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Confessions of a Superwoman AbetSpeaks 452 views This is the recording of my piece, "Confessions of a Superwoman," which is also on my channel. Shouts to Alex Cruz of The Jungle, who recorded & mixed this piece. Also to R...
Wordless. AbetSpeaks 925 views A quick little piece I wanted to share with you all. (Lyrics below.) Sorry for taking so long to upload a new video! (and that the quality is so bad. Lol. I promise the ...
Abet Speaks: Collar Bone Kisses AbetSpeaks 2,210 views This was originally supposed to be posted on Valentine's Day, but I was too busy celebrating something MORE important.... MY MOM'S BIRTHDAY! Yay! Happy Birthday, Mama. I lo...
Take the Lead (Original) AbetSpeaks 1,247 views So I wrote this song about two days ago. It started off as a piece... and I turned it into a song. Haha. I haven't sung in a very long time, so please don't mind the mess-u...
Thoughts from a Cardboard Box - FACT '10 AbetSpeaks 890 views Over the weekend, I performed at an open mic at the Filipino Americans Coming Together (FACT) Conference at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Open mics will al...
Abet Speaks: "Letter to Ms. Lauryn" AbetSpeaks 2,137 views Outro Song Credit: Nujabes - Beyond Instrumental Credit: Lauryn Hill - Ex-factor My tribute to an artist who changed my life. I'm not mad at the things she never did...
Abet Speaks x Kinema Group: "Faceless" AbetSpeaks 2,115 views Hey, everyone! Sorry it took so long to put this up on my channel. This was a collabo vid with one of my good friends, Justin Capadocia, and his studio, Kinema Group. ...
The Bathala Project x Abet Speaks: I was good enough... AbetSpeaks 17,302 views What do you get when you mix a 1 and a half hour time-slot, Bathala Project, and Abet Speaks? Greatness... Lol but seriously. Big ups to my big bro, Kuya Cyph, for m...
Abet Speaks: Thoughts in a Cardboard Box AbetSpeaks 4,695 views Song Credit: Nujabes - Beyond (RIP) I was told, on several occasions, to rethink what I wanted to do with my life. "Pick a career choice that's stable. How are you go...
Abet Speaks: Lost Innocence AbetSpeaks 4,361 views Song Credit: Nujabes - Beyond R.I.P. Thank you to Love146 & Co-founder Rob Morris for shouting out my video on Twitter. The world appreciates your work, but more than ...

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Jan 26, 2012

Date Joined

Jun 3, 2009

About this user

"I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive."
- Gregory Orr

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I'm a writer who hails from the quaint Chicago suburb of Lombard, IL. I've been writing most of my life, and I've just graduated with a bachelor's degree in News-Editorial Journalism.

Among other things, I enjoy song writing and feature writing. I enjoyed my last stint as a writer for Buzz Magazine and the217.com

As an artist, I've performed at different universities in the Midwest: University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Loyola University. My last major spoken word performance was at Filipino-Americans Coming Together (FACT) Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

Check out the live performance here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T77xg076PdE

"What's with the 'spoken word' youtube channel? Why ain't you singing!?"

Well...

Don't get me wrong. I love singing, but I love writing even more. I draw inspiration from events in my life, and the lives of others close to me. I'm not trying to start a revolution, but it'd be nice if it'd happen anyway.

I do this because I have respect for my culture, for my family & friends, and for the complex world that is the English language, the knowledge of which I attribute to my News-Editing professor. Sorry for being late to class all the time. Ah well.

Anyway, subscribe to the channel and please come back for more. I'd appreciate it on a hundred, thousand trillion, quote Kanye.

Til then, live by your pen,

- Abet Lardizabal

Photography by Alex Roy
http://www.alexroyphotography.com

For booking inquiries, please contact
abetspeaks@gmail.com

Hometown

Chicago, IL

Country

United States

Interests

Writing. Eating my mom's home cooking. Spoken Word. Song Writing. Singing. Drawing. Playing zombie video games.

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