MY THANX!!!!
The news is very true, I will be attending the 2010 GRAMMY Awards in Los Angeles, California on January 31st 2010. The nomination is in the Best Musical Album for Children category for my collaboration with Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer resulting in a project we call, Banjo to Beatbox. In addition to the nomination, I will be performing at the GRAMMY Museum in LA with Cathy & Marcy on January 30th. It is my mission to do more collaborative projects like this to merge worlds together. I am very honored to be supported by the diverse communities that nurtured my creativity such as the DC Spoken-Word/Poetry/Open-Mike Scene, Strathmore, Cathy & Marcy, Duke Ellington School of the Arts & DCPS in general, DC Village Homeless Shelter for Families, which I am a product-of, Southeast and all of DC that gave me lessons & stories that I will continue to carry with me as I travel. This nomination is a very-big deal for me but is simply meaningless without the family structure and the support that everyone has given me from being a kid in Southeast, DC, writing rhymes in the Section 8 housing projects, to traveling to places where African-Americans are seldom seen and opening their minds to realize our connection!
Thank you, Everyone for your support and shaping my perspectives! This is now OUR nomination as a community!!!!
- Christylez Bacon
*** I will be documenting the journey via website & twitter under the hashtag #SE2GRAMMY ***
I love it! This is so great chris! congrats
Hi Christon, you probably don’t remember me because you were so young when I last saw you but I am your cousin from Memphis, TN. I just wanted to congratulae you on your nomination. It in itself is an honor but I pray that you will walk away with the grammy. I will be cheering you on Grammy night. Keep on being a positive role model! P.S When are you doing a concert in Memphis? I’d love to come to one of your concerts.
Continue that way ! Congratulations !
Thank you very much for the support Yohan!
Chris… WOW! “The Road” is proud of you!
Mark
Hey Mark!!!!
Thank you very much! I hope to see ya’ll soon!
Congratulations and best of luck that night, we will all be thinking of you out here on the shore!
James Weber
Caroline County Parks & Recreation
Thank you very much!!!! I can’t wait to visit the shore again!!!!