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Yejide has proven to be a respected, prolific, true-to-life Queen and is distinguished throughout the underground circuit as her metaphysical self ~ Storm The Mama Wize. She can metaphorically serve you. Physically, she truly can show and prove
Yejide is a multi-cultural dancer and has performed with and under the direction of Nafisa Shariff (Chuck Davis Dancers), Ester Grant (Forces of Nature), Linda Spriggs (Alvin Ailey Dance Theater), Kevin Jeff (Jubilation Dance Co.) and Tommy Tune and Leslie Dockery of Broadway fame. This Queen of Culture has instructed multiple styles of dance for all ages and ethnicities at the Toho Dance Seminar in Japan and various NYC studios.
Yejide is the First Lady of Eye Tree Society - an innovative, Rastafarian Hip Hop family (www.trusfund.com; www.myspace.com/inimightylockdown), a member of the WERISE (Womyn Empowered through Revolutionary Ideas Supporting Enterprise, www.werise.org ) collective & an artist on the Trifacta label (www.myspace.com/trifactamusic).
Yejide believes all people of African descent have an obligation to do their part in alleviating the injustices suffered by the Diaspora, if and when given the opportunity to make a difference. Her gift back to all is performing at benefits, panels and fundraisers for political prisoners, literacy programs for adults and children, womben in prison, wombens reproductive rights, at-risk youth and other grassroots initiatives, including Black August at St John the Divine's Synod Hall, Wordstock at the Pagoda in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Rock Steadys 21st Anniversary at the Hammerstein Ballroom and Roots! 2 Inter-Generational Showcase at the Theater for the City in LES.
Shes co-hosted the 1st annual Universal Hip Hop Parade in Brooklyn's Von King Park and performed in it the following year. Shes invited to speak her piece at several events including, Ladies On The Mic at The Bowery Poetry Club; Women In Hip Hop at LaGuardia Community College; Manhattan Neighborhood Network; and Illegal Broadcast Conference - Free Mumia, a live broadcast from Pseudo.com, just to name a few.
This resurrected spirit of the Mohawk Indian, Bajan, Trinidadian and Portuguese nations is a writer and social commentator who penned a column in the black-owned & operated, Brooklyn-based, Black Track Newspaper, entitled, Let Me Just Remind You. Shes written for Redeye Magazine and various other papers and was an on-air hostess for WKCR's Reggae Riddims with DJ's Jah Beanz of I.O.T.A. Sound & King Crown International's DJ Vincent Hans.
With a full plate of work, Yejide always provides her children with quality time and space, so they can grow, learn, love and respect themselves and others. Recognize the Mama Wize!
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