Amanda Diva and Flo Fader

In the summer of 2001 Amanda Diva burst onto the poetry scene as a spoken word emcee who’s style, an energetic blend of hip-hop and Black history, humor and intensity, strength and intelligence, stood out from the now exploding poetry scene. The honesty of Miss Diva’s work is felt through her combination of a powerful singing voice and a powerful inner voice, which she melds together to create her unique exuberant style of performance. Addressing issues of politics as well as everyday occurrences and headaches that everyone deals with, Amanda Diva puts them in an explosive rhyme format that forces the highest sadiddy to come down to earth, and the most thorough thug to awaken his intellect.

“Diva Deev” has blessed mics from Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam (2002) and Jessie Jackson’s “Rainbow Push” benefit (2003), to New York City’s world famous NuYorican Poet’s Café (two time Grand-Slam Semi Finalist), the Lyricist Lounge, Caroline’s Comedy Club, the Rush Arts Gallery, Jimmy’s Uptown Café, the Sugar Shack (Slam Winner), the Boston Comedy Club, SOB’s, the Bowery Poetry Club, Nell’s (Slam Winner), and more to New Jersey’s Bogie’s Night Club, Euphoria, and Nunno’s. She also burned down the stage with her lyrics from the University of Miami to the University of North Carolina Wilmington and others. Along with hitting the stages of college campuses across the U.S. as a poet, she has also served as poet and guest speaker/panelist on hip-hop along side Kurtis Blow and Nikki Giovanni at the illustrious Texas A & M University.

A lover of music you can catch Amanda filling the roll as the “face of hip-hop” for MTV2 (Hip Hop Countdown) and also hear her rockin’ the airwaves at Sirius Satellite Radio Monday through Friday from 7am-2 EST. on “Hip-hop Nation,” where she has interviewed the likes of Outkast, Lloyd Banks, Jadakiss, Kanye West, Talib Kweli, Ghostface Killa, Dead Prez, Omar Epps, David Banner, and more.

Always trying to raise the bar, Amanda Diva is a creative artist who seeks to use song and hip-hop to take poetry to another level. Changing the game, she has recently released her first mixtape of “It’s Bigger than Hip-hop, The Mixtape: Vol. 1” combining her poems with today and yesterday’s hottest beats! Her vocals can also be found on her own Spoken Word/ Soul cd “Never a Dull Moment”. A graduate of SUNY Purchase (2003) with a Bachelor of the Arts in Liberal Arts in Black Studies with a concentration in the Visual and Performing Arts, she culminated her four years by producing, directing, and writing, her one woman show, Musical People: How Black Music Moves the Black Experience at the H.E.R.E. Theater in Manhattan, New York.

She is currently attending Columbia University as a graduate student in their African American Studies Master’s Program and in the final stages of releasing her first volume of poetry, Young Skin, Wise Mind, Old Soul.

A lyrical cardiologist who rhymes from the heart, she considers herself a contemporary hip-hop poet, representing the voice of consciousness that is currently far too lacking in hip-hop music.