Kerveen Saint-Phard

Twitter | Soundcloud | YouTube | Facebook Introduction: Kerveen Saint-Phard, alternatively known by stage name Paranom, is a Haitian born rapper signed to record label Kingz Chamber, who is also a member of hip-hop group Hybrid Thoughts. Was introduced to anime through the show Ronin Warriors in 1994/1995, has since grown up with Sailor Moon, Yuu Yuu Hakusho and Dragon Ball. Biography: Kerveen Saint-Phard is the son of Haitian immigrants who moved to the United States to flee their country that was under the rule of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, in the 1980s. Settling in Lynn, Massachusetts, it is this place where Paranom has spent his childhood and part of his adolescence. Growing up in a single parent household, uprooting from Lynn to live in a small city in Alabama, to Mattapan back in Massachusetts two weeks after graduating high school, to the gritty city of Brockton for a handful of years, and now currently back in Lynn, it has solely been the world of Hip-Hop music and culture, and the rich history and revealed mysteries connected to it, as it relates to his own unique life experience as an original man from the inner city in today's society, that has been the solid constant force of inspiration in his life since a young age. Picking up a pen at the age of 8, initially inspired by the night time strolls on Union Street with a walkman that played the likes of DMX and Canibus, Paranom was greatly influenced over time by the surroundings of his various dwellings-- full of music and addiction and poverty, religion and crime and family trauma, which had all contributed to his unconventional and complex style of penmanship. Being one who absorbs the feel of his surroundings, it has always been his release to weave unique patterns of expression that is not only healing and poetic, but is also gritty and precise. Being ideologically inspired by the likes of Malcolm X, Khalid Muhammad, Bobby Hemmitt, Dr. Alim Bey, Clarence 13X, among other revolutionary and historical leaders, Paranom synthesizes the collective goal of what these ideas aim to manifest-- the freedom to be God, with his own continued vision of what that freedom actualized can entail, by the way he lives and creates along with the way it's expressed, reflective of the streets that he lives in. Smooth and raw. To date, he has dropped many albums, including his acclaimed works-- Five Seasons, Life Outside The Frame (his Tragic Allies debut entirely produced by Purpose), and 777 EP (entirely produced by al.divino). He has also toured Europe with his Tragic Allies in 2014 with Wu-Tang Clan affiliate Killah Priest, showcasing a high level of lyrical dexterity and swordsmanship with his fellow Allies. Also being a member of Wreck Shop Movement, a Lynn based grassroots "movement" that is an underground platform for artists of all kinds aiming to build positively within their community, Paranom continues to represent the jewel within the rough, and that truth is extended through every verse. (Source: Paranom's Official Facebook Page)