Felicia Webster is a performance artist/activist/visionary/educator from the Midwest who has been in the arts since a youth. From an mc, beatboxer,singer,songwriter, host spoken artist/storyteller she has blessed the mic in many ways. As a young lady she would be the hidden weapon in breaking and rhyme cyphers representing for the "girls", as well as dancing with CHS Posse. " She believed at a young age girls could do anything a boy could do.
Finally she and her sister Celestine(a phenomenal singer), Kendra Johnson would form the teen trio WDP(We Don't PLay) that would go on to win a youth talent show that their song "Stop the Violence" would address the gang issues in Omaha,Nebraska. She also was in the studio early with the fly Dj Mario Scratch and Brian B spitting rhymes over phat traxz. But as she grew into her womaness she moved to the East Coast and met up with an extremely talented sista named, Davina Natanya Stewart(playwright performance artist extraordinary) who together formed the dynamic duo Daughters of the Diaspora. Together they would travel from coast to coast and bring the spoken word open mic venues to a pause with their prolific unexpected (futuristic) way of disseminating information around social and political issues. This relationship would last over a period of 12 years and they still collaborate to this day. At one another point in time she moved back to the Midwest and created the 1st spoken word event in Omaha called InFoRtHyMz at the former Dazy Maze. She along with Dj Real and Alphonso the Magician and sit in musicians would come to form a multi-artist cypher where one would and could see anybody that was anybody involved in the arts. Next she'd created Poetic Fusion with David Collins and band which would inspire a Love Jones feel. Snap Snap!!! And in Philly she hosted the PLayground-live jazz 4real....
In Philly she gave birth one of her most informative, multifaceted and talented down to earth works entitled Withlove, Felicia.Withlove, Felicia is a performance art show that was created based on experiences with loving ones self and having loving healthy relationships. It was blessed to have also received th e Leeway's Art and Change award where Felicia was able to artistically demonstrate the "loving" and the "not so loving" situations in relationships , which is to include the cycle of abuse, and some concrete solutions on how to overcome them or why we repeat lessons.
She along with several beautiful women as back up artists; Rosemary Fiki(solo artist), Nyo(singer,vocal percussionist) of formally of Voices of Africa, Ashley Phillips(soul artist) and Natalie Hicks(actress, singer and songwriter), Dani Cleveland(vocalist/actress) Lovely(vocalist/jewelry designer)Daphane Woodhal, Jeff Scott, DZ, Thomas Wells to create a soundscape of music(R&B, Jazz,Gospel,Hip Hop) accompanied with spoken word/poetry, affirmations, personal testimonies and percussion/beat-boxing to inspire encourage and promote self love.The birth of this self love tour began in places where women were recovering, regrouping, or surviving from societal ills that include domestic violence, rape, homelessness or drug and alcohol and use the arts as a healing tool.Now, Felicia has begun to transform into her works into a stageplay/concert. Withlove, Felicia promises to be an informative show full of truth-telling, comedy,information, audience particiation and love,
that caters to everyday women (and men) who need to be informed, inspired, re-directed or see a reflection of life's truths when it comes to loving ones self inside of relationship.
She is also currently teaching self love concepts thrpugh spoken word to young people in schools using the performance arts and she is in the studio writing, her own spoken word album as well as collaborating with the fabulous organic group "The Last Few." And as a group they dropped a collaborative album entitled Real Music; tHE sOUL mOVEMENT,which is a soulful collection of unforgettable music by none other than Amir,dani cleveland,Big Wade,Drew "Showtime" Brookins,Greg Bowie and me, Miss Felicia.Felicia is currently working on 2 albums that promise to move the spirit:
Withlove, Felicia-based on the self love play/concert
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