Category: Live Music Blog: check out artist Mickey Avalon (http://www.myspace.com/mickeyavalon). This guy is one of the hottest up and comers in the hip-hop game with some really raw and unique music. He is on tour right now and he does a hell of a live performance.
Mickey (real name Yeshe Perl) is from Hollywood, California. His debut self-titled solo album was released Nov. 7, 2006 on Interscope/Shoot to Kill Records in association with MySpace Records. Avalon blends dark, lewd, and humorous lyrical hooks with hip-hop beats. Frequent topics of Mickey Avalon’s songs are his experiences with substance abuse and prostitution. His family upbringing was tumultuous and both he and his parents were involved with drugs. Mickey Avalon’s paternal grandparents are Holocaust survivors; both endured lasting injuries from their imprisonment at Auschwitz. Mickey Avalon is friends with actor and former MTV VJ Simon Rex, who encouraged Avalon to write lyrics and perform when Mickey was broke and living on Rex’s sofa. Avalon soon gained a following in the Los Angeles nightclub scene. He has since enjoyed a surge in popularity partly due to promotion of his music on the website.
Parental discretion advised. If you happen to be in Orlando Saturday he is performing at the BB King’s Blues Bar that night which is a cool live music venue.
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