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Screenshot from Levi's commercial that featured a song written and recorded by Silent Knight.

Excerpt from the Roots Music Exhibit Timeline:

"Then, breaking into a different side of the business, I finally landed my first commercial. I wrote…

Photograph of Silent Knight with other members of the News Beat team.Excerpt from the Roots Music Exhibit Timeline:"Delving further into community work, but also journalism, I became the first artist-in-residence for a new podcast called News Beat.…

Photograph of Silent Knight at the Innocence Project headquarters.

Excerpt from the Roots Music Exhibit Timeline:

"Through the News Beat podcast, one episode in particular, I became an ambassador with the Innocence Project. Again, a high…

Silent Knight working virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Excerpt from the Roots Music Exhibit Timeline:

"Just as things were building up with News Beat, the Innocence Project, and The Band Called FUSE, the pandemic hit. Things would never…

Still shot from ABC World News Now "Hip-Hop Polka".

Timeline excerpt:

"The news reached out. ABC's World News Now. The very first Hip-Hop rendition of the 30+ year running tradition known as the World News Polka was produced by an in-house…

Still shot from "Wu Tang: An American Saga."

Excerpt from the Roots Music Exhibit Timeline:

"Wu Tang struck again soon after. My music was featured in a show about (and produced by) his favorite group. Hulu's Wu Tang: An American Saga. Season…

Collage of digital photographs taken by and of Silent Knight in 2022.Excerpt from the Roots Music Exhibit Timeline: "After a couple of years of hardship, granted with some victories too, some sense of normalcy started to return. 2022 would see: the…

Selfie photograph of Silent Knight taken in 2022.

Excerpt from the Roots Music Exhibit Timeline:

"Which brings us to now. A residency booked for Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), planning of a world wide tour, and a possible major TV appearance…

Notebook cover from one of Silent Knight's early writing notebooks

Notebook cover from one of Silent Knight's early writing notebooks

A page from one of Silent Knight's early notebooks. This writing was later recorded as a song but not released.

A page from one of Silent Knight's early notebooks. Some of the words from this page were used in the song "Salute" on the album "Busy is My Best Friend".

Additional words that were added in the recording:

high command, rebel outlaw
but Cy is…

A page from one of Silent Knight's early notebooks, which became an excerpt from an unreleased and yet unrecorded track called "put down the linoleum".

Music video for "Pop Culture Shock".

Excerpt from the Roots Music Exhibit Timeline:

At the same time, I was again noticed by a familiar record label, LOUD Records, the very label that signed Wu-Tang Clan, Big Pun, Dead Prez, and other artists…

Busy Is My Best Friend music video.

Excerpt from the Roots Music Exhibit Timeline:

"The video would be released and pass 100,000 views, making it my biggest stand alone song thus far."