"Pain doesn't necessarily mean bad; it only means you are alive."
Mimi J Milson
Raised by her grand mother after her father passed at a tender age, and going through situations in life for which most people will just throw in the towel, Mimi J Milson has Embraced her hardest moments in life and transform them into Her expression of Poetry and with her godgiven voice and wit, she is evolving into a powerhouse and is one of the most exciting new spoken word/ Slam Artists of 2024. Musically she fuses a raw form of poetry with soul music and afro beat which would invock a name like Libianca for which milson was the only one to do a spoken word rendition of her hit song “People” which somehow blends and just sounds southing on the eardrums. Lyrically she ranges from socio-political issues to personal struggles and triumphs. Something many people don’t know is she triumphed over death after surviving a mugging and atempted Sexual assault which left her stabbed in the back and almost paralised, the knife luckily missing her spinal cord by just a few centimeters. These emotions, and pain can be felt very strongly in her art.
Self built and funded by a small group of friends, she is gradually building a very loyal fanbase, and have collaboratively written songs for artists like Young Holiday and a few more.
Milson currently works with WICUDA as a sports journalist, writing sports articles, some amateur photography and just created the WICUDA anthem worldwide. She also plays semi professional handball with a local handball team, a sport she fell in love with from her secondary school days. In the movie industry, Milson is also a screenplay writter, an actor and was recently part of a film crew as continuity.
Career Hylights
In 2023, she was winner of “SYSY House of Fame” poetry writing competition
one of the 50 selected winners for the “Camergreen Environmental Poetry”
Her writings have been featured on her platform, ‘Today’s tomorrow” now “WETI”, where she shares her views on entertainment and entertainers, both in Cameroon and globally.