Souhimbou Kone

What of I was born to be the one ?! Souhimbou (Ebu) Doh Kone aka Ebuprophen Suaveli is an aspiring all round performer from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, West Africa. He has grown a passion for the arts during his younger years and following the footsteps of his father and brother whom are both artists as well. Now, he is a hip hop artist specialized in '' Renaissance Hip Hop'' which is all about bring a new Golden Age in Hip Hop. He is also an actor mostly known for his work in the Identity Project which he co-wrote and starred in both at Capital Repertory Theater and Albany High School as part of the annual Promising Playwrights Festival. On top of theREP! Summer Young Acting Company, Ebu was featured in an independently made short documentary film called Hip Hop Promo" a multimedia piece is an interactive documentary trying to address the question: how does the art form of hip hop rewrites contemporary culture; a collaboration of members of Team NLD Global Enterprise and Youth FX. The film upon success was screened at the Undergraduate Conference of the English Department at UAlbany. This film with funding may be turned into a full length documentary/movie and will air on a lot of media platform. Ebu has studied theatre and acting under the magnificent Ward Dales and Tim Deenihan at CapREP. In fact, Ebuprophen transferred from the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences from Doctorate in Pharmacy to UAlbany for Bachelor in Interdisciplinary Sciences with Concentration in Public Health and minoring in English with specialization in poetry and acting. He is also an extreme athlete involved in soccer, basketball, football, tennis, track and field, martial arts tricking, parkour/free running, gymnastics and SMA(Swavey Martial Arts). With an ease with languages such Bambara, French, English, Spanish, a bit of Sumerian and Arabic; Ebu is a very social as a person. He aspires to do great things and spark meaningful changes in this world