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Jimmy Curry is an entertainment producer

Record producer

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, human rights activist and writer with credits in various ventures. Jimmy Spice Curry has worked with Grammy Award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

winning Rock artist Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Kravitz

Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and arranger, whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, R&B, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads...

, H. Small (Bahamen), Olympic

Olympic Games

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gold medalist Debbie Ferguson

Debbie Ferguson

Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie is a Bahamian sprint athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. She had her first major successes with the Bahamian 4×100 metres relay team, winning gold at the Pan American Games and World Championships in Athletics in 1999, and taking another gold at the Olympic...

, Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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winner Preston Vismale Jesse D of the Force MDs, and produced for various fortune 500

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firms, etc.

Early in 1983, Curry started experimenting with mixing music using old cassette decks. He then migrated to using drum machines and created his first record releases. Jimmy Spice Curry got permission from the Broken Bird Music to remake the classic Crosby Stills & Nash & Young song "Teach Your Children", which lead to a record deal at Sugar Hill Records

Sugar Hill Records

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and also had a brief stint there as a producer working directly with Sylvia Robinson

Sylvia Robinson

Sylvia Robinson was an American singer, musician, record producer, and record label executive, most notably known for her work as founder/CEO of the hip hop label Sugar Hill Records. She is credited as the driving force behind two landmark singles in the genre...

and Joe Robinson, the company's founders. On the song "Teach Your Children" he brought in award winning music engineer Patrick Adams (musician), Producer Larry Joseph Force MDs, and underground legendary DJs Teddy Ted and Special K. He also worked with a then young vocalist named "Tanganyika" who released a song involved in the Roxanne Wars

Roxanne Wars

The Roxanne Wars is a well-known series of hip hop rivalries during the mid-1980s, yielding perhaps the most answer records in history. It arose from a dispute over a failed appearance at a radio promotional show...

. In addition to winning an international "song-of-the-year" award, he has participated in films that won film festival

Film festival

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awards including one for his minor crew role in the movie short "The Saint of the Zuiderzee". Early in the career of award winning producer and performer Teddy Riley (producer), Jimmy Curry recorded one love song at Teddy's Harlem, New York home studio. Teddy Riley has produced Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...

and numerous other celebrities.

Jimmy Spice Curry made history by writing, directing and editing the first Bahamian movie "Filthy Rich Gangster", which premiered at the Shirley Street Theater in Nassau, Bahamas in August, 1996. He also produced and funded the first Bahamian Celebrity games. His record "Fighting To Survive", was the first Bahamian Hip Hop

Hip hop

Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...

record, and another release "Jammin To The Beat" was the first Bahamian song and record to mix the sub-genres of Junkanoo

Junkanoo

Junkanoo is a street parade with music, which occurs in many towns across The Bahamas and The Turks and Caicos Islands every Boxing Day , New Year's Day and, more recently, in the summer on the island of Grand Bahama. The largest Junkanoo parade happens in Nassau, the capital...

and Hip Hop. The movie Gun Lordz, in an independent film that he produced, wrote, directed and edited, and he subsequently signed a short promotion deal with the New York radio station Hot 97 (WQHT). He was a producer and performer at the world's first Rap Auction, was A&R Director for former record label Foot Print Records, where he met and developed a business relationship with legendary singer Jesse D of the Force MDs. He has also worked with Universal Zulu Nation

Universal Zulu Nation

|rightThe Universal Zulu Nation is an international hip hop awareness group formed and headed by hip hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa. Originally known simply as the Organization, it arose in the 1970s as reformed New York City gang members began to organize cultural events for youths, combining local...

legend Jazzy Jay

Jazzy Jay

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, Bunny Sigler

Bunny Sigler

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, Barney Conway, Sylvia Robinson

Sylvia Robinson

, Lovebug Starski

Lovebug Starski

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and others.

In the radio arena, he was the production director for Love-FM, has produced a segment for WBAI

WBAI

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that featured Mighty Sparrow

Mighty Sparrow

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and Inner Circle and produced radio shows for ZNS-1

ZNS-1

ZNS-1 is the oldest broadcast station in the Bahamas. It has a News/Talk format, and broadcasts on AM frequency 1540 kHz and FM frequency 104.5 MHz. It is under ownership of the Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas...

that featured Bahamen and other celebrities. His television production and background includes writing, producing, and editing several shows for Manhattan Neighborhood Network

Manhattan Neighborhood Network

Manhattan Neighborhood Network is a non-profit organization that broadcasts programming on four public-access television cable TV stations in Manhattan, New York and provides a community media center that enables individuals and groups to produce shows for its network.-History:It has operated...

