and now [about] Miguel

I’m so glad you're here. Thank you.

Much of my work starts with ordinary moments: neighborhood drives, looping phrases, and writing between the margins of daily responsibilities. I approach music and writing as practices—modes of observation and experimentation, where rhythm, language, and meaning emerge gradually.

I like placing things along side each and allow meaning to emerge from context.

My lineage is Hip-Hop, particularly artists who treat the form as narrative craft as much as musical expression: Nas, People Under The Stares, MF DOOM, A Tribe Called Quest (Q-Tip), Dilla and Madlib. Their work sharpened my sense of structure, voice, rhythm, and how to shape/move through sound. Alongside this musical inheritance, I draw from writers working with memory, and collective experience—Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Yaa Gyasi, Edwidge Danticat, Laila Lalami, Junot Díaz, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Across music and literature, I’m interested in how narrative holds complexity, distorts time, and carries lived experience beyond the individual. Literature and scholarship grounds my writing with the depth of history and politics.

I am mostly drawn to the interior life type writings with the grit of the city pavement.

Thematically, my work explores desire, and identity, alongside the long afterlives of history—especially the legacies of African, Black, and indigenous forced labour and displacement; how these histories remain embedded in bodies, relationships, and imagination. I aim to open personal reflection into collective awareness, allowing the work to dwell in complexity without rushing toward resolution.

This work is for those who listen closely, reflect deeply, and support independent practice.

With gratitude and deep bow,

and now Miguel