Thursday, March 10, 2011
sooooo....at this moment in time I am in Columbus, with all of these beautiful women poets....volunteering and getting full...feeling a peace within myself...since losing Elijah Henry August 21st 2010 I have been becoming this new person, accepting my new role in life....loving this change...I cannot explain the level of pain I experience at times because of the loss of my baby....however my grief counseling allows me to mourn in a healthy way, and talk about him....speak Elijah's name whenever I can...to keep him remembered...to keep his spirit alive...he lived for two hours and smiled at me and I got that! I saw that...I felt my baby's love and continue to feel....I am sooooo open to my faith and to unconditional love! for every one! it is because of Elijah that I am a better woman to myself first and to others...it is because of Elijah that I am moving in my faith and letting God heal me! talking and writing about it is healthy and if you dont or cant take it!!! beat it! naw....yeah...real talk!! thanks for reading this whoever read it and may you find yourself through any pain or trials that you think are keeping you down, or from your dreams...pain is a form of correction and must be accepted....peace and love!!
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
A Warm Day in a Cold Land
Today is a warm day, considering that it is February in Cleveland. And there are snow piles high up on curbsides in the city...dirty edged snow....makes one think about the dirt that is on cars, tracked on shoes into people's houses....the germs that comes with all this smog...how we must wash our hands...after touching almost everything...a rant...random thoughts at random times is all that this will be used for...something to exhale to...when I feel like it...just read some real funny lines this morning...had me with tears in my eyes such pure joy from a pure friend whom I met once...made my stomach double-dutch over inside veins...Ghostface...I'm a share his link so you alls can follow...pure truth yet funny....always my heart will love his soul...yeah...we connected like that....like the way the sun shines and melts the bad away...the way nature can make us smile...calm down the thunderstorms within our insides...put pressure on the inside face to smile...through all the pain that faith has released into chosen vessels, smile through the bullshit because it is a reason the skin must be toughened...and there are various ways that this must occur...so sit in your own downfall, low-tide, bad luck, tough time...bullshit which is yours...smile, and open arms to another way of livng for happiness has a new way of feeling...and it takes to feel the bad to feel the good...disinegrating into a sense of nothingness to understand that something is there...that living is a task...it is in itself a pre-planned obstacle course, with pieces ready to attack, defend, and block from achievements...chess is emotion with a RZA backsong...sidewalks crack for secrets to be broken...only some of us can read the cracked language anyway...dont expect us all to see the tears within treebarks, hear the leaves crackle in pain...dont expect everyone to be sensitive to your feelings...thats for the lame leadfooted...people who choose to move without direction...those who lack the discipline to listen...with an open ear and a sound heart...not sugarcoating the already sweet situations...and...maybe that may be their role...if they dont know...smile...glad that I have found and accepted mine...peace. love. respect. knf
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
NGINAFAYOLA MUST BE HEARD!!!!
Ngina Fayola is a singer/songwriter, born in Georgetown, Guyana. She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio with her parents and two sisters. Ngina Fayola’s father, Jojo Kofi Badu, was one of the founding members of the international world music band, The Yoruba Singers; he became her direct influence into her craft. She started as a poet in Cleveland, Ohio then ventured into singing songs with her guitar at local open mic nights. At the end of 2007, she moved to Lakewood with her two children, and starting making her own beats and producing songs.
“It was always in me to do my own thing…I didn’t feel that people had the same vein that I did for this (music). I wanted to do my own music”.
