ITALIAN RAPPER RELEASES NEW MUSIC VIDEO ON YOUTUBE

Il Guerrioro (The Warrior)

WHEN: The music video will be released on Saturday, May 7, 2021
WHERE: Youtube

After a 15-year hiatus, Jaemes Dean, Italian rapper, returns with the release of his new music video.

Sebastian Bellofiore Gubser, aka Jaemes Dean, was born in Switzerland from Italian and Dominican parents. He has lived in Zurich, Switzerland, Milan and in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Jaemes is fluent  in 4 languages, can rap it at least 2  and has written songs in 3 languages. 

Currently living in New York City, he has decided to go back to his main love of composing music. As a teenager, he listened to metal music, Megadeth, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Korn, and Limp Bizkit. He then later moved on to death and black metal and thanks to metal he started playing guitar, and formed his first musical group, which allowed him to move in another direction several years later.

He knew of Eminem, and other rappers, from his debut album "Slim Shady LP", but it wasn't before listening to Kaos's "Precious Things" in 2003 that he really understood the potential of rap. The way Kaos wrote and the vibe that his songs had, made him see a side of rap that he didn't know and fascinated him alot.

Like so many other times in his life and after so many years in music, he was hungry for something different and new. He wanted to learn how to do something else, So he started coding, designing landed a job working for Google as a Product Designer.

Jaemes wrote Il Guerriero (The Warrior) in 2008, when his high school friend, Giuseppe, passed away and Jaemes never got to say goodbye. It's a tribute to Giuseppe, who's father called him "The Warrior."  The song turned into a story, where a warrior who says goodbye to friends and family before going to war.  His war was the struggle against (or for) life, which in the end he loses.  Since we don't always have the chance to say goodbye, he ends the song by greeting him with "un abbracio, una firma con tanto affetto, Seba," which means "A hug, a signature, truly yours, Seba."  

Please follow Jaemes Dean on Spotify: jaemes.co/spotify 

https://linktr.ee/jaemesdean

Celebrate Black History Month at UCPAC!

RAISIN: A Musical
an adaptation of the Lorraine Hansberry play A Raisin in the Sun, with music by Judd Woldin and Lyrics by Robert Brittan
Director Khy Garner
Conducted by Teddy Kernizan

WHEN: Sat Feb 08, 2020 7:00 PM
WHERE: UCPAC Mainstage, 1601 Irving St., Rahway, NJ
TICKETS: free
FREE TICKETS

Through the combined sponsorship of the County of Union, City of Rahway, and the Union County Performing Arts Center, a free presentation of Raisin will be presented at the UCPAC Main Stage. This event kicks off a month-long celebration featuring programming honoring Black History Month.

ICE-T

WHEN: Sat Feb 15, 2020 8:00 PM
WHERE: UCPAC Mainstage, 1601 Irving St., Rahway, NJ
TICKETS: VIP tickets ($129.00 tickets closest to the stage) include a 30-minute, pre-show VIP party at 6:30 PM with Ice-T himself! Limited to 60 patrons only!
Use code: UCPAC20 for 20% Ice-T tickets!
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Since coming onto the rap scene in the 1980s, Ice-T has made a name for himself not only as a legendary rapper and songwriter, but also as an actor, record producer, and author. In addition to his solo career, Ice-T co-founded the heavy metal band Body Count, which released their first self-titled album in 1992. He has also appeared in both film and television, his roles including NYPD Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola, who he's played since 2000 on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.

On his first solo tour in years, see this rap legend with Jersey roots tear up UCPAC’s Main Stage.

Ho99o9 Brings Grindhouse Blend of Rap & Punk to White Eagle Hall

Ho99o9 (Pink Mass, GDP, The Bennys)

WHEN: Wednesday, November 22, Doors: 8:00/Show: 9:00
WHERE: White Eagle Hall, 335-337 Newark Avenue, Jersey City
TICKETS: $15 - $18.71
To purchase tickets, visit: www.WhiteEagleHallJC.com

In their last state-side show before kicking off a major European tour, the hip-hop phenomenon Ho99o9 (pronounced Horror and also known as HO99O9 DEATH KULT) plays White Eagle Hall in Jersey City.

