"The work traced gay icons in film and literature and art history. It was a groundbreaking show made up of collages and drawings that explored gay male sexuality – eight years before sex between men was decriminalised in NSW. Gray's first taste of McDiarmid's art came via his first exhibition, Secret Love, held at Hogarth Galleries in 1976. We were immersed in all the social and political changes that were happening then." "Very quickly, we were in each other's households, at each other's parties, and David and I developed a particular relationship which I would call a discussion relationship, a talking relationship. They were ex-lovers and very close friends and collaborators … We just looked at each other and went: 'Oh yes!' Gray recalls: "Peter had a stall selling his jewellery and what was then called 'tat' – stuff from op-shops – and David was there. He worked as a regional field organizer in 2018 on Stacey Abrams campaign for governor in Atlanta, an organizer for the Working Families Party in Colorado and most recently became a Co-Executive Director of The Kaleidoscope Project (TKP) alongside Denver artist and organizer, Kerrie Joy.Gray and her then-husband, Brian Sayer, met McDiarmid at Paddington Markets in Sydney in 1975, where he was sharing a stall with artist and jewellery designer Peter Tully. Tyler has also been involved in community and political organizing. For Tyler, this is how he curates his albums. First you present the problem, then the theme and then an assignment before coming to the conclusion of a message. In talking about the construction of his music, Tyler references his time studying at Morehouse College learning about the preaching style of American baptist preacher Rev. “I think it’s me graduating as an artist with a chip on my shoulder or wanting to prove things to people to making music that feels good, is on brand with who I want to be, what I want to represent and a history I want to keep alive,” Tyler said. It will be also be part of his upcoming album titled “Higher Altitude” which will be out later this year.įor this next project, Tyler says it’s going to be a rap heavy, boom bap album that reflects on his experiences in Denver.
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He wrote a song reflecting on the life of unhoused street preacher Marvin Booker that is part of a series of works submitted for poet laureate consideration. If chosen by Governor Jared Polis, Tyler would serve four years as Colorado’s Poet Laureate. Beaty/DenveriteĪnd earlier this year, Tyler was nominated by The Equity Project and The Kaleidoscope Project, a non-profit that Tyler helps run, to be considered as Colorado’s next poet laureate. Denver is where I started taking music seriously.”Īson Yugen plays AWOL: All Walks of Life, the multi-genre showcase, at The Cloud in Overland. gave me an opportunity to figure out who I want to be. “I just felt like there was something missing.
“I just always remember coming to Denver, visiting my dad, and feeling like I had space to think, being close to nature,” Tyler said. When Tyler’s parents split at a young age, his father moved to work at a church in Colorado. He had plans to pursue a masters in divinity and even served as the Connectional Young People’s and Children’s Division President of the Black Methodist church. Tyler graduated from Morehouse with a bachelor’s degree in religious studies. I feel like a lot of my childhood that I reflect on in my music gets tied to the religious background.”
“We were there for all the choir rehearsals and Bible studies. “I would go to church every day,” Tyler said. The 2019 sermon shows a young, passionate orator delivering a sermon with the rhythm and cadence of an experienced preacher. “God sees beyond the prejudice,” Tyler said in his closing statement of a sermon he delivered to a Missouri church. Louis and Denver for many years before eventually settling in the Mile High City at the beginning of 2020. Beaty/Denverite Tyler grew up a pastor’s kid, bouncing between St. Kaleidoscope Project Co-Executive Director Nelo Tyler on the last day of class at Empower Community High School in Aurora.
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