Fiya Blows Up and Busts at the Jazz Poetry Cafe!

On February 28, 2002, Performing Artist and Womanist Fiya took the stage as a guest artist of the Jazz Poetry Café's Let it Rip! at the Adult Career Development Center in Richmond, Va. The student and staff participants in this eruption of poetry performed with the accompaniment of smooth R&B with jazz influences. Music selections also included Lady Caramel, a track from Saxophonist Harron Evoria's CD, Welcome to My World, and Martha Suber, blues vocalist of the Marshall Pfeiffer Band.

Fiya ended the love poetry segment with an original poem "Kiss of Life" and broke into an off-the-dome rendition of her newest poem "I'm not that chick". She engaged the ladies in the audience to participate in a chant of the song's title. Following a stellar performance of an original poem entitled "America" performed by Alicia Waller, Poet Fiya lulled the audience with a performance of an original piece entitled "elevated people". In this poem she employed her audience to take a stand against social injustice and institutionalized slavery. Smoothly she sang to the audience 'elevated people…we gotta take a stand'. This spiritual chant was like a mantra for thought and consideration.

Fiya's performance for the Jazz Poetry Café was moving, entertaining, and enlightening…She will definitely blow up and bust…very soon!

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