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JazzduMétro is a media project and streetwear brand founded by Marvin Parks. "Métro Equals People"
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The JazzduMétro™ Story
JazzduMétro™ is the personal brand of Paris-based American jazz singer and comedian Marvin Parks created in 2017. The brand was inspired by his engagement with commuters as a participant of the RATP Musiciens du Métro program. Métro=People.
JazzduMétro™ is not an actual organization or group and is not RATP Musiciens du Métro nor is it an agency of or in direct affiliation of RATP. RATP Musiciens du Métro was founded in 1997 as a collaboration between Métro Espace Accords and RATP and is currently made up of 300+ amateur and professional musicians who participate on an audition basis. JazzduMétro™ was created by Marvin Parks as a means to promote his artistic interests, which include Jazz music, comedy, media and design. Marvin Parks, himself, has been a participant in RATP Musiciens du Métro since October, 2016.
The JazzduMétro™ logo was designed by Marvin Parks and references specific points of jazz history. "Jazz" was created by black American musicians and introduced to Europe in 1918. "duMétro"(which is obviously French) speaks to Parks' personal story of being a jazz musician in the Paris subway. It is always spelled >>JazzduMétro
It is mistakenly believed often that he "started out" or had been "discovered" singing in the métro parisien. However, Parks' beginnings as a jazz performer began in 1992 in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland after winning a Gold Medal in NAACP ACT-SO Competition with his performance of the Nat 'King' Cole classic "Nature Boy", and notably as well, becoming the only male singer to be named a finalist three times in Baltimore's Billie Holiday Vocal Competition[2001*2nd place; 2002; 2006*3rd place]. He has also performed with The Morgan State University Choir and is an alum of Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead Residency Program at Washington DC’s The Kennedy Center[2002]. Parks was using his presence in the Paris métro as means to engage with the métro’s daily commuters as way to build an audience for his recurring show “Marvin Parks: American Jazz Singer”. The show ran from 2015 to 2017 at Cave du 38 Riv. When Parks saw people from the métro in his audiences, he decided to create a brand that would represent a similar engagement between the jazz and comedy scenes and the public and that would lead them to attend jazz and comedy performances in the city of Paris. The idea is to brand himself was also inspired by New York City's iconic street performer, The Naked Cowboy.
