Michael Franti

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Michael Franti (born April 21, 1967) is an American rapper, poet, scholar, documentarian, and singer-songwriter.

Michael Franti is known for his involvement in a number of musical projects (most of which have a social and cultural focus), such as Beatnigs and Hiphoprisy's Disposable Heroes.

Michael Franti & Spearhead, the producer and lead vocalist of his latest independent venture, a band that mixes hip hop with a variety of genres including funk, reggae, jazz, folk, and rock.

He is also a vocal supporter for a variety of peace and social justice issues, and he is especially an advocate for Middle Eastern peace.

Early life

Michael Franti was born in Oakland, California. Mary Lofy's mother, as well as his father, Thomas Hopkins, was of African-American and Native American descent. However, his mother arranged his adoption out of fear that her racial family would not understand him. He was adopted by Carole Wisti and Charles Franti, a Finnish American couple in Oakland, who at the time had three biological children and one adopted African American son. Charles Franti was a professor in the Department of epidemiology and preventive medicine of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and died in 2003. Rebecca, Sara, Dana, and Matthew are Michael's four adoptive siblings. Michael spent his grade 9 school year at Highland Junior High School in Edmonton, Alberta. He later attended Davis Senior High School and University of San Francisco on a full basketball scholarship.

During his time at school, he met a priest who taught him how to write a tale on paper and then wrote poetry. He purchased a bass at a pawn shop and began making music influenced by hip hop, punk, and reggae, which was being broadcast on the campus radio station, KUSF. Thea, Thomas, Charles, and Arthur Hopkins are all siblings of Franti.

Personal life

Franti has three children: Cappy, Ade, and Taj. Sara Agah, an emergency room nurse and jewelry designer, is married to emergency room nurse and jeweler Sara Agah. He was married to Tara Franti-Rye from 1998 to 2004; she is Ade's mother.

Franti became a vegan after being inspired by Ade.

Franti decided not to wear shoes in 2000, first for three days. Since then, he has gone barefoot, except for the occasional wearing flip-flops when boarding an airplane or being served in a restaurant. Franti prefers bare feet.

Ade, Michael Franti's second eldest, was diagnosed with Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a kidney disease. (FSGS). Ade has only 50% activity in their kidneys as a result of this disorder. "My son's being diagnosed was the worst news I've ever received in my entire life," Michael says as he approached him. We don't know if he'll graduate from high school or what kind of life he'd like. We have no idea what it will be next, but he inspires me every day.

Taj Franti, Michael Franti's son, was born in September 2018. Taj is Michael's third child, and it was his first with Sara Agah.

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Career

Franti began his music career in 1986 as a member of the industrial punk/spoken word group The Beatniks. While studying at the University of San Francisco and living above KUSF, he discovered a passion for music and decided to form a band. Rono Tse, a dancer and percussionist, was among the Beatnigs' recordings; the band also released a self-titled album and an EP Television on Alternative Tentacles. While the records received some critical acclaim, they received no attention outside of the San Francisco Bay area.

The Beatnigs were recorded at Dancin' Dog Studio in Emeryville and released by Alternative Tentacles. The band, in addition to Michael Franti and Ron Tse, featured Henry Flood on drums, Andre Flores on keyboards, and Kevin Carnes on vocals. All of the band members made numerous contributions, including industrial percussion.

View the main article: The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.

Franti's next project, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, found him in Tse, and working with jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter, as well as experimental musicians Mark Pistel and Jack Danger (Meat Beat Manifesto). The Disposable Heroes, a group of industrial musicians and hip hop, wrote politically charged songs condemning the world's injustices. Hypocrisy, the company's first album (on Island Records), has received accolades for its social commentary, and was selected by U2 to open for their Zoo TV Tour.

The album's lyrics explored a variety of topics, including the United States' participation in the Gulf war, the oil industry, homophobic violence, migrantism, Franti's own cultural history and adoption, and even personal politics. The single 'Television, The Drug of The Country,' (previously recorded by Franti's former project' The Beatnigs) received airplay on college and 'alternative' radio stations for its critique of mainstream television, which, as the title indicates, blames the media for a political numbing of ordinary people.

The Disposable Heroes also performed music accompanying novelist William Burroughs' readings for an album titled Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales.

