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	==Personal life==		==Personal life==
	He lives in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn and works for ]. His stepbrother is Dee Jay Blaze.		He lives in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn and works for ]. His stepbrother is Dee Jay Blaze.

	==Audio Recordings==
	*"Legendary (The E-Mix)" (single, 2009)
	*"Legendary- The Spoken Word Poetry of Emanuel Xavier" (spoken word poetry/music album, 2009), '''''http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/EmanuelXavier2'''''
	*"Legendary (The RE-Mixes)" (remix EP, 2010, Hades Music)
	*"Sound X" (remix, 2011, Royal Advisor Records)
	*"Waiting For God" (spoken word poetry/music, 2011, Voices Against Police Brutality)

	==Television appearances==		==Television appearances==

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Emanuel Xavier
File:Emanuel Xavier by Bobby Miller 2- b&w- low res.jpgEmanuel Xavier (Photograph by Bobby Miller)
Born	1971 Brooklyn, New York
Website	http://www.emanuelxavier.com

Emanuel Xavier (born May 3, 1971), is an American poet, spoken word artist, author, editor, literary events curator and activist born and raised in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn. He was proclaimed an LGBT Icon by The Equality Forum in 2010. He transitioned himself from being a street hustler and a drug dealer to become one of the most significant, daring, and unlikely voices to emerge from the neo-Nuyorican spoken word movement using political, sexual and religious themes throughout his work. Regarding his seedy past, in an interview with CNN he once stated, "I became all those things society expected me to become. I thought that was the only thing I could be." Of Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian ancestry, he conducted spoken word poetry workshops and produced benefits and events for youth organizations throughout the country. His work has been translated from English into Spanish and the Serbian language.

Controversy

Despite all of his work as an activist and with youth organizations, in October 2005, Emanuel Xavier was brutally attacked by a group of about twenty young men in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn. Rumors swirled about the attack, some suggesting it was his affiliation to The Latin Kings (he granted them permission to publish one of his poems against police brutality, "Waiting For God", in their newsletter), while others suggested it was simply another gay bashing. Rather than join the hate crimes wagon, in an exclusive interview with fellow activist, Andrés Duque, for Gay City News, and later in an editorial for The New York Post, Emanuel called this crime out as a random act of violence and eventually captured his experience in the poem "Writer's Block".