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AT CLUB PYRAMID
NOVEMBER 14th, 2000, 9PM
New York, Tuesday, November 14th—Gravity, in collaboration with Rocky Presents and Aerolith, throws their Healing InnoVations kickoff benefit showcase tonight at Club Pyramid. Organizers have managed to pull together an incredible line-up for this exciting new event.
A plethora of NYC's underground stars happily and generously have donated time to a cause they believe in. It's going to be a long, healthy, and fantastic show. Nuyorican Slam Poet Felice Bell hosts the evening with the unique DJ Joshua Gabriel on the decks mixing largely drum and bass and old skool. Two underground superstars from Anomalies will rhyme and breakdance with their distinctive dynamism for the lucky crowd that packs into Pyramid. Speaking of NYC divas, Gravity has managed to enlist Omega Moon to perform. She will be joined by the charismatic DJ Mocha, and fellow lyricist and guitarist Black Mongoose for a hybridized rap/rock performance. The talented and lovely Chloe will tap-dance to an undisclosed Bob Marley song, bringing an intensely personal and innovative flavor to the world of tap. As if that isn't enough, live hip-hop band and NYC favorite Dujeus? is performing. These skilled young musicians and lyricists have been acclaimed club nomads throughout the city for over six years.
However, not all of tonight's talent has been plucked off of the metropolitan Gravity playground. Musical artists from Proton are flying in from their hometown in music hotspot Atlanta to showcase intelligent southern rap with an electronic influence. Ugandan hip-hop trio Black Reign will also be performing.
Slowing things down a bit, the well-loved singer and poet Mahogany Jones will bring her usual introspection and sass to the eclectic Gravity scene. Spoken word performers Nzinga and Jamal St. John will join in the intellectual probing. Akim the Funk Budha promises a five-minute spot unlike any other, deep in a spiritual freestyling and chanting zone.
This production has been long in the making and promises to be fresh, exciting, and enlightening. Gravity is a young and energetic collective of artists, technologists, activists, musicians and promoters founded by enterprising Columbia University graduate and filmmaker Tchaiko Omawale. The Healing InnoVations benefit event series will be ongoing (every 3 months) and committed to raising youth awareness around the issue of AIDS and HIV. Facts and information about the AIDS crisis will be integrated into the body of the showcase. Gravity hopes to draw parallels between the epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States. Proceeds will go each time to a different specific organization in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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