D Blair

D. Blair is an award-winning urban-folk, Afro-punk poet, singer, and songwriter from Detroit, who has just been signed to the new start-up label, Repeatable Silence Records. Blair is a National Poetry Slam Champion. He's been nominated for seven Detroit Music Awards, including a 2007 nod for Outstanding Acoustic Artist. He's been named Real Detroit Weekly Readers Poll's Best Solo Artist and The Metro Times Best Urban Folk Poet. In 2007 he won Seattle-based BENT Writing Institute Mentor Award. D...See more

D. Blair is an award-winning urban-folk, Afro-punk poet, singer, and songwriter from Detroit, who has just been signed to the new start-up label, Repeatable Silence Records. Blair is a National Poetry Slam Champion. He's been nominated for seven Detroit Music Awards, including a 2007 nod for Outstanding Acoustic Artist. He's been named Real Detroit Weekly Readers Poll's Best Solo Artist and The Metro Times Best Urban Folk Poet. In 2007 he won Seattle-based BENT Writing Institute Mentor Award. D. Blair has toured the United States and Europe extensively and performed in South Africa both solo and as part of Walk & Squawk's The Walking Project, of which he is a co-writer and cast member. He's performed at New York's historic CBGBs and The Knitting Factory, The San Francisco Public Library, at Miyagi's on L.A.s famed Sunset Strip, Detroit's Hart Plaza, and Magic Stick and with a string section at the home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. MOONWALKING is his first book of poems with Penmanship Books. See less