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Strictly4Life (MR. FIX IT!)

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About Me

iKE's part of a new breed of up & coming music business managers / orchestra & string section fixers currently invading the UK music circuit! @ present he works as the busines manager for The Urban Soul Orchestra who are the funkiest session musicians on the scene! To date they’ve worked with some of the top peeps at the height of their game; these include Nitin Sawhney, Groove Armada, Oasis, Mariah Carey and Jay-Z to name a few!“So if you’ve got that track and the synthesised strings just aint cutting it and you want the real slick stuff….Halla”He also handles the affairs of Mr. Stephen Hussey who is one of the top arrangers/conductor in the country, and co-handles the UK affairs of the recording artist Celloman, which is a unique blend of Eastern and African rhymes fused with Eastern and Western classically inspired melodies marinade in a funky bass and drums! Last but defiantly not least, there's Poppyseed, who he does some freelance marketing. Described as being a “cut between Eryka Badu, Bob Marley and Sade”, Poppy Seed has a ‘Breeze’ of her own.’ Original music and melodies embrace African Roots Rock Reggae, Jazz, Soul, R&B and Pop influences, which ‘enhance the themes of the poetry’.“So check us out at the following: www.urbansoulorchestra.co.uk, www.celloman.co.uk, www.poppyseedmusic.com and lets do some business!!!”Aside from all that he lectures at City University on Promoting and Staging A Live Music Event, at Westminster University on Tour Management and the Live Music Industry and mentors on a number of Urban music based youth summer schools / projects and is passionate about the UK Urban music scene!

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My Interests

Music, fashion, edu-tainment, current affairs close friends & the females in my life...My mum, my sisters, my woman, & true pride - MY DAUGHTER!!!

I'd like to meet:

The founders of MOTOWN, BAD BOY RECORDS, & SO SO DEF! What can I say, these guys inspire me... On a serious note, musicians, singers, producers, songwriters, poets, dj's, peeps starting up their own labels, management companies, peeps in the business side of the music game! Then there’s photographers, graphic designers, film producers, models and agents! On al level, peeps from all media based artistic backgrounds, so we can go straight to graffiti artists to upcoming and established fashion designers. Then we can take it to community based project workers who deal with young adults interested in the arts all the way to festival organisers. Don’t care what side of the globe you are, If your passionate about the arts and you know you've got something to say i.e. maybe talking about the scene in your neck of the woods, offer, or might require mine or some of my contacts service, HIT ME UP!!!

Music:

KIRTIS BLOW...'Basket Ball, or 'If I Ruled the World'!!!Run-DMC, 'It's Like That'!!!LL COOL J - 'I Cant Live Without My Radio'!!! Some of the first Hip-Hop beats that caught my attention in mid 80s ...The WHOLE DEF JAM / Sugar Hill rosta, It just Rocked!!! These boyz set the tone 4 me... Out side of that, RnB, Jazz,Hip-Hop, Alternative, Rock, Reggae/Roots Music, African Music (the Mother land/High Life), Latin, Indie, Ambient...Anything with Soul, Roots, Guts - straight from the SOUL, thats me man, as Lemar said Im a SOUL MAN!!!

Movies:

God Father Trilogy, Scar Face, Casino, Goodfellas... A Bronx Tale, Carlito's Way, The Business, (OK so I have a secret fantasy life style...U TALKIN 2 ME?)Gladiator, Ben Hur, Apocalypto, Spartacus, Troy, 300, Roots, 1,2 & 3, Blood Diamond,Greese, Crush Groove, Brake Dance 1,2 & 3, & the almighty Beat Street (Old Skool Brake Dance, yeh baby...)Things Fall Apart (Nigerian Rootsy Novel)

Television:

Lost, Ivasion, Heros, Prison Brake, when does the new series start? Hollyoaks...Yeh & What?

Books:

The Last Don, James Hardly Chase, almost all of em!!! Things Fall Apart, Niga movie...

Heroes:

My Mum, Nelson Mandela, Gandi & Mohammed Ali...Wellcome once again to my Bad Ass message for the moment! Barack Obama's message...YES WE CAN!!!)And some new inspirational messages for that man again, TALAM ACEY..."TURE LIES"!!!