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TAALAM ACEY (Happy Father’s Day)

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About Me

Taalam Acey is considered by many to be the central Spoken Word artist of the current generation. He's published a novel, a comprehensive collection of poems, an award winning memoir and 9 Spoken Word CDs. Taalam has been a full time traveling poet since 1999. Tens of thousands of people own his work and hundreds of thousands have watched him live or via television and the internet. Acey performs regularly in more than 50 cities in the US and abroad. On average, he is on a plane once every 3.5 days. That's 100 flights per year to promote Spoken Word.
Taalam's work has been featured on BET, TV One and in Essence Magazine. Acey was the first person ever selected as "the 1 thing you need to know about" on BET's countdown show, "The 5ive." Acey sat on the Congressional Black Caucus' 2008 "Young Gifted and Black" panel. He has been a frequent guest at dozens of colleges and Universities and has lectured on contemporary Spoken Word at the prestigious Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley. Acey has twice been featured at the Essence Music Festival. He's been quoted in several newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Weekly and the New Jersey Star Ledger. In addition, Acey's work has been associated with films that have garnered an Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
Taalam is also an accomplished slam poet who has won slams throughout the United States as well as in Germany and England. He was featured in an acclaimed Radio-One London documentary on slam and Marc Smith, the founder of slam poetry, used Acey's work as an example of slam poetry in his definitive book.
FILM CREDITS
·When The Smoke Clears (2001)
(himself)
2002 Sundance Online Film Festival Audience Award nominee
·Crack The CIA (2001)
(narrator)
2005 Sundance Online Film Festival Audience Award Winner
·True Lies (2006)
(himself)
2004 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize Winner
·What Black Men Think (2007)
(himself)
2007 "Best Black Documentary"
African American Film Critics Association
TELEVISION CREDITS
·BET
The 5ive (2007) -3 episodes
Teen Summit (2002) -1 episode
·TVOne
American Blackout (2007)

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Member Since: 5/19/2006
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"METAPHYSIX" from the film "LIVING COME ALIVE"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Bowery Poetry Club - April 24, 2008



A SHORT HISTORY OF THE N-WORD
Influences: Harriet Tubman, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, WEB Dubois, DESSALINE, Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe, Walter Rodney, Steve Biko, Booker T. Washington, Madame CJ Walker, Sojourner Truth, Queen Mother Moore, Ida B. Wells, Medgar Evers, Robert Williams, David Walker, John Brown, Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, Gabriel Prosser, Patrice Lumumba, Tom Mboya, Oginga Odinga, Alexander Crummel, George Jackson, George GM James, Paul Robeson, Queen Nzinga, Sonni Ber Ali, Imhotep, Akhnaten, Queen Makeda, Pharaoh Hatshepsut, Bunchie Carter, Fred Hampton Sr., Noble Drew Ali, CLR James, Carter G. Woodson, Assata Shakur, George Padmore, Eric Williams, William Leo Hansberry, Kwame Nkrumah (happy 50th Ghana), Kwame Toure, Sekou Toure, Julius Nyere, Edward Blyden.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Gil Scott-Heron, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Sonia Sanchez, Claude McKay, Amiri Baraka, The Last Poets and THE 3 WISEMEN (Keith Roach, Kalamu Ya Salaam and Kamau Da'ood), June Jordan, Toni Morrison, Margaret Walker (to the extent I can understand her super intelligent self), Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, EL Doctorow, Ralph Ellison, Dick Gregory, Gil Noble, Richard Pryor, Alice Walker, Paul Mooney.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Robert Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson (1 and 2), Ray Charles, Oliver Nelson (Blues and The Abstract Truth is in my top 5LPs ever!!), Art Blakey, Eric Dolphy, Lee Morgan, Horace Silver, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Mingus, Nancy Wilson, Etta James, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, Ron Carter, Run DMC, Frankie Beverly, Lonnie Liston Smith, Donny Hathaway, The Rolling Stones (most notably "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Paint it Black"), Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, The Meters, Booker T & the MGs, Michelle Ndegeocello, The Funk Brothers, Isaac Hayes, Nina Simone, Cream, Cameo, The Emotions, The Gap Band, Prince (last 3 mins of "I Wanna Be Your Lover" especially!), Kool & The Gang (Spirit of the Boogie days, not that Diana sh*t!!), Michael Jackson, The Neville Brothers, Sade, Portishead, Rakim, Tribe Called Quest, Fresh 3MCs, The Spinners, The Whispers (mainly for "Olivia (lost and turned out)" and "A song for Donny"), The Bee Gees, LLCoolJ, Cold Crush Brothers, Spoonie Gee, Melle Mel, Stetsasonic, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Fearless Four, Strafe (just for "Set It Off" though. lol!), Ohio Players (and may their LP covers follow me to the next world!), Cymande, Commodores, Temptations, Blue Magic, The Stylistics, Janis Joplin, Mandril, Freddie Hubbard, Cake, Elton John, George Michaels, Joe Henderson, Pink Floyd, Tracy Chapman, Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Bob James, Dr. Dre, Outkast, Slick Rick, Stanley Turrentine (especially "Sugar"), Wes Montgomery ("California Dreamin" and "Bumpin" and "Bumpin on Sunset," etc.), Joe Sample, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Fela Kuti, Hank Mobley, Lou Donaldson, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Candy Staton, Minnie Ripperton, Aretha Franklin, Phyllis Hyman, Deniece Williams, Rose Royce, Labelle, Fertile Ground and Latimore.
Sounds Like: The Truth...but only because it is!
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Record Label: Word Supremacy Press
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My Blog