, etc. He was hired by Marriott International

Marriott International

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to produce a special promotional video through one of their Miami, Florida executive offices. On the educational front he was Vice Principal of City School, teacher-of-the-year, Tech-9 instructor at Dwight-Englewood private school (Englewood, NJ), taught at the Career Center, and other schools. During the year 2007, he focused much of his energy creating, producing and promoting the in an effort to help give recognition to the many talented indigenous, native and other talents that traditional media do not include in radio rotation and TV episodes, etc. Therefore, he was founder and Executive Producer of the Genius Globe Awards, which had participants from India, Japan, Indonesia, Nigeria, Jamaica, Canada, America, Ghana, Pakistan, etc. The event culminated with performances and an awards presentation held in New York City. During 2007, Jimmy Spice Curry also organized a conference for parents concerned with the negative state of public schools in New York, the event was held at Nola Studios (in New York City). Jimmy Curry is also a poet with over 300 poems and several on album and movie releases.

His present productions include: Heat Beats Vol 1, and his latest production: Poetry Classics To Funky Beats, which features some of history's greatest poems. Included on the poetry compilation are poems by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

, E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

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, Kabir

Kabir

Kabīr was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement...

, Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...

, Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar was a seminal African American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 "Ode to Ethiopia", one poem in the collection Lyrics of Lowly Life....

, Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse...

, Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life...

, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century...

, Stephen Foster

Stephen Foster

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, Elizabeth Browning, James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson

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, Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...

, Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

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, Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

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, Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

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and other luminaries. A novel about the life of Jimmy Spice Curry, and a documentary are being produced and he is completing several projects including a Reggae album, a Salsa album, a kids Pop/Hip Hop album and new film ventures.

Curry was born James Curry to Jewel Bowe-Curry and Frederick Curry, and is the older brother of spoken word champion "Julian Curry" whose an artist in his own right with appearances on Def Poetry

Def Poetry

Def Poetry, also known as Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry or Def Poetry Jam, which was co-founded by Bruce George, Danny Simmons and Deborah Pointer, is an HBO television series produced by hip-hop music entrepreneur Russell Simmons. The series presents performances by established spoken word...

, in Fortune Magazine and other media. Due to the separation of his Jehovah's Witness parents he lived in many parts of the world. While living with different parents, he attended Mt. Thompson School, George Town School, Thatch Berry Primary, Uriah McPhee Primary, SC McPherson http://www.weblogbahamas.com/blog_bahamas/2009/12/sc-mcpherson-a-bright-light-on-a-hill-of-despair-in-bahamas-education.html (Graduated with BJCs) http://www.bahamaseducation.com/ea.html, CI Gibson, Yellow Elder Primary School, Oakes Field Primary, Government High School (GHS, graduated with High School diploma and GCEs) and other schools and awards. In England Jimmy Curry attended Meols Cop Comprehensive (Southport, England), and in America various schools including the Center For Media Arts (Graduated with Communications Management certificate), Brandeis High School (2nd High school diploma) Career Center, HC College (graduated with Degree), La Guardia Community College (Certification), and other business, production and arts schools. On the athletic front, in 1983, he was the national high school champion in the walk race. He is also a martial artist who has various under belts, and has competed in Gōjū-ryū, Judo

Judo

is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...

, Four Winds Kung Fu, and other martial arts styles. In 1998, he competed and won 3rd place in the "Tri-state Open Karate Championships" in the purple belt division. During the same year he competed in "Al Gotay's 9th Annual All Gojuryu Karate Championships" http://ricpascetta.com/biography/teaching-history/ and placed 1st in his division. Jimmy Spice had legendary martial artist Ron Van Clief

Ron van Clief

Ron van Clief is an American martial artist and an actor in Hollywood and Hong Kong action films. He is the father of poet Shihan van Clief.- Early life :Van Clief was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City...

as a martial arts coordinator on Curry's movie short "Gun Lordz", the anti-gun violence production.

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