Artist Statement

Lyric performs spoken-word hip-hop and neo soul. In 2011 her original song, “Can’t Back Down”, was nominated for song of the year at New York City’s Underground Music Awards. She was chosen as one of the finalists for the Coors Light Sponsored, “Looking for the Coldest” MC competition where her song, “Cold as Ice” was promoted and downloaded over 22,500 times. Lyric’s song “Death of a Poet” was also nominated for Song of the Year at the 2011 Music in Media Awards in Hollywood, California. She recently challenged herself to perform on fifty mics in sixty days, a feat that took her across the United States and even to Jamaica. Making her and Independent International Hip Hop artist. Lyric is also a finalist in Hard Rock Cafe  rising star competition, and if she wins, she will perform in London in front of 40,000 people. She is currently the only female in place to run for the Chicago market.

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September 7 @ 7:00 p.m.