Mandika, born and raised in  Knoxville, Tenn., has always been a poet even when it wasn't an official title.  She began writing poetry at a very young age and didn't pick up a pen to write again until five years ago and she hasn't looked back.  She feels it's liberating to write poetry, even more so to speak it.  "To speak what rests on your mind and heart is one of the greatest gifts God gave us." She says. "We were meant to be his vessel and share his message as an act of love for him."  This is what Mandika does with poetry and spoken word.  She's a vessel of his love.

R oy Hargrove was born on October 16, 1969 in Waco, Texas. He manifested signs of musical aptitude as a young kid, and after borrowing an old Bundy cornet, was instructed from the elementary grades through junior high school by teacher Dean Hill. Hargrove soon became familiar with the recordings of Maynard Ferguson, Clifford Brown and Freddie Hubbard, and in the spring of 1987, he met the man who would galvanize his dreams of a professional career: trumpet superstar Wynton Marsalis.

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Clayton "Bigtrigger" Corley, Sr.
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