Somebody Spotlight is where I get to fea­ture YOU on Tales of a Literary Nobody. Many of you are involved in great causes that work towards mak­ing this world a bet­ter place through music, art, writ­ing, com­mu­nity projects, your pro­fes­sion and your life. We all have a story to tell and many are remark­able ones that don’t get the kind of notice they deserve. This page is for you.

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• Great Performances: The les­son we can learn from the life of Ryan Smith (1976 — 2008) Tenor

  30-​year-​old Ryan Smith audi­tioned in 2007 for The Metropolitan Opera’s National Council for an oppor­tu­nity to per­form on their stage. He did. One year later he was dead.

• Killing me softly with his song: The life and death of Bassist Dewey Tucker

  Dewey Tucker was a 24-​year-​old bass player who got the oppor­tu­nity to tour the world at a very young age play­ing with Lauryn Hill. Sadly Dewey was killed in what police believe to be a ran­dom shoot­ing.

• Rapper David Banner sparks a rev­o­lu­tion with Gatorade’s “Evolve”

  The song “Evolve” is in Gatorade’s new cam­paign for it’s G Series drink. Imagine my sur­prise when I learned that the song was writ­ten, pro­duced and arranged by rap­per David Banner.

• The Imagine Project: Herbie Hancock and Global Unity through Music

  One part of glob­al­iza­tion that has a ben­e­fit to every­one is in the area of music. Herbie Hancock believes this too. His lat­est work The Imagine Project will fea­ture artists of var­i­ous back­grounds like Anoushka Shnakar, Pink, Seal, John leg­end, Konono No. 1, Dave Matthews, Chaka Khan, Wayne Shorter, Oumou Sangare and many more. It will be released June 21^st.

• Somebody Spotlight: Nickie Goomba

  This week the Somebody Spotlight shines on blog­ger Nickie Goomba.