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	Michael Franti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Franti (born April 21, 1966, in Oakland, California) is an African, Irish, and German American poet, musician, and composer.
		Franti is the creator and driving force behind Michael Franti and Spearhead, a band that blends hip hop with a variety of other styles including funk, reggae, folk, and rock.
		Franti feels there is a division in the world between the consumer nations who buy shoes and the nations where people make shoes but can't afford them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Franti (1349 words)

	Free-spirited rocker Michael Franti is fueled by politics - The Boston Globe
		San Francisco musician, activist, and free spirit Michael Franti, who plays the Bank of America Pavilion tonight in support of Gov't Mule, booked his spot in the pantheon of political pop early.
		But though Franti is vegan and doesn't wear shoes, there's no hippie complacency to his agenda.
		Michael Franti & Spearhead open for Gov’t Mule at the Bank of America Pavilion tomorrow at 7.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2006/06/01/free_spirited_rocker_michael_franti_is_fueled_by_politics (702 words)

	Michael Franti and Spearhead live at Universalbuzz.com!!!
		Franti's debut as Spearhead, Home, was released in 1994 shortly after the break-up of his former band.
		Another long recording hiatus, during which Franti released a spoken word album (Live At The Baobab) and concentrated on other projects, was broken in 2001 by the release of the excellent Stay Human, credited to Michael Franti And Spearhead.
		Franti employed a traditional hip-hop conceit, the between-song skit or segment, to voice the concerns of Stay Human Radio at the impending execution.
	www.universalbuzz.com /catalogresults.asp?ArtistNumber=333 (281 words)

	Spearhead's Michael Franti
		Franti and his band have created one of the most unique styles of the last decade.
		Franti’s concern for the well-being and happiness of all humanity knits together each of his concerns.
		Franti: Yes, but this is a movement that, at the end of the day, is really saying that the human and the natural and the spiritual interests of the world should not have to take a second seat to the corporate and the military and the materialistic interests of the world.
	www.realchangenews.org /pastissuesupgrade/2003_01_23/features/michael_franti.html (1957 words)

	Michael Franti & Spearhead: Everyone Deserves Music (2003): Reviews
		The fourth collaboration between Michael Franti and Spearhead mixes the politically-inclined raps of Franti with the disco/funk rhythms of a live band.
		Franti and Spearhead almost made a deliberate attempt to stray from the typical hip-hop beats and go for something a bit more organic and acoustic than their previous efforts -- and the experiments more than pay off.
		Michael Franti's latest gem is funky, powerful, profound, sensitive and full of love of life.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/frantimichaelandspearhead/everyonedeservesmusic (687 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Music: Live Review: Michael Franti in Edm. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Franti shows us stuff we seldom see on the nightly news and the ease with which he did so is surprising.
		The strength of Franti’s documentary is the degree of impartiality he, for the most part, manages to maintain.
		Franti manages to balance war’s dark horrors with the resiliency of the human spirit and together it makes you realize how horrible war really is. Seeing nice, innocent people caught in such desperate situations is depressing, sure, but hopefully it will strengthen our resolve to do something about it.
	www.jam.canoe.ca /Music/2006/03/30/1511741.html (791 words)

	Hour.ca - Music - Michael Franti
		Michael Franti and I are blabbing about dreadlocks when I mention that legendary Black Uhuru frontman Michael Rose has dreads that now measure over six feet long.
		It was a sublime and a humane experience to see Michael Franti's "I Know I'm Not Alone" documentary purveying the occupations in Iraq, Israel, and the Palestinian Territories, but as touching and affronting as his visual perspectives were, nothing had prepared me for the man himself.
		Franti emerged on stage barefeet which was reminiscent of the Barefoot Contessa, the legendary Cesaria Evora.
	www.hour.ca /music/music.aspx?iIDArticle=8625 (1010 words)

	Michael Franti draws 30,000 to concert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Michael Franti's 5th annual 911 Power To The Peaceful Festival drew a record 30,000 punters to the show on Saturday at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
		Franti, the show's organizer as well as headline performer, began the 911 event to raise awareness and give support to political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, but added 'The Power To The Peaceful' name in remembrance of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
		Franti was expecting 20,000 based on previous years attendance figures but this was a record for the event.
	www.undercover.com.au /news/2003/20030909_michaelfranti.html (309 words)

