Sultry, Sensual, Commanding, and Believable Female Voice Artist

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Kristyl Tift

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Description

My demo showcases my narration work in the following genres: radio promo, historical non-fiction, literary fiction (African American), and memoir.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM) North American (US South) US African American

Transcript

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Crystal Dawn Tift. Narrator The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted to preach deliverance to the captives, to set at liberty to them who are bruised to preach the Acceptable Year of the Lord. This verse, taken from the fourth chapter of Luke, serves as both the introduction to Fannie Lou Hamer is first recorded speech and as her personal conviction for joining the ranks of prophetic movement orators. Addressing an audience of Black Dalton's at a Freedom Vote rally in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the fall of 1963 Hammer testified to God's grace and challenged those in her community to interpret the signs of change that surrounded them. Like most Delta sharecroppers, Hammer's life was filled with suffering hard work. Hunger and racist oppression were mainstays of her existence. But all of them things was wrong, you see, she contended. Out of despair, Hammer admitted. I have asked God, I said in our Lord, and you have to say no, need a line, say that you ate, she admonished those who might outwardly scoff at her desperate plea said, Open a way for us, said Please make a way for us, Jesus, where I can stand up and speak for my race and speak for these hungry Children. And he opened away and all of them mostly backing out. The opened way was so plain for Hammer to see, he sent a man in Mississippi with the same name that Moses had to go to Egypt and tell him to go down in Mississippi until Governor Ross Barnett toe let my people go. Hey Mur interpreted the presence of snake leader Bob Moses, along with the scores of field workers and college students he enlisted as an answer to her prayers. Hammer told the audience of Black Dalton's that voter registration work was working for Christ and suggested that God had both provided for her and protected her since she began fighting for freedom. Drawing upon the biblical knowledge she shared with this audience, most of whom were reared in the black Baptist tradition, Hammer explained, It's kind of like in the 23rd of songs when he says, thou preparest a table for me in the presence of my enemies, thou anointed my head with oil and my cup runneth over hammers. Basic needs were met by movement organizations, and fighting for freedom was much more gratifying work than sharecropping. But she was never one to gloss over the dangerous aspects of voter registration advocacy when persuading others to join the cause. I have walked through the shadows of death, she informed them on the 10th of September 62 when they white supremacist night writers shot 16 times in a house. And it wasn't a foot over the bed where my head waas, but that night I wasn't there. Don't you see what God can do? Hammer did not interpret threats on her life as signs that she should abandon civil rights activism or as proof that God was not on her side even when she was beat in a jailhouse until she was hard As metal Hammer espoused Scripture to her assailants and remain convinced that God spared her life so she could share her experience, she boldly attested, I never know the day what is going to happen to me tonight, but I do know as I walk alone I walk with my hand in God's hand, white supremacist retaliation to Black attempts at civic engagement did not deter hammers activism. Instead, their resistance underscored the need to keep on fighting. You know the ballot is good, she reasoned. If it wasn't good, how come he trying to keep you from it and he still using it? The sheer number of whites outraged by increased black registration activity and the presence of guards and dogs Tobar blacks from participating in the democratic process only stress the significance of the vote. Now, if that's good enough of them, I want some of it to, Hammer insisted during the rally, blending the sacred and the secular. During this particular meeting in the snake headquartered town of Green Wood, Hammer helped convince droves of people to cast ballots in the Mississippi Freedom Vote election. This mock election, the joint creation of Moses and Allard Lowenstein, a well connected white Democratic Party liberal from New York who borrowed the idea from mock elections he observed in South Africa, was designed to dramatize the fact that disenfranchised Mississippi blacks would cast ballots if given the opportunity, and it worked