ali,[boxing legend]Bob Marley,Sidney Poitier,James Brown,[Godfather of Funk/Soul Music],Ray Charles,Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson [Canadian Jazz Pianist], Garrett Morgan,[Black American of African descent invented the gas mask and the automatic traffic light signals was born on March 4,1877 and died on August 27, 1963 aged 86 years old]Pele[ Brazilian Soccer player],Derek Walcott,[1992 Noble Peace Prize Winner in Literature also from St.Lucia]Arthur Lewis[1979 Noble Peace Prize Winner in Economics also the first winner of St.Lucia],Sir John Compton [led St.Lucia into independence from Britain on February 22,1979 as a leader of the independent movement during the late 1950s and 1960s also 3 times elected Prime Minster of St. Lucia was born on April 29, 1925 and died on September 7, 2007 aged 82 years old ],William Wilberforce [led the campaign to abolish slavery in Britain of 1807], Marcus Garvey, Olaudah Equiano [political activist was previously enslaved and brought his freedom by written his own autobiography, The Life of Oloudah Equiano, The African and also involved with William Wilberforce that led to the abolition of slavery in 1807],Ignatius Sancho[anti-slavery campaigner],Thomas Clarkson,Hannah More, William Cuffey was son of naval cook and former slave born in the year of 1788 [Caribbean Island of St.Kitts]and his family settled in Chatham,Kent became leader of the Chartist Movement in England around 1838 and was tried for treason with guilty verdicts on September 25,1848 and was transported to Tasmania, Australia for 21 years was pardoned in 1851 as a political prisoner [died in July 1870 aged 82 years old] Linton Kwesi Johnson [poet and political activist],Fredrick Douglas [anti-slavery campaigner in the USA],Thomas Paine [Immigrant from Britain supported the American Declaration of Independence],Thomas Jefferson, Lennox Lewis [boxer], Mary Seacole [nurse], Leary Constantine [West Indian Cricketer also became England's first black peer to sat in the House of Lords in the 20th Century],Patrick Veira and Thierry Henry[France World Cup Winners 1998]Viv Richards and Clive Lloyd [West Indies cricket legends of the 1970s and 1980s that they led a brilliant cricket team almost up to 20 years]Lewis Hamilton [first black also of dual heritage mixture of black/white to make the breakthrough in motor racing of 2007]Tiger Woods [first black also of dual heritage mixture of black/Asian to make the breakthrough in golf of 1997] Malcolm X, Gandhi, Stephen Bantu Biko, Michael Moore[the documentary filmmaker],Robin Cook [brilliant Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House resigned from the Labour Government over the illegal invasion and war in Iraq of March 2003],Bernie Grant[the first black Labour MP was elected in Tottenham of 1987 also fought against police racism and injustice],Viv Anderson [the first black player to play in the England Soccer Team in 1978], Paul Ince[England first black captain of the Soccer Team in the match against USA of 1993],Doreen Lawrence[the mother of murdered Stephen Lawrence ], Bill Morris[ the first black trade union leader now in the House of Lords]and the emergency services [police, fire and hospital workers].

My Blog

Performed a Recorded Music Live in the studios of BBC Southern Counties Radio at 6pm

In addition I performed a recorded music live gigs with 2 songs such as the Brighton Skies and Such A Sunny Day in the studions of BBC Southern Counties Radio at 6pm on Friday May 23. Furthermore it w...
Posted by Errol on Tue, 27 May 2008 01:39:00 PST

Successful at my 2 Auditions with Hey Hollywood Here I Company Ltd

 On Saturday April 26, 2008 just 4 days after my 44th Birthday I attended the first auditions at West London Mission area location of Thayer Street,Central London at 14:30hours however was very s...
Posted by Errol on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:28:00 PST

Participated in the New Video Shoot for Corporate Companies

 In addition one day after my 44th Birthday on Wednesday April 23, 2008 I received a confirmation call from the Casting Collective in order to participated in the new video shoot for SCENARIO 1-H...
Posted by Errol on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:07:00 PST

Featured in the Middlesex University Alumni Community website of Where Are They Now?

In addition Errol Baptiste was featured in the Middlesex University Alumni Community with 11 fellow graduates of Where Are They Now? [Dated on Thursday March 20, 2008] Errol Baptiste [BA Thi...
Posted by Errol on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:57:00 PST

Featured in The Letter [ Issue 32]of Middlesex University Alumni News with 26 members Jan 2008

 In addition I was featured in The Letter [Issue 32] of Middlesex University Alumni News on January 2008 with 26 members who also graduated. I was mentioned about my achieved involved in performi...
Posted by Errol on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:09:00 PST

Took part in NIKE Advertising Shoot of EVOLUTION Campaign on Thursday February 7, 2008

In addition I took part in the NIKE Advertising Shoot organized by The Casting Collective and 72and Sunny Agency at the location of BOREHAMWOOD FOOTBALL CLUB on Thursday February 7, 2008 which lasted ...
Posted by Errol on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:19:00 PST

Due to be feature in The Letter Magazine of Middlesex University Alumni [January 2008]

 In addition I am due to be featured in The Letter Magazine of Middlesex University Alumni in January 2008 after receiving a confirmation email from the Editor of The Letter yesterday on Friday N...
Posted by Errol on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:13:00 PST

Featured in Songwriting and Composing Magazine with 2 Other Members Profile

     The latest Songwriting and Composing 4th Quarter 2007 is the magazine for International Songwriters and Composers that has been published and has been send out for the November 200...
Posted by Errol on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:02:00 PST

Will be in a featured interview of Songwriting and Composing Magazine [4th Quarter 2007]

In addition since after the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2007 I am due to be in a feature interview of The Guild of International Songwriting and Composing Magazine of the 4th Quarter 2007 in November.Fu...
Posted by Errol on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:56:00 PST

Interviewed by the Japanese Press about my Edinburgh Festival Fringe of 2007

On Wednesday August 22, 2007 I was interviewed by Yumiko Hayakawa a writer also member of the Japanese Press [PINK FLAMINGO] which was filmed outside the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Office on the H...
Posted by Errol on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:09:00 PST