Jabulani Leffall
Portland
For purposes of this soundcloud profile, GriotJabu is the old soul and the child inside of Jabulani Leffall. Jabulani the artist is the co-creator. Bio means biology as well as biography. My life is not my story, my story is not my life.
Writer, visual artist, singer-songwriter, beat poet and former journalist and broadcaster, Jabulani Leffall, in 2013 released his debut digital album and media convergence project tilted "Respect the Beard: Spoken Soul."
Jabulani is also a founding member, lyricist and lead vocalist of Free! Mason Jar, a Portland-based music and multimedia collective founded by Benjamin Evans (Composing, Arranging, Instrumentation, Production) and Jabulani Leffall (Vocals, Lyrics, Instrumentation, Production).
Elsewhere in his career, Jabulani is also an award-winning journalist and writer who attended Journalism School at the University of Missouri. His work has appeared in the Financial Times of London, Dow Jones Marketwatch, The Baltimore Sun, Investor's Business Daily, Variety, CFO Magazine, Compliance Week, Redmond Magazine, Black Enterprise, Black Web 2.0, the Los Angeles Business Journal and the Los Angeles Daily News among other publications.
He was a George Washington Williams Fellow for the Independent Press Association where from 2002 to 2004 he studied the effects of sub-prime lending on poor communities. After what happened in 2007 and 2008, he feels vindicated as a journalist for having called what was going to happen but saddened as an investor for not capitalizing off the calamities of others.
What else? Oh yeah, he also contributed vital research to the 1998 book University of Missouri History Professor Robert E. Weems, which is titled "Desegregating the Dollar."
Additionally, he has appeared numerous times on ABC World News and CNN as a commentator of business and world affairs, again pretending to know what the heck he is talking about. Mr. Leffall is was Associate Editor, then Assistant Managing Editor of FactSet Research Systems' News and Media group where he was in charge of collaborating with other financial journalists who make ambiguous forecasts as they try to make sense of this crazy world.
He has at times striven to get his Google link count game up, writing for coffee and appetizer money by contributing articles periodically to numerous publications and media companies. Some are those mentioned above, while the guerrilla and gorilla stuff can be found at TheSimon.com and of course, right here at Wisebread.com
Leffall was most recently the host of Central Standard, a general interest radio talk show he co-created on KCUR 89.3 FM, a National Public Radio member station based in Kansas City.
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