Ho99o9 songs feature apolitical and dystopian horror imagery, combining dark experimental hip-hop with the aggression of hardcore punk. The White Eagle Hall gig is a homecoming of sorts for Ho99o9. The group was founded in New Jersey by the OGM, who grew up in Elizabeth and Linden, and Eaddy—raised in Newark and Union. But to find success they headed west. The duo relocated to Los Angeles in 2014, where a series of incendiary performances attracted an enthusiastic cult-following and the notice of critics, who raved about their blending of diverse musical genres. LA Weekly to declare: “Their music features noise and rap, but their anti-establishment, post-conformist ethos is 100 percent punk rock.”

Rolling Stone named Ho99o9 as one of the "10 New Artists You Need to Know" and The Guardian named Ho99o9 as "New Band of the Week.” The band also performed at the Afropunk Festival and the SXSW Music Festival, a show described by Jon Pareles of the New York Times as “… at SXSW, Ho99o9 was a welcome charge of adrenaline.”

Ho99o9 has toured extensively in the U.K. and Europe, including a high-profile gigs at the Reading and Leads music festivals. About their grindhouse ethos, music eclecticism and multinational fan-base, an official bio from the band says “The first spores of Ho99o9 were identified by the CDC’s infectious disease unit in the outsourced offices of purgatory that are peppered all throughout New Jersey in places like Linden, Elizabeth and Newark… A congregation gathered in a scene of like-minded mutants and L.A. quickly became the HQ of Ho99o9. More minions manifest with Horror spores started spreading all throughout North America and the European Union - a pandemic of fools gettin' woke as the fringe becomes the majority.”

After well-received Eps – Mutant Freax and Horrors of 1999 – Ho99o9 released their first-full length album, the United States of Horror, in May. The new songs may be more political, but the band’s motifs of mayhem, gore and horror have never been more cutting. As Pitchfork raved, “Ho99o9 see a party in the West’s spiral towards oblivion—and United States of Horror is a compelling invitation.”

Opening for Ho99o9 are Pink Mass, a hard-care band from Montclair who are self-described as “militant necrosexual satanic hedonists,” GDP (the stage name for Matthew Miller), hip-hop artist from West Orange, and The Benny’s, a New Jersey-based Rock & Roll band.

Originally constructed in 1910, the newly restored White Eagle Hall is an impressive new venue for arts and entertainment, including concerts, theater, performances and other events in the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. White Eagle Hall features complete food & beverage service, with two bars on the mezzanine level and one on the balcony level. The restoration enhanced the intimacy and charm of this historic venue while adding the latest in sound and lighting technology, creating a distinctive and memorable audience experience.

COMING UP @ NJPAC

The Gipsy Kings featuring Nicolas Reyes and Tonino Baliardo WHEN: Thu, Jun 29 @ 7:30PM These GRAMMY®-winning world music superstars return to NJPAC! Produced in association with John Scher/Metropolitan Entertainment buy tickets

Art of Rap: DMX / Raekwon Ghostface Killah / Mobb Deep O50 / Harlem 6 / Mysonne WHEN: Fri, Jun 30 @ 8PM Some of the best-known artists in hip-hop! DMX, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Mobb Deep, O50, Harlem 6 and Mysonne. buy tickets

Bell Biv DeVoe, SWV & Dru Hill Three Stripes Tour WHEN: Fri, Jul 21 @ 8PM A triple dose of R&B, soul and hip-hop with three of the hottest vocal groups: Bell Biv DeVoe, SWV and Dru Hill. buy tickets

All the right grooves NJPAC’s Jazz Advisor, the GRAMMY-winning bassist Christian McBride, spreads the good word about jazz programming for the Arts Center’s 20th anniversary season – and check out all the famous friends he’s bringing along. more

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