Flaco navaja biography of michael

          Biography..

          A life in song

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          Flaco Navaja’s Evolution of a Sonero lights up the UrbanTheater Company stage.

          Flaco Navaja is a singer, poet, actor, who is born and raised in the Bronx.

        1. Flaco Navaja is a singer, poet, actor, who is born and raised in the Bronx.
        2. Flaco Navaja is a singer, poet, actor, who is born and raised in the Bronx.
        3. Biography.
        4. Flaco's performances are infused with soulful melodies and poignant lyrics, reflecting his deep connection to culture and community.
        5. He is an artist and singer whose vibrant energy and passion for life are simply contagious!

          6. The UrbanTheater Company’s performing space on Division Street is not small—I have seen them stage plays there just packed with actors—but it is really not large enough to contain all that Flaco Navaja brings to it in this tight little solo show.

          For 80 minutes, the New York-based chameleon poet, actor, and singer fills the space with characters and scenes, friends, family, and total strangers (an intense mother, a hapless school friend, a wise but emotionally wounded Vietnam vet uncle, an ex-wife giving birth in an Uber).

          Lecturing, shouting, dancing, singing, crying out in pain, he recounts key moments from his life growing up in the Bronx (where he was born and raised) and other boroughs of New York City. Navaja was for a while the host of the open-mike showcase, “All That!

          Hip Hop Poetry & Jazz,” at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in Manhatt