Author Leslie Haywood and editor Jeniffer Drake's book The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy's research has been published in several academic journals, including author Leslie Haywood and editor Jeniffer Drake's book Third Wave Agenda, Being Feminist and Doing Feminism. The study explored the role of masculinity in the misogynist viewpoint that dominates popular music e.g. Rap music is a form of hiphop. Franti's words in treating women properly in marriages, according to the authors, are an exception.

Disposable Heroes of Hiphophopsy is a hip hop band that pushed beyond the black and white text, especially in the song 'Language of Violence,' one of the first raps to speak about homophobia, according to the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.

Franti cut The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy in 1994 and formed Spearhead, a British band led by Carl Young, one of the mainstays. Home, the Disposable Heroes' first release in September 1994, marked a departure from the Disposable Heroes' politically charged rap and drew more from funk and soul music. Franti and Joe Nicolo produced the album. The album "Positive" by the Red Hot Organization also appeared on the album Home, which is also from the album Home. Spearhead performed "I Got Plenty 'o Nuthin" with Ernest Ranglin in 1998 for the Red Hot Organization's compilation album Red Hot + Rhapsody.

Chocolate Supa Highway was released in March 1997, with several changes in band members between releases. This album featured a return to hip hop elements and a strong reggae influence, as well as guest appearances by Stephen Marley and Joan Osborne.

The band broke with Capitol Records after releasing the two albums (reportedly owing to the label's repeated invitations to collaborate with other artists such as Will Smith). Boo Boo Wax, the band's own record company, was rather able to create Boo Boo Wax. "Spearhead" was the trademarked word used by Capitol Records, and subsequent albums were all released as "Michael Franti & Spearhead."

His song "Sometimes" appeared on the soundtrack to the 1999 film Mystery Men, as well as the 2006 film Last Holiday, which was included on the soundtrack. They also have a cover version of The Police's 1979 No. 74 under the heading "Spearhead." On the soundtrack to the 1997 film Good Burger, starring Kenan Thompson & Kel Mitchell based on their characters from the Nickelodeon series All That's most popular 'Good Burger' sketch.

Stay Human, Michael Franti & Spearhead's new name Boo Boo Wax, in accordance with indie music company Six Degrees Records. The album's central theme was the unfairness of the death penalty, and other key topics included mass media monopolization, the criminal-industrial complex, and corporate globalization. Franti talked about the message of Stay Human: "Half the album is songs about what's happening in the world right now," he said, "and the other half is about how we cope with it as people who are worried about what's going on." "This specter of war and coercion, this nation vs. the world's rest of the world, wears us out." Half of the report is a healthy dose of venting outrage over it, and the other half is about how we keep our spirituality, our faith, and our human connection.

Franti appeared on Lamb's album What Sound in 2001, providing backing vocals on the track "I Cry." Michael Franti & Spearhead's "Oh My God," arguably one of Michael Franti & Spearhead's most precise resistance songs, was released in 2001. In Catherine Chaput's book Entertaining Fear: Rhetoric and the Political Economy of Social Control, it was analyzed. Chaput uses the lyrics of "Oh My God" to explain how understanding politics is counter-productive to grasping economics and culture in a non-specific way. The lyrics are able to link science, popular culture, and politics.

In 2003, Deserves Music was released. Franti produced several of the songs from his guitar, and he, along with fellow 21st-century cultural globalists Manu Chao and Ozomatli, continue to synthesize his eclectic influences. Franti's reinforcing lyrics are now set to soaring rock chords, dancehall, bossa nova, Afrobeat, and funk, which in a departure from the Beatniks and Disposable Heroes' industrial sounds and early Spearhead's minimalism, as well as early Spearhead's minimalism, are now set to flourishing rock chords, while keeping a world-wise groove nodding toward reggae, dancehall, bossa Anthems such as "Everyone Deserves Music," "Yes I Will" and "Bomb The World" are produced with a nod to the 1980s rock of The Clash and U2, as well as classic soul from Stax and Motown. In a "Magnificent Seven" style mash-up, the song "We Don't Stop" (featuring Gift of Gab from Blackalicious and Spearhead's rapper/beatbox technician Radioactive) bridges the two sounds. Franti's "Love Why Did You Go Away" and "What I Be" show an alluring, sensual singing voice. "Pray For Grace" and "Bomb The World (Armageddon Version) pair Franti with reggae/funk legends Sly and Robbie (Grace Jones, Rolling Stones, Black Uhuru, No Doubt)

Franti released Songs from the Front Porch, a rearranged collection of older songs from Chocolate Supa Highway, Stay Human, and Everyone Deserves Music, as well as a few new tracks, also in 2003.