	The My Hero Project - Michael Franti
		Michael Franti thinks that "role model" is a funny word and he doesn't really look towards one person.
		Michael Franti is a musician and a political activist.
		Michael Franti also wants to see what is to come of the many painful years of healing of Iraq.
	myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=Franti_Taft_04 (1259 words)

	Six Degrees Records - Michael Franti & Spearhead
		Michael Franti's socially inspired lyrics and Spearhead's infectious mix of classic soul, funk and hip-hop combine forces to take on one of America's biggest issues on their highly anticipated new album Stay Human.
		An activist and poet, Franti started out as a bass player for the Beatnigs, who like Fishbone, Living Colour and Arrested Development, were all outspoken African-American artists in the late 80s.
		Franti subsequently gained increasing attention as founder of the Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy in the early 90s.
	www.sixdegreesrecords.com /artists.php?artist=Michael_Franti_[amp]_Spearhead (815 words)

	Michael Franti & Spearhead: Stay Human (2001): Reviews
		Such lightness of touch is missing from the between-song skits, which have Franti posing as a DJ on a community-radio show, conducting interviews and dispensing commentary on the death penalty.
		Michael Franti and his band blend hip-hop, trance and echos of rock greats like the Clash, Randy Newman, Pixies and Pink Floyd to create a masterpiece.
		Michael franti is one of the most fresh and genuine voices in the music industry.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/frantimichaelandspearhead/stayhuman (574 words)

	Michael Franti & Spearhead: Everyone Deserves Music - PopMatters Music Review
		Michael Franti and half a dozen other anti-war activists were recently featured in the Chicago Tribune Magazine's "Seven Who Dared".
		Franti's standing on a street corner, probably somewhere in the Bay area, a camouflage cap cocked just off-center, decorated with a "Free Leonard Peltier" pin, dreads spilling out on both sides.
		It would be a travesty in spite of the fact that Everyone Deserves Music, Franti's fourth studio LP under the Spearhead moniker, reflects relatively little of what has made the band stand out among the platoon of heady, "positive" hip-hop groups of the last decade.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/f/frantimichael-everyone.shtml (959 words)

	Greenbelt - Michael Franti & Spearhead
		Franti’s music faces the demons of racism, militarism and globalization head on, whilst a Spearhead gig offers “part booty-shaking funk jam session, part soul deliverance, part cosmic transformation, and part social activism assembly, all rolled into one sweaty, sexy, raucous good time”.
		Franti hit the big time with the hugely influential and fabulously-named Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy in the 90s, taking inspiration both musically and lyrically from Public Enemy with hard-hitting cuts like Socio-Genetic Experiment and Music and Politics.
		Michael Franti & Spearhead was last at the festival in 2006
	www.greenbelt.org.uk /?a=724&pr=77 (264 words)

	PopMatters Music Interview \| Playing ball: Spearhead frontman Michael Franti takes to the streets
		Michael Franti must be the one, the only, popular music performer on earth who joins in with a street kickabout, an hour or so before he's due on stage.
		At the same time, Franti eschews the cumbersome bravado of rap culture: while Snoop and Dre, Ice T and Ice Cube, spent years firing searing broadsides at the establishment, they, like Elvis Presley and James Brown, Jagger and Rotten before them, were eventually assimilated.
		But Franti can't be compartmentalised as a personification of the street wars, as a dangerous catalyst to inter-racial tensions.
	www.popmatters.com /music/interviews/franti-michael-020729.shtml (2341 words)

	Rockbeatstone \| Reviews \| Michael Franti & Spearhead - Stay Human (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Michael Franti is a pro-active peace campaigner and has spent time staying at a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and has spearheaded various peace and political rallies in the States.
		The album was released on Franti’s own label, which has allowed him the freedom to focus on the topics which he chooses, without excessive exterior pressures.
		This song could be viewed as a blueprint for Franti’s protest but ultimately it works well as a chill-out song which was all the rage in the early noughties.
	www.rockbeatstone.com /reviews/albums/michaelfranti.html (688 words)

	Michael Franti - Songs From The Front Porch : album review
		Michael Franti, while not being as celebrated a name as figures such as Chuck D and Dr Dre, has a well earned reputation as a giant of rap and hip-hop.
		Franti's lyrics are still as inspiring as ever, although he does have a tendency to slip into the hippy-dippy at times (Stay Human being a prime example - "every flower got a right to be bloomin'").
		Franti's voice is deep and rich - those who have followed his career won't be surprised by his singing, but those who only know Franti from his rap days may be startled by just how good he is.
	www.musicomh.com /albums2/michael-franti.htm (655 words)

