KANE SMEGO
Kane Smego is Next Level’s Associate Director, an international touring spoken word poet, emcee, educator, and National Poetry Slam finalist. He is an alumnus of Next Level Zimbabwe, and he has served as the site manager for NL programs in Thailand, Brazil, Morocco, Cambodia, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Mongolia, Peru, and Bolivia.
As a recording artist, Kane has released multiple projects featuring his music and poetry, including his most recent album, Collard Green Music, which was released in July 2020. Kane has also featured on Grammy Award-winner King Mez's debut album My Everlasting Zeal, and topped the Spotify Viral 50 billboard in May 2017 featuring on the song North Cack with G Yamazawa. The music video for the song appeared on BET Jams, and went on to win Best Music Video at the Hip Hop Film Festival in Harlem, NY.
Kane’s one-man show, Temples of Lung and Air, is a work of hip hop theater that premiered at Playmakers Repertory Company in 2018, was featured at the United Solo Theatre Festival in NYC and played at the Detroit Public Theater in Nov-Dec of 2019. A native of Durham, NC, Kane currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.