The Congressional Panel That Sparked Those N-Word Blogs

Below is the video link to the Young Gifted and Black Panel (Sept 2007) for the Congressional Black Caucus in which I was a participant. It was hosted by the Honorable Congresswoman Maxine Waters. The...
Posted by TAALAM ACEY on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:37:00 PST

CLUTCH MAGAZINE: ok, so they interviewed me but d*mn!!

Clutch Magazine: is one of the most impressive sites I've seen in a long time. It's an elegantly designed one-stop portal for fashion, beauty, life and culture. Yes, they've just posted an interview o...
Posted by TAALAM ACEY on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:29:00 PST

Listen Here to Stevie Wonder Interviewing Me on 5/15/08

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Posted by TAALAM ACEY on Sat, 17 May 2008 11:24:00 PST

Internet Radio Interview (Thursday May 8, 2008). What Do You Think?

(click the graphic above to listen)P.S. The Market 4 Change (my latest CD) will be going out of print, indefinitely, shortly. ...
Posted by TAALAM ACEY on Sat, 10 May 2008 08:26:00 PST

Ask Me A Question: My 1st VLOG Attempt

Ask Me A Question. Let’s Push The Envelope. ...
Posted by TAALAM ACEY on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:32:00 PST

What If This Is G*ds Work?!

I often receive comments and messages from my MySpace friends about how much the CD has moved them...those messages often move me, the one that I received this morning REALLY did: ____________________...
Posted by TAALAM ACEY on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:20:00 PST

What Ive Learned To Do Better Than Most On The Internet

I can express it to you quite simply: When people order online, they will patronize you continuously if you provide quality products, quickly. If you exceed their expectations, people return for more...
Posted by TAALAM ACEY on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:26:00 PST

Wanna Know How It All Got Started. Kool. Heres the 411

Blessings, It’s common knowledge, among my friends, that Eyes Free (my first book-the brutally candid memoir about my poetry life/style-see reviews below) has been out-of-print for a few years. ...
Posted by TAALAM ACEY on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:42:00 PST

re: the election, this is prime

This may anger some, but I have little faith in politicians. I believe a certain type of person becomes a career politician in the same way a certain type of person becomes a cop. There's no doubt in ...
Posted by TAALAM ACEY on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:12:00 PST

A Black History Month Reading List.

(this includes an additional six titles) Blessings, the following is a list of 36 books that deal with various periods and aspects of Afrikan History. I doubt anyone can finish them all by ...
Posted by TAALAM ACEY on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:28:00 PST