Infinite Life
Life is Art!
Infinite Life
Eye Whill Write William Wright-El has featured in venues from coast to coast. He is a three time Slam Champion of the Moxi poetry Slam in Savannah, Georgia and featured on the syndicated show "The Chop Shop". He has opened for noted artists Musiq Soul Child, The Last Poets and Isis, featured in the film "Maintenance" and starred in the independent short film "Theodore" in which he was nominated as Best Actor in the S.C.A.D. Film Festival in 2005. A professional Actor, Beat Box Master, Spoken Word Artist and Writer, Eye Whill Write is also an educator that specializes in working with troubled youth and utilizes the traditional roles of the Griot and modern artforms to engage, encourage, heal and provide a positive outlet for creative expression. He spearheaded the Performance Poetry club at Mathematics Civics & Sciences Charter School and is the Coach of the Sankofa Academy Charter School Team for the 2008 Heritage Bowl, where he is also an instructor .
Former Member - Zanora "Zen Aura" El, a Professional Singer/Songwriter/Spoken Word Artist/Laureate and Dancer fine-tuned her theatrical skills in Professional Musical Theater productions such as "Little Shop of Horrors", "Ain't Misbehavin" & "Showboat" at Three Little Bakers Dinner Theater in Delaware. In 2006 she opened Off-Broadway in an original Egyptian dance for the first time, choreographed by Janis Jenkins. Currently under the tutelage of North/West African Dancer/Instructor, Mama Asantewaa and mentored by International North African Dance Master Khalida Kali, Zanora is a North African (Egyptian/Moroccan) & Tribal dance specialist whose repertoire also includes traditional dances of Brazil and East Asia. In 2007 she became an associate of the Belly Dancers of Color Association (B.O.C. A.), was blessed to perform alongside tribal dancers from North, Central & South America at the Awakening Concert/Powwow & Gathering of Indigenous Nations in Perth, Ontario Canada and was installed into the House of Congas as a featured dancer with renowned Afro-Latin-Jazz Percussionists. Zanora holds classes at S.I.S. Fitness as well as community based programs on honoring the Sacred Feminine through this ancient art-form which originated in Ancient Kemet. She is a 2008 Contestant in the Internationally attended and acclaimed Jewel of the Nile Belly Dance Pageant. She is featured on the Albums of Lil Drumma Boy Recording Artist Uva, Hip-Hop group N.O.K, vocalist with jazz fusion band Hip Soul. A Rising Soul/Jazz Singer, she's performed in the West Oak Lane Jazz Festival, Clifford Brown Jazz Festival as Soloist with the Duke Ellington Sacred Jazz Choir, Bob Marley People's Festival in the hometown they once shared Wilmington, Delaware and graced the stage with Jazz, Blues, Funk Legends as Host of Live at Taylor's in Norristown, PA.
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Lerone
Lerone Luster is a well seasoned muscian, who fined tuned his skill on the campus of Lincon University, as well as the jazz scene in Philadelphia. His eclectic style is constantly evolving as he hones and expands his skills as a pecussionist specializing in African, Latin, Hip-Hop drum rhythms with added jazz guitar stylization. He is a creative spirit that has the ability to compose versus of prose on conga and jimba drums, accoustic and bass guitar and piano. A man of many talents, magnanimous creative expression and few words, the aristry and the Spirit of the Ancestors through him does the talking.
Members of Infinite Life have toured with the National Black Arts SpokenWord Tour as Co-creators and Performers with the production "Wade In The Water" a trilogy of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which debuted off Broadway at the National Black Theater in Harlem hosted by Danny Glover and First World Theater Ensembles' "From Ancient To Hip Hop" chronicling the ancestral tradition of the Master Griot through dance, song, spoken word martial arts, hip hop and its transformation from era to era. They volunteer with the House of Umoja Youth Summer Career Exploration Program/Young Playwrites Workshop and host performances and workshops on holistic healing through the arts.