Verbswish
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Early career
Despite encouragement from others to rap to beats, and his own fascination with alternative hip-hop, [verb]swish opted for his own approach, writing all the words first and then drafting in producer, Gavin Holligan to score the album. The result was the Arts CouncilArts Council England
Arts Council England was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three separate bodies for England, Scotland and Wales. It is a non-departmental public body of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport...
-sponsored scored.words.in.spoken.harmony demo EP which was launched at the Roundhouse
Roundhouse
A roundhouse is a building used by railroads for servicing locomotives. Roundhouses are large, circular or semicircular structures that were traditionally located surrounding or adjacent to turntables...
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Debut Album
On the 12 of November 2010 Verbswish released his debut CD "Teach-err, Teach-err -The Lessons Learnt" a 11 Track CD produced by Gavin Holligan.Influences
[verb]swish influences reflect a long-standing fascination with turn of phrase and observation across 20th century media, including Lauryn HillLauryn Hill
Lauryn Noelle Hill is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress.Early in her career, she established her reputation as a member of the Fugees. In 1998, she launched her solo career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album, The Miseducation of...
, Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
, Mos Def
Mos Def
Dante Terrell Smith is an American actor and Emcee known by the stage names Mos Def and Yasiin Bey. He started his hip hop career in a group called Urban Thermo Dynamics, after which he appeared on albums by Da Bush Babees and De La Soul. With Talib Kweli, he formed the duo Black Star, which...
, Jerry Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld
Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and television and film producer, known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the situation comedy Seinfeld , which he co-created and co-wrote with Larry David, and, in the show's final two seasons,...
, Gil Scott Heron, C.S Lewis
Invitations
- Between 2005 - 2009 he appeared at a number of Arts CouncilArts Council EnglandArts Council England was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three separate bodies for England, Scotland and Wales. It is a non-departmental public body of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport...
-sponsored events and as a visiting tutor of creative writing at the National Youth TheatreNational Youth TheatreThe National Youth Theatre is a registered charity in London, Great Britain, committed to creative, personal and social development of young people through the medium of creative arts....
. - Having compered the historic re-opening of the Roundhouse Studios, he was invited to write and recite a poem at the retirement of Roundhouse chairman and philanthropist, Sir Torquil NormanTorquil NormanSir Torquil Patrick Alexander Norman CBE is a British businessman, aircraft enthusiast, and arts philanthropist.-Life:An Old Etonian, graduate of Harvard and Trinity College, Cambridge, he stands 6' 7". Torquil gained his pilot’s licence at eighteen, did National Service in the Fleet Air Arm and...
to an audience that included the then Minister for Culture Media and Sport, Tessa JowellTessa JowellTessa Jowell is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Dulwich and West Norwood since 1992. Formerly a member of both the Blair and Brown Cabinets, she is currently the Shadow Minister for the Olympics and Shadow Minister for London.-Early life:Tessa Jane...