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Oakland News Now – A Mesmerizing Performance on Counting Blessings and Universal Love | Kev Choice | TEDxOakland – video made by the YouTube channel in the video’s upper left hand corner.
In this moving performance, Oakland, CA native pianist, M.C., producer, and composer Kev Choice shows his heart and soul and share’s some of his unique journey as an artist through his music. Kev display’s the powerful blend of a classical pianist and conscious rapper. Kev is working in collaboration with drummer Dame Drummer, and upright bassist Shimpei Ogawa. In this mesmerizing performance, Oakland, CA native pianist, M.C., producer, and composer Kev Choice shows his heart and soul and share’s some of his unique journey as an artist through his music. Kev display’s the powerful blend of a classical pianist and conscious rapper. Kev is working in collaboration with drummer Dame Drummer, and upright bassist Shimpei Ogawa. They weave together beautiful vocals, drums and a bass into a mesh of this magic sound that combines elements of Hip-Hop, Jazz, Soul, and Classical music, to convey a message that love and compassion are truly a balancing act, to follow your dreams, count your blessings, and spread love all around the world.
Kev Choice was raised in Oakland, CA and began playing piano and writing rhymes at the age of 11. He went on to obtain a Bachelor’s Degree from Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans and a Master’s Degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, both in Piano Performance. Choice’s career as a professional has featured stints as pianist/keyboardist for artist such as Michael Franti & Spearhead, Goapele, Zion I, LyricsBorn, The Coup, Too Short, and more. Kev was 7-time Grammy award winning artist Ms. Lauryn Hill’s musical director in 2007. He’s toured extensively to over 25 countries and all over the US as a musician and artist. Kev has produced 4 solo albums as well as was commissioned to write a piece for the Oakland Symphony in 2018. His work Soul Restoration Suite debut at The Paramount Theater to a sold out audience and rave reviews. As a producer, Kev has had his music on albums by artist like Lauryn Hill, Zion I, Wiz Khalifa, Curren$y, Jennifer Johns, Martin Luther, and more.
When not performing or producing, Kev Choice is active in community as an educator and advocate for arts. He teaches at Oakland School For The Arts, is a governor and Secretary of the board for the SF Chapter of the Recording Academy, and has been appointed to the Cultural Affairs Commission for the City of Oakland. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://ift.tt/102EAFM
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Note from Zennie62Media and OaklandNewsNow.com : this video-blog post demonstrates the full and live operation of the latest updated version of an experimental Zennie62Media , Inc. mobile media video-blogging system network that was launched June 2018. This is a major part of Zennie62Media , Inc.’s new and innovative approach to the production of news media. What we call “The Third Wave of Media”. The uploaded video is from a YouTube channel. When the video is “liked” by Zennie62 YouTube, then it is automatically uploaded to and formatted automatically at the Oakland News Now site and Zennie62-created and owned social media pages. The overall objective here, on top of our is smartphone-enabled, real-time, on the scene reporting of news, interviews, observations, and happenings anywhere in the World and within seconds and not hours – is the use of the existing YouTube social graph on any subject in the World. Now, news is reported with a smartphone and also by promoting current content on YouTube: no heavy and expensive cameras or even a laptop are necessary, or having a camera crew to shoot what is already on YouTube. The secondary objective is faster, and very inexpensive media content news production and distribution. We have found there is a disconnect between post length and time to product and revenue generated. With this, the problem is far less, though by no means solved. Zennie62Media is constantly working to improve the system network coding and seeks interested content and media technology partners.