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Michael Thompson is otherwise known as multi-faceted artist is a: singer, songwriter, author and primary love has always been....
Michael Freestylee Thompson ()
Activist and artist Michael Thompson, also known as Freestylee, Artist without borders, died at his home, August 15, of a heart attack, according to the coroners result.
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Born in Kingston, Jamaica lived for more than 25 years in the small city of Easton in Pennsylvania, United States.
Activist and artist Michael Thompson, also known as Freestylee, Artist without borders, died at his home, August 15, of a heart attack.
He studied graphic design in the early s, at the Jamaica School of Art, now called the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts. Of the many artists that influenced Freestylee during the formative years, few did more than the Rastafarian artist Ras Daniel Hartman.
Hartman’s prolific output of drawings in the s represented for Freestylee a rich source of Rastafari references and traditions that were growing deep influences on the Jamaican popular culture. Freestylee’s influences were not, however, exclusively Jamaican, or the Rastafari movement.
Like other young progressive artists in Jamaica at the time the anti-apartheid struggles and lib