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Today’s Shuffler: Danny “Dandiggity” Le

Danny “Dandiggity” Le is a 26-year-old Vietnamese American poet hailing from San Jose, California. He has performed for crowds all over the nation at different colleges and venues for the last seven years. With his unique brand of storytelling and humor he hopes to build a bridge of words from California to Vietnam. A friend once told him he was “a jack of all trades” and he lives up to that title very well.

Dandiggity is an artist, designer, event promoter, community organizer, street culturalist, music reviewer for Onecypher.com, freestyle dancer, and lead singer in the Christian band Before Royalty. When he is not busy juggling a million projects Diggity enjoys hanging out with old friends and making new ones to share in his laughter. He is a Libra and knows life is always going to be beautiful.

If you peep his Myspace, he offers the following words of wisdom: “Envy and hate robs people of their ability to RISE.”

You can find him at www.myspace.com/dandiggity or www.onecypher.com.

Email him at dannythienle@gmail.com if you would like to book or collaborate with him on anything. Even going out for food.

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Guest blogger Dandiggity in New York City hosting a showcase at the
2007 APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit on 8.04.2007. Photo by An Xiao.

From the events that transpired last week all I have to say is, I’m glad to be back home in Bay Area weather! Nothing against you New York, it’s just I couldn’t stand sweating so much while doing so little, anymore. Okay, now that I got that out of the way, my thoughts about the Summit.Big ups to Hanalei (and her hustle) and the organizers for putting in two years worth of work in less than two months. Without your efforts fam, we would have no summit and I feel that would have caused us as a community to suffer. This summit is important; it is a “space” for us. “Us” meaning the poets, emcees, writers, activists who all have tried to find something different, a place that oozed of familiarity and love. That spoke to the inner core of our souls. That spoke to the creased corners of our eyes. That spoke to the yellow and brown on our surface. That spoke to the philosophies of our cultures. That spoke to “us.” This space is important and to have that taken away from us, we who are still trying to define our voice, would be leaving us without a home to go to. Read more

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