jessica Care moore
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Biography of jessica Care moore
jessica Care moore is an internationally renowned poet/ publisher/ activist/ rock star/ playwright and actor. She is a five-time Showtime at the Apollo winner; has featured on hip-hop mega-star, Nas’ "Nastradamus" album and was a returning star of Russell Simmon’s HBO Series, Def Poetry Jam.
After her legendary win on the Apollo stage, jessica Care moore was approached by several book publishing companies, but in 1997, she paved her own path and launched a publishing company of her own, Moore Black Press. Which has released her first book; The Words Don’t Fit In My Mouth, several thousand copies and a few years later, she followed up with her second collection of poetry and essays, The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto.
Moore Black Press proudly published famed poets, Saul Williams and Shariff Simmons; Def Poetry Jam’s co-founder, Danny Simmons, NBA basket-ball player, Etan Thomas, activist and poet, Ras Baraka and former Essence Magazine editor and author, Asha Bandele.
This bold and electric artist has shared the stage with the late Ossie
Davis, CeCe Winans, Gregory Hines, Anthony David, Norah Jones,
Amiri Baraka,
Patti Labelle, Roy Ayers, Mos Def, The Last Poets, Sonia Sanchez, Talib
Kweli, Nikki Giovanni,
Steve Harvey,
Maya Angelou and many others. In 1999,
she was honored as Woman of the Year by the Harvard Black Men’s Forum.
She is among the few poets who can attract more than the usual eclectic
artsy crowd; bringing people from all backgrounds to fall captivated by her
lyrics, verses and the universal raw truths in her poems. This Detroit bred
natural born entertainer fuses a rock band with hip-hop and poetry. Her
band, Detroit Read (pronounced "red"), fuses soul rock ’n roll sounds
inspired by Prince, Betty Davis, Janis Joplin, The Temptations and Marvin
Gaye. The performance is a combination of heart-pounding rock, acoustic
guitar, house and raw hip-hop mixed with jessica’s soulful raspy voice as
lead vocalist.
jessica Care moore voices herself as a strong warrior in the fight against
AIDS. She has performed for the United Nations World AIDS Day Commemoration
two years in a row. She also organized the successful Hip-Hop-A-Thon Concert
in (San Francisco), which helped increase AIDS education in the Black and
Latino Bay-Area communities. She has performed at several AIDS WALK Opening
Ceremonies in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Florida and
Atlanta.
Her innovative and inspiring take on literacy among our nation’s youth
landed her opportunities to produce several art programs, concerts, and
workshops for the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, and worked as a
facilitator for The Langston Hughes National Poetry Circle Project.
As an internationally respected author and poet she has rocked stages all
around the world from Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Berlin, Paris,
Holland, England, Scotland and many others. jessica Care moore teamed up
with Impulse recording artist, Antonio Hart on the album "Here I Stand," and
collaborated with Big Cat’s rap artist, PBT, and also featured on
The Last
Poets Tribute Album.
Her talent does not stop at poetry, jessica featured in "Hugh’s Harlem
Dream" (STARZ), and starred in the award-winning independent film,
"His/Herstory." She also captured the lead in the independent film, Under
The Gun, which co-stars Umi and M1 of Dead Prez. She had a cameo appearance
in the award-winning film, "Slam," and is one of the stars of the
documentary, "Slamnation!" She is the producer, writer and star of the
poetry and music themed show, "SPOKEN!" aired on the Black Family Channel,
produced in association with Moore Black Press and directed by CEO, Robert
Townsend. She is one of the featured artists in the PBS special; "I’ll Make
Me a World."
She is the playwright and author of "There Are No Asylums for the Real Crazy
Women," a one-woman stage production that reveals the true life story of
Vivienne Eliot, the late first wife of famous poet T.S. Eliot. Fusing her
contemporary poetry, hip-hop culture, feminist thought and language, jessica
offers a moving and innovative portrayal of an English woman born in 1888.
She also authored and performed in the one-woman stage play "AlphaPhobia," a
semi-autobiographical sketch about a female poet who believes the alphabet
is trying to kill her.
Her literary work has received wide exposure, and her poems featured in
several major anthologies including; "A Different Image," (U of D Mercy
Press, 2004), "Abandon Automobile," (WSU Press, 2001), "Listen Up!" (Random
House, 1999), "Step Into A World," (Wiley Publishing, 2001), "Role Call"
(Third World Press, 2002), "Bum Rush The Page: A Def Poetry Jam" (Crown
Publishing, 2001).
She is the youngest poet published in the "Prentice Hall Anthology of
African American Women’s Literature," by Valerie Lee, alongside literary
greats, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker,
Octavia Butler, Maya Angelou and
many others.
Jessica was also featured in Essence, Blaze, Source, Vibe, African Voices,
Bomb, Mosaic, Good News, Savoy, One World, BE, Ambassador Magazine and
others. The poet/actors return to the "D" has been met with much buzz,
gracing the covers of The Metro Times, African American Family, The Detroit
News, and The Detroit Free Press.
This talented powerhouse was commissioned by The Apollo Theater to debut her
new multi media solo theater show, God is Not an American. Her show sold out
the Apollo Theater Salon Series in April, and after a return from touring in
France and Amsterdam, she will bring the show back to NYC for encore
performances in Brooklyn and Harlem in July 2009.
You Want Poems
feat. Jose James & Roy Ayers - Single
Jessica in Summer
feat. Paris Toon & Mothers Favorite Child - Single
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