Episode Six: Moody Black

Apr 29, 2020

 

He is something like a homegrown talent that hails from Spartanburg, S.C. Moody Black is the face and founder of Moody Black Enterprises. He is also a TEDx performer that brings a whole lot more to the table. He is a national Award-Winning Poet and host, a Smart Arts Teaching Artist, Motivational Speaker, Spoken-Word and Visual Artist, Actor/Voice Over Artist, Chess Instructor, Storyteller, and Comedian.

 

Moody Black has been a performing artist since the age of eleven.   He found a book on his mother's shelf in the hallway of their house entitled “This Time Called Life” by Walter Rinder. It was about being young and free. The book spoke to me. It allowed him to go back and appreciate the greats (Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman, etc). After that, he began writing more in school and entering contests. In junior high school, the students would ridicule him for reading out loud and sharing poems. However, by high school poetry all sudden became cool. Guys would ask Moody to write poems for their girlfriends. That’s how he learned to enterprise.  He would charge money to write poems and felt like he had won in the end. And here he is now, doing poetry for a living.

 

He has become a prominent force across the nation through his enthusiastic live shows and strong work ethic.

Currently residing in Greenville, S.C. Moody Black focus is to electrify audiences across the country with his original poems and energetic performances. Fusing a blend of Hip-Hop, Soul, and Poetry, the talented artist delivers a unique rhythmic message in which each new listener finds common ground.

Moody Black has performed at several elementary, junior and senior high schools, universities, and colleges. He is a Poetry Slam Master and Coach Poem with works published in Still Home (Book of Spartanburg Poets). He has been a featured artist at dozens of festivals including the Travelers Rest Arts Commission annual Arts Festival, North Charleston Arts Festival, Stone Soup Story Telling Festival in Woodruff, S.C., the Annual Piccolo Spoleto Festival, the Peace Day Festival in Charleston, S.C., the annual Chautaugua Festival, and the 3rd Annual Millican Festival in Sumter, S.C. Even more, Moody Black has opened for multi-platinum recording artists Trey Songz and Lyfe Jennings.

In the future, Moody has plans is to apply his arts integration across the globe. In addition, he wants to perform his art everywhere. He also hopes to finish his Hip-Hop project “Manifest”, a compilation of personal stories and inspiration and eventually establish a business where I can make money while I sleep. And not to mention his aspirations to serve as a professor at a university, teaching poetry.

To learn more about Moody Black, please visit his website at www.iammoodyblack.com

Please click on the following link to read the edition of Huami Magazine that Moody Black is featured in:  https://issuu.com/terrywatson7/docs/huami_magazine_greenville_march_2020

You can also follow him on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter by putting Moody Black in your search box.

You can learn more information about Huami Magazine by visiting www.mykelmedia.com