Biography:
Ngoma is a performance poet, multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter and paradigm shifter, residing in Harlem, New York. For over 40 years, he has used culture as a tool to raise sociopolitical and spiritual consciousness through work that encourages critical thought.
His poetry has been widely published including in African Voices Magazine, Long Shot Anthology, The Underwood Review, Signifyin' Harlem Review, Bum Rush The Page/Def Poetry Jam Anthology and Poems On The Road To Peace (Volumes 1,2&3) Yale Press. He was featured in the PBS Spoken Word Documentary, The Apro-Poets with Allen Ginsberg. Ngoma has also hosted the slam at the Dr. Martin Luther King Festival of Social and Environmental Justice Festival (Yale University-New Haven, CT) for the past 14 years. His CD Reflections (1964-2006) pays tribute to some of the activist and cultural workers whose shining example served as a beacon for his work as an artist.
His latest C.D. State of Emergency (The Essential Ngoma) is available on CDBaby.com and iTunes.com
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Poem in Response to the Question-What Kind of Music Do You Play?
Swallow sweet sound like quinine
dog face blues
music junkies acquired taste
for flatted fifths
reggae skankin'
bubblin' bass, funk in in yo face
ghost of hendrix defiant strings
ragamuffin style
heart beat nyabinghi drum
diaspora sound for the melanin enhanced
junge dance on concrete
unboxable - improvisational
free style buck wild
rhythmically challenged culture bandits
can't steal this
music notation can't chart this
un notated sounds between the keys
it's too real for memorex
we string scientist
do voo doo mathematics
on your ear hole
funk so deep
grammy's can't judge stolen blues
from Mali to Memphis
cipher spinning on and on
bebop to hip hop
eternity's too short for this rhyme
in future time
only the righteous
can sing this song
