 |
     |
Plays: 6757
Views: 1589 |
Formed: 1978
Official Site: www.myspace.com/queenspeaksword
iSound Site: www.isound.com/queen_unique
|
|
|
| Katrina L. Shanks a.k.a. Queen Unique was raised in a small city where creativity such as the arts and poetry was taboo. It was not “hip” to be artsy and different in Fort Myers, Florida. While the children in her neighborhood wanted to play house, sports and to dance…Katrin |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Katrina L. Shanks a.k.a. Queen Unique was raised in a small city where creativity such as the arts and poetry was taboo. It was not “hip” to be artsy and different in Fort Myers, Florida. While the children in her neighborhood wanted to play house, sports and to dance…Katrina wanted to play school, read and write. She was obviously cut from a different fabric and this soon made her an outcast to the other kids and her social involvement decreased. Eventually influenced by the majority, Katrina conformed to her friends and neighbors beliefs and suppressed this divine gift that was granted to her by the Creator.
After experiencing many ups and downs in life Katrina secretly continued to use poetry as her private outlet and as a result, her talent continued to flourish. In late 2005 (as corny as it may sound) Katrina had hit rock bottom and resorted to a simple prayer over a fortune cookie. Her faith in God and herself had been tarnished to a point where she believed in only what was tangible. She asked the Lord to make the paper in that cookie deliver any message that she may not be hearing from Him because her senses had been impaired by worldly things. When she opened that cookie, it read, “Go Confidently in the Direction of Your Dreams”. This simple epiphany helped her to emerge from her shell, restore her faith into the “Invisible to do the Impossible” and finally release her passion to the masses. Public reaction has since agreed and Queen Unique has published her first book of poetry and thoughts entitled “A Mile in My Heels: A Personal Compilation of Wordplay”, written articles for magazines, read at poetry venues and is currently recording her debut spoken word C.D. trilogy (three parts: Spirit, Heart and Body) “Queen Speaks”. Katrina has been writing since the age of nine and her key weapons are the power of her voice, her unabashed honesty, confidence, style and uninhibited viewpoint.
Ms. Shanks is active with the N.A.A.C.P., a member of the National Black Writers and Artist Association, Black on Black Rhyme and The Black Poetry Café. She also plays a lead role in many other companies such as her fashion design, personal shopping and stylist company, “Her Highness Images”, her freelance writing company “Queen’s Pen” and is also in the process of implementing a women’s book club “Erudite Aphrodite”. She is working towards her degree in Graphic Design and has many other goals and plans for the near future including re-starting "Acoustic Affairs", a vocal and visual arts venue (with business partner, Mr. 239) which is currently on a short hiatus. Katrina can compose a diverse array of original pieces of prose ranging from love, sex, heritage, black history, religion, politics or life itself in general therefore; there is no limit to her subject matter.
What Queen Unique does is in a genre of its’ own. It can’t be classified as poetry, hip hop, spoken word, rap, soul, prose or R&B. It bridges the gaps between all of these into that perfect equilibrium. Her Christianity dashes a hint of gospel into her tone, her heritage and ethnicity lays down a hint of soul and jazz, heartache and love brings the flavor of R&B and her beauty, maturity and sexuality are undeniable. All of these components plus more combine to make her into true royalty. This is QUEEN UNIQUE.
You can find more of her work at blogher.com/queenunique, editred.com/queenunique and TimBookTu.com.
Her spoken word audio is available for review at soundclick.com/queenunique, isound.com, myspace.com/queenspeaksword, myspace.com/acousticaffairsaudiopage and those tracks can be requested for radio airplay at Vocalizedink.org.
Information on her other companies is temporarily available at myspace.com/eruditeaphrodite, myspace.com/queenspen and myspace.com/herhighnessimages.
Her first book can be purchased at amazon.com, publishamerica.com, booksamillion.com, publishedauthors.net/queenunique, barnesandnoble.com, sell.com and occasionally on ebay.com.
Some causes that Queen Unique speaks on and stands up for include but are not limited to: Save Darfur, Autism Speaks, spreading AIDS and HIV awareness, any benefits for the children and families in Sierra Leone and the importance of parental involvement in our children’s education.
The sequel to A Mile in My Heels, titled "The Tracks of Life: Inside Out" is set to be published in 2008, followed by her first fiction novel in late 2008 and a series of motivational stories for young, ethnic girls in 2009, titled "The Little Light of Mine" with illustrations by her daughters. Her trilogy CD: "Queen Speaks: Spirit, Heart and Body" has a tentative release date of June 2008 so please stay tuned for more.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Facebook
Twitter
Contact Artist
Add to Profile
Add to station