Toki Wright Joins KCMP (The Current)/Minneapolis

Toki Wright

MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC RADIO Triple A KCMP (THE CURRENT)/MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL has announced TOKI WRIGHT will join the station as its newest on-air host. WRIGHT, a hip-hop artist, educator and producer, will join THE CURRENT in late NOVEMBER to develop and host a new hip-hop show for the station that will begin airing in early 2018.  

WRIGHT has been a successful music artist working with a variety of musicians and has toured the world.  He is also a two-time EMMY AWARD-winning MC and a two-time CLIO Award-winning producer.

As an educator and community organizer, his efforts have spanned the globe by leading the nationally recognized youth organization YO! THE MOVEMENT, coordinating seven Twin Cities Celebration of Hip-Hop Festivals, and teaching hip-hop history and performance to former child soldiers in GULU, NORTHERN UGANDA with the organization H.E.A.L.S.

WRIGHT also serves as the department head of the nation's first fully accredited hip-hop studies program by the National Association of Schools of Music at MCNALLY SMITH COLLEGE.

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