Beat maker, recording artist, father, explorer. Music placements: NFL, Xfinity, Netflix, BET. Beats for KRS-One, Rittz, Myka 9. 

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You should check me on itunes or 
even bandcamp if u search hard enough.
But you should also buy casette, cd and vinyl somewhere on bigcartel...soon, promise

 Judith Sloan is an audio artist, writer, radio producer, human rights activist, actor, and poet whose work combines humor, pathos and a love of the absurd. For over twenty years, Sloan has been producing and presenting interdisciplinary works in audio and theater, portraying voices often ignored by the mass media. Her solo performances and plays include: Denial of the Fittest (nominated for best comedy performance at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival), Responding to Chaos, Peace is Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Kill, A Tattle Tale: eyewitness in Mississippi, and Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America. Her commentaries, plays, poetry and documentaries have aired on National Public Radio, New York Public Radio, WBEZ Chicago, PRI, BBC, and listener sponsored stations throughout the U.S. Sloan has received awards for her audio mixes, radio documentaries and work with various musicians integrating storytelling, acting, sampling and multiple languages into symphonic pieces, live performance with actors and musicians, and radio. Sloan was commissioned to write the libretto for 1001 Voices: A Symphony for a New America, with music by Frank London and animations by Warren Lehrer, which premiered in April 2012 by the Queens Symphony Orchestra. Her multi-layered theater work has been produced in theatres and festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad including: LaMama E.T.C, The Public Theatre, The Theatre Workshop (Edinburgh, Scotland), The Smithsonian Institution, the Market Theatre (Johannesburg, SA), etc. She has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Theatre Week, The London Stage, San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Her recent play, YO MISS! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide (2012) is being developed in collaboration with Morgan Jenness from Abrams Artist Agency. She received a 2013 individual artist grant from Queens Council on the Arts to write and perform a new piece using a combination of music, sound and voice called, Anecdotal Evidence. 

When you mix that authentic New York Hip-Hop "Boom Bap" sound with mind blowing lyricism and love for self and kind, you get Merc...The Goddess Emcee. 
Mercedes Barnes, better known as Merc The Big Body Benz (formerly known as Young Merc) is a wicked warrior emcee from Jamaica, Queens. After watching her older cousin write and spit rhymes, Merc decided to write her first verse at the age of ten. That was the birth of Young Merc.

It wasn't until the age of 20 that she released her first mixtape on Reverbnation entitled: "The Big Body Benz Mixtape" under the name of Young Merc, New Years of 2010. 
In February of 2014 Merc reintroduced herself to the rap game under the new name  "Merc The Big Body Benz" and was invited to perform with a good friend and colleague, Path P, and naturally she fell in love with the stage. Her first solo performance was at Lit Lounge in April of 2014, and while tearing down show after show she and her husband welcomed a son in November of that same year. Since then she has performed at venues such as R Bar, Revolution Bar, Hail Hail Bar, The Paperbox, The Back Drop, Gold Sounds, and The Bishop Gallery to name a few. 
On July 25, 2016, Merc released a free EP entitled "Belated Arrival" on her birthday, signifying the long wait for her music is over. "Belated Arrival" has received praise and critical acclaim for her lyrical abilities and creativity. "Belated Arrival" 
is currently available for download at Mercthebigbodybenz.bandcamp.com.

In August of 2016, Merc created the "Big Body Bars" Performance Series, a group of Hip Hop concerts she put together to provide an opportunity for other lyricists to showcase their art and talent. In between performing her current EP and hosting her concert series, Merc is working on her upcoming album, "Femininity Weaponized" as well as two collaborative albums, one of which will be an entirely acoustic project. While it may have been a belated arrival...Merc has definitely arrived.

With songs in Arabic & English, Kuwaisiana is a bilingual alt rock trio based in Seattle-Tacoma 🇰🇼🇺🇸🇵🇸

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