Minor Prophet Joél

Minor Prophet Joél is an Alternative R&B/Hip Hop/Soul music artist, songwriter, producer, composer, and performer from Cleveland, Ohio. He received classical training in voice with the famed Morehouse College Glee Club and Quartet. The artist sang background vocals for Beyoncé Knowles-Carter on The Fighting Temptations movie soundtrack. Currently, he is the Multi-media/Outreach Coordinator for Tri-C JazzFest/Performing Arts Cleveland. He is the curator of The Funk N Parables Show. This show features three musical acts and a spoken word artist/emcee.

Minor Prophet Joél is a member of the LGBTQ community who is in recovery from codependency. Therapy, the arts, and literature on codependency helped Minor Prophet Joél get on a road to recovery. Codependency is the excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, typically one who requires support on account of an illness or addiction. Melody Beattie's definition is a codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior. Codependency can be a strong gateway to depression and suicide, especially among queer youth.

Minor Prophet Joél wants to perform his show with a goal to address the challenges in the queer community of high rates of depression and suicide internationally. This show will ultimately help raise awareness of resources for LGBTQ youth. It will help address the challenge by using the universal language of music to bring awareness.