Analogy

He screams out to the croud “my mind is free”, but the language he releases from that mind is secured and bound like a well melded alloy, and he hands his audience nothing less than poetry – solid and weighty. He calls himself Analogy.
And while those dear to him know him as Junior, when he takes the stage it is quickly apparent that there was no one that came before him to bestow such a secondary title.
Analogy stepped on the scene only four years ago, but his enduring passion for the craft of spoken word and his unyielding will to seek out and conquer, not only the scenes near to him in Miami – where he now lives – but in his home country Anguilla and his adopted home in The Bahamas, makes him a force to be reckoned with.
Only one week ago Analogy made his first appearance in The Bahamas at Mic Check 1-242, grasping an encore call and selling out of his second independently produced album of spoken word poetry.
“I have to claim my audience now and set the standard,” Analogy told Caribhype on his trip to The Bahamas.
His style is unique and he has defined his presence on stage. And those who have become his fans through the years have come to expect it from his performances.
While a certain familiar and often ubiquitous cadence exists in some Miami spoken word and slam poetry joints, Analogy has kept his beat fresh and unique.
“I will never conform,” he said.
A line from one of his poems contends: “I’d rather write one blazin piece and spit it for 52 weeks than go against the grain.”
With several hundred hours of stage time under his belt, courtesy of Miami’s Bohemia Room, Literary Cafe and other venues, and two independent CDs produced, Analogy is taking the next step and has sought and found a venue of his own to showcase new talent along with the Miami regulars who rose to the ranks with him.
His poetry has evolved since those early days of choking the mic and laying his head low, coy of the crowd. Now, he flails as he recites and commands his audience with audible arrogance swathed in sanguine composition.
“The reason I grip my pen so tight is because poetry is my salvation,” one of his pieces declares.
“I’m securing these word like ammo and lifting their meanings from the pages and bringing them to stages in an unyieleding attempt to exonerate and make this art change a life by doing the right thing like Spike Lee / I spit in this industry because we gat a lot of shit to fix…”
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