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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
Lavard’s Legacy: Lavard ‘Manifest’ Parks. (Top to bottom) Livingston Parks, father; Lincoln Parks, brother and Chairman of the Board of Dunamus Soundz record label; Corridon Hanna, best friend and DSMG President; and Keith Rolle, new DSMG CEO.
Lavard’s Legacy: Family and Record Label Announce Plans and New CEO
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Nassau, The Bahamas - The legacy of Lavard ‘Manifest’ Parks is going to
continue thanks to the combined efforts of his family and Dunamus Soundz
Music Group team.
Although he was known internationally as an award
winning gospel hip hop artist, Manifest and his wife Radel were
installed as youth pastors at Bahamas Faith Ministries just last Easter.
The couple, who were expecting their second child and their five
year-old son Johanan were among those killed in a plane crash last
November along with world-renown televangelist Dr. Myles Munroe.
Led
by his father Livingston Parks, brother Lincoln Parks and best friend
Corridon Hanna, some of Manifest’s initiatives that are confirmed to
proceed include his personal projects such as the completion of his
music album and book he was working on. The group announced that they
will also continue events he founded such as the Bahamas Hip Hop Fest
and Dunamas Soundz Music Conference.
“Words really cannot state how
grateful we are so many people have stepped forward to pledge their
continued support to build on the foundation my brother built,” said
Lincoln Parks who now takes the helm as Chairman of the Board of
Directors for Dunamus Soundz Records. “It has been a rough transition
but everyone is helping each other through the healing process and
ensuring his work will not be in vain. Lavard and Radel were the essence
of the Dunamus Soundz Music Group and we’ve been in touch with the
artists and will be moving forward.”
He noted that the first
undertaking will be the DSMG Music Conference which will take place on
Thursday, April 2 at the Ministry of Youth Sports and Culture. He
confirmed that both he and his father will be speaking.
Corridon
Hanna, who served as Vice President on the label under Manifest revealed
that a new CEO has been named in the person of Keith L. Rolle, a radio
show host and fixture on Caribbean gospel music industry. Rolle formerly
served as manager to Manifest.
“We are excited to have Keith on
board,” said Hanna, who is now the Dunamus Soundz President. “The thing
is Manifest was such an astute businessman, he left us with a blueprint
to be able to fulfill the purpose of this label. We all had some sort of
email or correspondence from him, indicating our tasks, or following
through with our duties as executives or artists. We have no choice but
to continue and we thank everyone who has supported us.”
“I’m
blessed with the opportunity to be a part of a dynamic movement,” said
Rolle. “Manifest and I were discussing so many things and now I realize
that we have to rise together, we have to overcome together or what he
started would have no merit at all. I want to go on record to thank all
the artists, all the executive members and of course the family for
allowing us to honor him in continuing what he started.”
A relaunch
of the company website and Manifest track releases are scheduled to be
announced at the conference. For more information, visit the Manifest
and Dunamus Soundz Music Group social media pages. Online registration
for the DSMG Music Conference is at http://goo.gl/FELaaH
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