Photo:

Dwayne Morgan began his career as a spoken word artist in 1993. He is the founder of Up From The Roots entertainment, which was established in 1994 to promote the positive artistic contributions of African Canadian and urban influenced artists.

Dwayne’s hard work and persistence were recognized in 1998 when he received both the African Canadian Achievement Award for Youth Achievement, and the prestigious Harry Jerome Award for Excellence in the Arts. Since his first release in 1995 (Straight From The Roots), Dwayne has self published two chapbooks, and three full volumes of his work.

Dwayne’s live album, The Evolution, entered the world in late 2000. The Evolution received the 2001 Inaugural Canadian Urban Music Award for Best Spoken Word Recording. In 2003, Dwayne released his highly anticipated follow up album, Soul Searching, which took home the 2003 Canadian Urban Music Award for Best Spoken Word Recording. Morgan produced his ten year anniversary album, A Decade in the Making. Mother I Understand, one of the pieces from the double album received the 2005 Canadian Urban Music Award for Best Spoken Word Recording.

Dwayne has shared the stage with many of Canada’s top artists including Glenn Lewis, Maestro, Kardinal Offishal, Choclair, Jully Black, K-OS, Nelly Furtado, and Saukrates, while also opening for international artist Alicia Keys, Mutabaruka, Ursula Rucker, Saul Williams, Les Nubians, Christian McBride, and author Colin Channer.

Dwayne’s most recent book, The Making of A Man, hit store shelves in July of 2005, and is his fifth book released through Up From The Roots. The Making of A Man, follows on the heels of The Man Behind The Mic, Long Overdue, and chapbooks, The Revolution Starts Within, and Straight From The Roots.

Dwayne’s popularity has lead to mainstream recognition in the National Post, Word Magazine, and the Toronto Star. Dwayne has also been featured on the CBC's Evening News, TSN's Off The Record, Much Music's DaMix and Rap City. Dwayne’s work has also been used by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation’s ‘See People For Who They Really Are’, print and television ad campaign.

As a producer, Dwayne has now produced over 100 events, the largest of which are the annual spoken word concerts, When Brothers Speak, and When Sisters Speak, in addition to the Toronto International Poetry Slam.

Dwayne is a motivational speaker, who currently hosts Diasporic Music, a monthly spoken word show on CKLN 88.1 FM, while also serving as an advice columnist in the free daily paper, 24 Hours (Sun Media).

To further explore his creativity, Dwayne collaborated with Driftwood Studios to film, Three Knocks, a ten minute film based on his domestic violence poem of the same name, which was premiered in Toronto’s Reel World Film Festival .

Dwayne’s work ethic and emphasis on quality has driven his success, and has made him a well respected component of Toronto’s urban music community, as well as the North American, and Global, spoken word scene.

Dwayne Morgan has performed throughout Canada, the U.S., England, Germany, Scotland, Belgium, Barbados, France, Hungary, Jamaica, and Amsterdam.

Pour écouter un extrait vidéo, cliquez ici.
Pour en savoir plus sur ses prochaines performances, visitez sa page personnelle.