Michael Franti & Spearhead's Yell Fire! was released on July 25, 2006, inspired by Franti's journey to Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Iraq. Franti produced a film called I Know I'm Not Alone in an attempt to document his travel experiences and investigate war's human cost of war, as well as discovering the human cost of war. As a soundtrack, it serves as a soundtrack.

"One Step Closer To You" from Yell Fire!

Pink leads the backing vocals. In his website, the complete album is available.

Franti and Spearhead have earned a worldwide audience thanks to their touring and appearances in alternative media such as Mother Jones magazine and Democracy Now! Franti is back, this year, in addition to presenting the annual Power to the Peaceful festival every year since 1998. The festival started as a way of honoring Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been found not guilty of murdering a policeman but who is also deemed a political prisoner by some on the Left. Michael Franti continues to gain clout in both popular music and social movements, mainly because of extensive touring and word of mouth fan support. Various lyrics from his song "Bomb the World" written in the aftermath of September 11, such as "You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace," have made their way onto protest signs and t-shirts around the world, from Los Angeles to Berlin, San Francisco to CNN.

Michael Franti & Spearhead's "Light Up Ya Lighter" was included on Body of War, an award-winning documentary about Tomas Young, a paraphrased Iraq war soldier.

The Edge of Never, a documentary about extreme skiers mentoring 15-year-old Kye Peterson, who killed his father, Trevor Peterson, nine years ago, is on the soundtrack to Yell Fire and All Rebel Rockers.

All Rebel Rockers was released on September 9, 2008, and was mainly recorded in Jamaica at the Anchor studio in St Andrew. Cherine Anderson, a multi-talented vocalist, appeared on the Billboard 200 pop chart in September at number 38, and the band spent time together with ubiquitous rhythm team Sly and Robbie, as well as multi-talented singer Cherine Anderson. Franti's first US Top 20 single 'Say Hey (I Love You)' debuted on the US Hot 100 at number 18 on the US Hot 100, bringing him his first US Top 20 single. On Aux.tv's show Volume, Michael Franti talked about US politics and his efforts to make the world a better place.

Franti attended three separate events to celebrate President Barack Obama's inauguration: The Green Ball, The Peace Ball, and the Rock the Vote Party were among the three groups to support him.

Franti revealed in November 2009 that he would be joined by singer John Mayer on the Battle Studies Tour in spring 2010.

Michael Franti and Spearhead also stopped using water bottles on national tours and operated their tour bus on biodiesel as part of the band's environmental commitments.

In July 2010, Franti announced the debut of The Sound of Sunshine on his official website. It features 12 songs, including two versions of the title track, the latest hit single, "Shake It," and "The Thing That Helps Me Get Through" and the anthemic arena-rock ballad "I'll Be Waiting." The album was supposed to be released on August 24, but it was postponed until September 21 to give it "more runway."

Michael Franti started recording The Sound of Sunshine in Jamaica but later went on to mix tracks and record in Bali before deciding to bring a portable studio on the road. He continued to record on the road and then put his ideas into practice to see if they liked it before returning to revisiting it and reimagining it the next day. Since being quoted as saying that 90 percent of the album was not on his computer, he has since been denied.

He served on the 11th annual Independent Music Awards jury to support independent musicians' careers in 2012.

All People is Franti's first album in 2013. "I'm Alive (Life Sounds Like)" the single from this album was released on July 30, 2013 and was featured on The Sims 4 and Rayman Legends game trailers.

In 2016, SoulRocker was released. All of the songs were recorded on the acoustic guitar.

Michael Franti released Stay Human, Vol. 2 in March 2018. II, which will be released in June 2018 and also stands as the soundtrack to his latest film. The album was postponed until Fall 2018 according to Michael Franti, who posted a message on Instagram in July. Vol. remained a human. "Just to Say I Love You" was released on January 25, 2019, and on October 12, the first single was released, "Just to Say I Love You."

Franti's album "Work Hard and Be Nice" was released in 2020.

"Good Day for a Good Day" by Franti's 2022 album "Follow Your Heart" was a top-ten AAA hit.

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