JOHN LACARBIERE III performs the song "AUGUST 29TH" for BalconyTV.
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John Lacarbiere III, born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, is a national spoken word artist, author, and publisher. John started writing at the age of 8 inspired by local and national hip-hop artist. It wasn't until after Katrina where he got involved professionally. In 2008 he released his first book "I Write To..."since then John has released 6 other titles and 4 spoken word albums. He also performs and has put together several events of his own, including a weekly every Thursday titled "Word Connections" John received the award for "Writer of the Year" at the 2012 Write NOLA Awards. In October of 2012, John started his own publishing company SWMN Publishing LLC. John has featured on stages all over the country including New York City, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Dallas, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Mobile, and Augusta to name a few. John also does a lot of community work feeding the homeless every Saturday with friends.
John was born on August 23, 1984. His parents are Charleyne and John Lacarbiere III. He's the oldest of three children, a sister Kendra Lacarbiere and a brother Jordan Lacarbiere. He attended Fisk-Howard Elementary school in Mid City New Orleans where he entered the Spanish Emersion program, which was a program that taught all sciences and math in Spanish. Fisk-Howard stopped at 5th grade. He attended A.D. Crossman for 6th grade. From there he went to Thurgood Marshall Middle Magnet School. He was in the advanced placement program there where he received high school credits. After graduating from middle school, John attended John McDonogh Sr. High School. He was in the honors program. John learned Japanese his first year at John Mac. John excelled academically throughout high school. It was in high school where he found his passion for poetry, One of his 11th grade teachers, Ms. Logan, introduced the class to several poets in the city. One being Peter Muhammad. After several workshops with Peter, John fell in love with poetry. Later on that year the class published their very own book of poetry titled "Young Minds." John graduated valedictorian from John Mac with a 4.14 GPA. He later attended Dillard University where he majored in Biology.
During his third year at Dillard, tragedy happened. The city of New Orleans was hit by a major storm known to the world as Hurricane Katrina. John evacuated with friends to Houston, leaving behind his father. His mother and siblings went evacuated to Alabama, later becoming Ohio. In Houston, John often hung out with friends and worked. He was working at Whole Foods Market before the storm hit, after the storm he maintained that same job in Houston. John communicated with his displaced family as often as he could. But his father was missing. It wasn't until later that year when John found out that his father drowned during the storm. Poetry was his only outlet to deal with the stress of losing his father.
A year after Katrina, John moved back to New Orleans, where he started sharing his poetry on the social media outlets. He gained a lot of popularity via Myspace and Facebook. Many people asked if performed on stage. At the time John had performed on stage before but never at an actual poetry club. He found out about an event at "Dreams" night club and started performing there regularly. John soon became a household name among the other poets in the community. John later got a second job at Borders Bookstore and started his own open mic there. Borders was also the first bookstore to carry the book "I Write To..." John was also enrolled in Delgado Community college, where he finished the EMT program.
Due to some personal issues, John took a step back from the stage and decided to write and record. In 2010 he started a popular story among his Facebook friends titled "Murder He Wrote," a Halloween series about a serial killer that possessed a magical pen. In 2011 he recorded and released his first spoken word CD "I Am Poetry." John also taught creative writing for a year at St. Mary's Academy aiding Elizabeth Fletcher. After roughly 2 yrs off the scene, John received a call from, Carl "Smut Da Poet" Smothers to perform at one of his shows. After that show a new fire was lit and John never looked back...
http://johnlacarbiere.com/
CREDITS / SPONSORS
Video - Travis Henry of Seidist
Audio - Brondae Branch of Metro Dog Media
Host - Mike Destructive of Destruct Co.
SPONSORS:
Seidist
Metro Dog Media
Mike Destructive's wardrobe is provided courtesy of Destruct Co.
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