Violet & Dubblex

About Violet & Dubblex

Violet and Dubblex have been performing as a team since 2009. Violet aka Joy is primarily a poet and writer. Dubblex is a poet and musician. For the past 5 years I’ve been performing “Bluetry.” I felt myself inspired to read with music. Bluetry fell into place in developmental stages, defining itself. First Demetrius Daniel, a trombonist, accompanied me at readings. Simultaneously, before I’d written my first Bluetry, DubbleX said he wanted to play melodica again like back in the day. Naturally I invited him to accompany me whenever I featured. DubbleX agreed and Bluetry was born

DubbleX is a poet, writer and musician spending his days being certifiably crazy. DubbleX writes & plays music to stay sane. Performing melodica began to take on a life of its own when I joined with Joy Leftow, AKA Violet to accompany her when she reads Bluetry. This led to learning garageband, recording beats for us to read our poetry to and enabled me to add backup melodica jams to the tracks I create for us. DubbleX’s poems have been published by Street Literature Review Magazine, The Cartier Street Review, the Nov. 3rd Club, Polarity, Mad Swirl, (expired link), wheelhouse magazine, and Omega 7.
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