Since 2004 Fayola has written, arranged, produced and directed four albums: nginafayola (the birth of), observationz, Anomaly, and Ladybugs in my Lamp. Each beat was arranged and created by Ngina Fayola; each album reflects a point of change and growth within Fayola’s personal. Fayola also produced A Spoken Word Project: for the People for Kisha Nicole Foster (Gneous Music) in 2008. In 2008, she was on the Kings vs Queens on the Iron Mic (Grog Shop) and she was in the Battle of the Beats (Symposium). In 2009, she was featured in the Cleveland Scene magazine for her performance in the Queens on the Iron Mic Show. She has worked with such artists as Eriq Troi, PhatBurner, Elemental Hard Groove, and Joe Byrd. She has toured with RepLife, a jazz/spoken word duo, which consists of Mark Matthews (D.J) and Daniel Gray-Kontar, in Ohio and Pittsburgh. She has also featured at The Earth Nightclub (Cleveland, Ohio); The Underground (Cleveland, Ohio), and the legendary Grog Shop (Cleveland, Ohio). Fayola performs live acoustically or with a four-man band and back-up singers.
“Audiences are so shallow…when they like you doing that one thing, they love you. They dislike you if you stray…I want people to give my music a chance, not because it makes sense or they feel instructed…but because it feels good”.
Simplicity describes the Ngina Fayola Experience. Fluid emotions are secure inside solid beats. Ngina Fayola’s voice, being of survival and awareness, is one that is hypnotizing. The sound holds the listeners ear, and commands the soul to calm down, a reassurance that things will be just fine. This definitive style is one that is imperative within the movement of music progressing people. In her songs she questions, initiates and shares in detailed sequences; each one balanced with genuine concern for the aesthetic of music. Her music is an art and she composes songs for the sake of this art; in hopes that it reaches internationally…that her birthplace of Georgetown will serenade her home with her lyrics. Ngina Fayola is a flame that others flock towards, drawn to raspy undertones within a strong lilt. Her musical range taps into Rock and Soul, Hip-Hop, Jazz and Eclectic Abstract. The Ngina Fayola Experience electrifies one individual at a time, leaving each with simply dope music – smiling from ear to ear.
“It was always in me to do my own thing…I didn’t feel that people had the same vein that I did for this (music). I wanted to do my own music”.
Since 2004 Fayola has written, arranged, produced and directed four albums: nginafayola (the birth of), observationz, Anomaly, and Ladybugs in my Lamp. Each beat was arranged and created by Ngina Fayola; each album reflects a point of change and growth within Fayola’s personal. Fayola also produced A Spoken Word Project: for the People for Kisha Nicole Foster (Gneous Music) in 2008. In 2008, she was on the Kings vs Queens on the Iron Mic (Grog Shop) and she was in the Battle of the Beats (Symposium). In 2009, she was featured in the Cleveland Scene magazine for her performance in the Queens on the Iron Mic Show. She has worked with such artists as Eriq Troi, PhatBurner, Elemental Hard Groove, and Joe Byrd. She has toured with RepLife, a jazz/spoken word duo, which consists of Mark Matthews (D.J) and Daniel Gray-Kontar, in Ohio and Pittsburgh. She has also featured at The Earth Nightclub (Cleveland, Ohio); The Underground (Cleveland, Ohio), and the legendary Grog Shop (Cleveland, Ohio). Fayola performs live acoustically or with a four-man band and back-up singers.
“Audiences are so shallow…when they like you doing that one thing, they love you. They dislike you if you stray…I want people to give my music a chance, not because it makes sense or they feel instructed…but because it feels good”.
Simplicity describes the Ngina Fayola Experience. Fluid emotions are secure inside solid beats. Ngina Fayola’s voice, being of survival and awareness, is one that is hypnotizing. The sound holds the listeners ear, and commands the soul to calm down, a reassurance that things will be just fine. This definitive style is one that is imperative within the movement of music progressing people. In her songs she questions, initiates and shares in detailed sequences; each one balanced with genuine concern for the aesthetic of music. Her music is an art and she composes songs for the sake of this art; in hopes that it reaches internationally…that her birthplace of Georgetown will serenade her home with her lyrics. Ngina Fayola is a flame that others flock towards, drawn to raspy undertones within a strong lilt. Her musical range taps into Rock and Soul, Hip-Hop, Jazz and Eclectic Abstract. The Ngina Fayola Experience electrifies one individual at a time, leaving each with simply dope music – smiling from ear to ear.
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