Frank Manner
Frank Manner was born on a hot summer night in Jersey City, son of a divorced mother and a married man. He began writing short stories in junior high. In high school he wrote lyrics for an opera about the Watts riots at the same time he acted in school plays. Theatre was a gift that was second nature to him however that lust for theatre was soon replaced with a lust for hip hop. With the desire to be heard and powerful writing skills he penned his first songs. He moved from Jersey to Virginia then in time he moved to Denver Colorado. In 2003 Frank Manner made the Free Baikara Amini Mixtape which sold five thousand copies on the Denver streets that summer and began working on Frank Manner’s first album entitled Underground Railroad. When the album dropped in 2005 it was hailed on the Denver streets as the most creative LP to ever hit the city. The album best showed Manner’s versatility. Manner came back with a mixtape called The People VS Frank Manner a brilliant, lyrical adventure without one guest rap appearance. Manner has finished the new album entitled Gentleman and Scholar in which he takes you on a hero’s journey. When asked about his new project Manner states, “The Underground Railroad is the uncut, raw version of Frank Manner while Gentleman and Scholar is the clean, polished and upscale version. The album is more personal and mature and in my opinion levels above Underground Railroad because I wasn’t trying to please anyone except myself.” Gentleman and Scholar will be in stores in spring 2009. Manner has also just completed his first novel The Mile Highness. The hip hop novel is about Scott Free, an aspiring Denver emcee chasing stardom by creating an album for a hip hop competition called the Mile Highness. Manner is currently working on the soundtrack album to the novel.
