About

Juwon Simmons is a Cameroonian-born music artist, writer and spoken-word poet based in Gothenburg, Sweden, where he moved to in late 2009. He was the 2014 Poetry slam Champion for Jönköping city, and proceeded to compete at the nationals with his team bringing home the bronze prize in 2014 and the silver prize in 2015. He has digitally released three EPs since 2011 on all digital music outlets, the last one being “The Ring of Blue Fire” released in 2014 which received great media reviews, and performed on many stages, both national and international, as headliner, supporting act and opener. With several musical influences picked up during his time growing up and time as traveling international student, his anecdotal /story-telling lyricism is influenced by the styles of the griots of West Africa, written in contemporary urban and sometimes classic Victorian fashion for effect and by the Hip-hop styles of the Chicago and the Midwestern scene, strung to roots of Neo-soul, jazz, blues and modern experimental sounds. His work focuses on philosophies of life, society and the human mind, Afrocentrism in relation to the world, affirmation of gender equality, power, political and social imbalances, and responsible freedom of action, expression and self-reformation.