	Michael Franti News
		Michael Franti is a regular and much welcomed visitor to Australasia and its greater community.
		Michael Franti's Middle East Trip Inspires Music, Movie And A Book Tuesday February 21, 2006 @ 06:00 PM By: ChartAttack.com Staff Michael Franti Singer/songwriter and Spearhead frontman Michael Franti plans to...
		NEW YORK - Two of the most pivotal and event-filled years in the life of lauded singer/songwriter Michael Franti will culminate in June with the simultaneous release of a new studio disc with Spearhead and a...
	www.topix.net /who/michael-franti (657 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Michael Franti
		Michael Franti, who leads the band Spearhead, has inhaled tear gas on the front lines of anti-WTO rallies and lent his time and talent to support anti-death penalty legislation, marijuana decriminalization, conscientious-objector groups and pro-peace units Not in Our Name and his own Stay Human and Power to the Peaceful organizations.
		Franti says the stares he gets on the streets of San Francisco as a fl man with dreads are totally different from what he received in Baghdad and Gaza City.
		Franti's interest in Maori body modification is permanently etched across his body and on his forearms.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/02.15.06/franti-0607.html (3332 words)

	Michael Franti And Spearhead, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		Since his days as a member of the Beatnigs while in his early twenties, Franti has grown from angry young hip-hopper with a political, socially conscious bent (the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Spearhead), to a man who has channeled his seriousness, his social unease, and his desire for change and merged them with his...
		Franti was adopted at birth by white parents in the predominently fl community of Oakland, CA.
		Again billed only to Franti, it was a collection of Spearhead tracks that didn't quite fit in to the albums they were originally recorded for (as well as a couple different mixes from the Stay Human album).
	www.emusic.com /artist/11486/11486335.html (524 words)

	Michael Franti's musical evolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Although Franti may not be well known to MTV viewers or Clear Channel listeners, he has certainly emerged as one of the most politically active artists of the hip-hop generation.
		For years, Franti was a favorite among music critics, and always seemed to be on the verge of a major commercial breakthrough.
		Franti was born in Oakland and raised a few hours northeast in the predominantly white suburb of Davis.
	www.cannabisculture.com /articles/3433.html (3334 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Michael Franti
		Frantic Situation: Michael Franti speaks from the heart, which is the most gangsta thing to do in these times.
		IN 1992, Michael Franti and his band, the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, threw down a boom shot against the Gulf War.
		Franti and Spearhead will rock the party and the minds, as they always have, as they always will.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/01.30.03/franti-0305.html (642 words)

	ASCAP Audio Portrait: Michael Franti of Spearhead
		Michael Franti and Spearhead's Stay Human is a striking album that looks at some of today's biggest issues and offers encouraging songs for personal growth and social progress.
		Led by Franti, the CD features wonderfully warm and insightful songs interrupted by pirate radio broadcasts covering the execution of a beloved community activist.
		Death Penalty - Franti says his portrayal of the death penalty is a both a statement about that practice and a metaphor for how people lead their lives.
	www.ascap.com /audioportraits/michaelfranti.html (176 words)

	People: Michael Franti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Musician, poet and outspoken activist Michael Franti has rocked the nation with his politically charged lyrics for nearly two decades.
		The intention of the trip was to see first-hand the effects of the war on those involved—from Iraqi civilians to the men and women in uniform.
		Franti: I was raised in a family that I didn't "fit in" to really.
	www.collagefoundation.org /people/people-mfranti.html (1532 words)

	Michael Franti : Yell Fire! - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Franti recorded the album, his most heartfelt plea for peace and coexistence yet, after returning from a trip to the Middle East.
		Like Franti's music, the film is at once angry and hopeful, offering a reassuring faith in people's inherent goodness, even though it offers no real answers to the political and religious conflicts that tear their communities apart.
		What Franti and Spearhead do best is the same thing that Matisyahu almost managed to take to the mainstream earlier this year: a party-friendly mix of pop, hip-hop and reggae, spiced up with a few rock guitar hooks and politically and/or spiritually challenging lyrics.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,3657046,00.html (368 words)

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