Background
Desdamona, her Emcee name, comes from Desdemona, the wife of Othello in William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello. She was born and went to school in Iowa. She struggled at all subjects with the exceptions of math and art. A childhood inspiration for her music, she said, was her father who would dress up as Count Dracula and tell bedtime stories to her. In high school, Desdamona and her friends formed a band in which Desdamona was the rapper, inspired by the R&B group TLC. When she moved to Minneapolis, she found an audience for her work. She began to go to open mic nights to perform her poetry. In this way, she became known as a spoken word artist, which was not her original intention, but which, she says, "made me a better writer."
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