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Abiodun Oyewole (born Charles Davis, February 1948), is a poet, teacher and member of the African-American music and spoken-word group The Last Poets, which developed into what is considered to be the first hip hop group.
27 de abr. de 2023 · ABIODUN OYEWOLE, a founding member of The Last Poets, is the editor of Black Lives Have Always Mattered (2017), author of the Beauty of Being (2018) and the poetry collection, Branches of the Tree Of Life: The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole 1969-2013 (2014), and is the
ABIODUN OYEWOLE is a poet, author, teacher, and a founding member of the American music and spoken-word group The Last Poets, which laid the groundwork for the emergence of hip-hop. Abiodun Oyewole was born Charles Davis in Cincinnati, Ohio and grew up in Queens, New York.
Abiodun Oyewole was born Charles Davis on February 25, 1948 in Cincinnati, Ohio. At the age of three, he moved to Queens, New York, with his maternal aunt and her new husband. He was greatly influenced by the jazz and gospel music they played and by poets like Langston Hughes.
18 de may. de 2018 · Abiodun Oyewole, Baba Donn Babatunde, and Umar Bin Hassan. Photograph: PR. Last Poets drummer Baba Donn Babatunde drops by and Oyewole introduces him as the heartbeat of the group.
4 de feb. de 2022 · Gratitude is the eagerly anticipated new solo album from Abiodun Oyewole, the poet, teacher and founding member of The Last Poets. The album liner notes include an extensive new interview with Abiodun himself, detailing the writing process of the album.
Abiodun Oyewole grew up Charles Davis in Queens, NY. Listening to his parents' jazz and gospel records and studying Langston Hughes and other great poets in school helped nurture Oyewole's love...
