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11, 12 & 13 (Fri-Mon)
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Welcome to Poet's Letter
Kerry-Fleur
Schleifer
Songs
of Woven Spirit: Kerry-Fleur Schleifer's music CD released recently
containing music from a depth of human spirituality and breadth that
her
voice represents! Her voice is not 'genetically modified' by the market
manipulation and media orchestration or by the 'music industry' rather it is
purely a product of her being and part and parcel of who and what she is: a
pure enigmatic human being with a voice like a spring day or an autumnal
sunset or a winter's winter wonderland breezing liberty, melancholy and
depth with an endowed radiance that is natural in it. She sings and becomes
and in the process Kerry takes us to a journey that is enticing, enriching,
empowering, inviting; yet she is at times, haunting, inspiring, poignant and
profound!
Kerry-Fleur was born in
London. She grew up speaking French up to the age of four when her family
decided she needed to stop speaking French and only speak English. It was
here that her own inner voice was formed.
'Being thrown into the
incomprehensible pool of a new language sent' her, as she puts it, into
'her own cloud of thoughts.' Her emotions discovered their expressions
within sounds and gibberish words.
Today she speaks Angel Tongue
as if it were her first language. Growing up in London Kerry-Fleur made
her way through five day schools due to finding the classroom window more
necessary to her colourful imagination than the classroom
curriculum.
Dora: Water
Colour: Kerry-Fleur Schleifer
To enlarge the
image click Here
To view Kerry's
Art Works Click Here
To see Kerry's
Photography Click Here
Kerry was
Featured as one of the Featured Poets in April Issue: Read
Kerry is May
Poet in Residence 2007 at Poet's Letter: Read
At seventeen she moved to the
United States of America to complete secondary school followed by
University. She then found herself in the busy art heaven of Florence
Italy where she used to immerse herself within the Renaissance
architecture and uniquely elaborate palazzo's and let her pen spill the
poetry that inspired her so.
Paris was next and her
absorption of the articulateness of rich culture again found a special
place in her heart. Kerry-Fleur then decided to move to New York and
attended Parsons School for Design and achieved a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
It was after two years in 'the
exciting but chaotic life of the Big Apple' that Kerry-Fleur felt it was
time to return to her roots in the London where she is residing
today.
It was in her very home town
that she felt the confidence to start what she felt was always so
intrinsic to her: her singing voice; the part of her that spoke when her
words had ceased speaking.
She discovered her chance to
shine within the London bars and clubs and soon was receiving invitations
to perform proper sets at some of the better venues and soon formed
collaborations with various other musicians of diverse styles.
It has been extremely important
to Kerry-Fleur to allow her expression its freedom of style. Primarily a
jazz improvisational singer she also feels a great passion for folk,
blues, and verging at times on the hauntingly operatic.
She says her voice is her soul
coming alive and can only be released through a pure emotional dialogue
with what she feels. Ever since she used to sing lullabies to send her
friends to sleep she has felt a deep therapeutic.
"Art, so purposeful in its
own right." Kerry-Fleur's motto to explain her deeper purpose in her
singing which is part of her living and being.
Kerry makes her soul flow out into her silky velvet voice that
enriches us while astounds our senses and invites and dares us to leave out
the inhibitions behind and follow her like a wonder bound child who does not
have any cynicism or poisonous what ifs: get on with the journey with her
music and do not set or seek out any goals but just take the journey itself
as its rewards! And there Kerry will have taught you how to live your soul
through listening to her music! Absolutely magnificent in her range and
radiance she is a great musician, vocalist who ought to be listened to!
www.myspace.com/fatbenjamin
This
what she had to say about her singing and music:
An Improvised State of Affairs
Here
is what I am.
This is how I be,
How I see,
see
to be free.
Each part of me
is
woven out of
an other's hand of wonder.
At the device of
the spinning wheel.
The gold gathered
from above.
Which clasped through
the solo box,
box of darkness
Becomes one
with all who
see through sound.
My chords of voice
echo
who you all
are.
This is my compilation.
An
improvised state of Affairs.
I reckon with the abstract elements.
I, click into their wonder.
Wonderment.
Lavish
Lush.
My stupid serenity of silence.
A truth of knowing
unheeded by
knowledge.
At
Dog Star, Brixton Photo: Simon Green With Maggie
Sullivan, Philip Ruthen and Munayem Mayenin
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Kerry
Fleur Schleifer @ Poet's Letter Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden: April 9th
Poet's Letter
Poetry Performance and Live Music at Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street
(Covent Garden): Monday, April 9th, 7 p.m. (Second Mondays) Munayem
Mayenin, Sarah Wardle, Kerry Fleur Schleifer
and Five Poets in
Residence at 3rd London Poetry Festival 2007:
Briony Dennis, Inua Ellams, Juli Jeana, Tom
Chivers and Tricia Peak
Live music: Kerry Fleur Schleifer,
Johnny Vallon and David Pelling and
Open Mic as usual. Tickets:
5/3 Cons. For more info write to: editor at
poetsletter dot com .
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Kerry Fleur
Schleifer @ Dogstar, Brixton on International Women's Day March 8, 2007
Kerry
sang and presented the event in celebration of International Women's Day
along with poets Sarah Wardle, Maggie Sullivan and singer Ayanna
Witter-Johnson and DJ Mary Jane Coles. The event's organised by Lambeth Arts
in association with Pretty Petty Thieves and Shola Aleje. Photo: Simon Green
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For
more about Kerry-Fleur Schleifer www.kerryfleur.com
Poet's
Letter would like to express its thanks to Kerry Fleur Schleifer for her
co-operation and help in support of this presentation.
The
Black and White Photo Credited to Tito Batista
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London Poetry Festival 2007
Read
more about the five Poets in Residence @ 3rd London Poetry Festival 2007
August
10, 11, 12 and 13 (Friday-Monday)
Briony
Dennis, Inua Ellams, Julie Jeana, Tom Chivers and Tricia Peak.
Come and
listen their performance on February 12th, Monday, 7 pm at Poetry Cafe, 22
Betterton Street, Covent Garden. For further info call 07809 682 065 or write to
editor at poetsletter dot com
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