Cleveland Watkiss - Vocal Warrior
Cleveland Watkiss
Date - 25th October 2017
Venue - A World In London, Resonance FM, London, UK
Future Performance
Ubiquitous musical
treasure & vocal warrior, Cleveland Watkiss on this A World in
London!
Click to listen:
https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-world-in-london-25th-october-2017/
We caught up with Cleveland between some Sound
Spas and his forthcoming date at The Vortex on Nov 6th as part of
this year’s London International Arts Festival. Ever-evolving, it’s
impossible to confine him to one genre, one era, or one skill, but
suffice to say that the man that’s won the best vocalist
Parliamentary Jazz Award 2017 is our man in the studio. A MOBO might
be on its way too, and not before time. On this show you’ll get
some sense of the journeys Cleveland has travelled in rhyme, as a
virtuoso vocalist, composer, music educator, and actor. His early
days in the 80’s with Lovers Rock queen Carroll Thompson, and The
Jazz Warriors, followed by the heady 90’s drum n’ bass scene with
Goldie & the Metalheadz crew in Hoxton’s Blue Note. There’s
been collaborations with first-gen African greats like Sona Jobarteh,
Tunde Jegede, and Kasse Mady too, but the collaborator list is
endless and giant-filled. Watch out for his new project Collective
X, whose debut album cover has been designed by AWIL resident artist
Alban Low. Our first live session with Cleveland on this AWIL left us
with a lot of unfinished business, but rest assured that this
conversation is to be resumed...
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25/10/17 – AWIL at Res 141 Online:
https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-world-in-london-25th-october-2017/
Production & pics by Sofia Gaetani-Morris, Norman Druker, Sophie
Darling & sketches by Alban Low. Also this week a Addictive TV at
SOAS Radio. Next week Sheila Chandra at SOAS & Tse Tse Fly Middle
East at Resonance! #AWorldinLondon – IN ITS ELEVENTH YEAR!
Live on Wednesdays 6.30pm Resonance 104.4 www.resonancefm.com & 4pm
SOAS Radio mixlr.com/soasradio
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