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Mike McGee
12+ albums
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“Mighty” Mike (Michael Matthew) McGee (born January 12, 1976 in Fort Campbell, KY) is an American slam poet and self-described “stand up poet.” McGee has spent most of his life in and around San Jose, California where he started his career in spoken word, poetry slam and performance poetry in 1998. McGee's extensive touring has brought his stand up comedy infused poetry to most of the known spoken word and poetry slam venues throughout the U.S., Canadian territories and provinces. He is one of the first American poets to perform at the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in France. He performed a revised version of his popular poem Like on a fifth season episode of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry on HBO. He is a contemporary of Anis Mojgani, Derrick C. Brown, Jack McCarthy, Andrea Gibson, Buddy Wakefield, RC Weslowski, Geoff Trenchard of the Suicide Kings and Marc Bamuthi Joseph. McGee was born with the neural tube defect Spina Bifida and was never expected to walk or talk as an infant. In 2003, McGee co-founded the Vancouver, B.C.-based "talk-rock" trio, Tons of Fun University with Shane Koyczan and C. R. Avery. Their debut was before a crowd of 15,000 at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, July 2004. The trio has since toured extensively throughout Canada, performing primarily in music festivals. In 1999, McGee helped form Bleeding Edge Spoken Word, under the directorship of then friend and roommate, Aahz. In two and a half years, the two released 33 compilations of contem