via: New York Daily News
Until recently, self-expression was never Miguel (Miky) Solano’s strong point.
In fact, for much of his two decades, the only thing the Brooklyn native (who bears a striking resemblance to the rapper Big Pun) was good at was getting in trouble.
To be fair, growing up in a hard-scrabble part of Gowanus, trouble was easy to find.
Then Solano grabbed a microphone in an Art Start recording studio and suddenly he was Miky, a master freestyle artist who could put into verse the day-to-day challenges of a young man struggling to rise from the streets of Brooklyn.
Read the rest: Art Start program helped Miky Solano leave behind life of crime, find voice via music and rapping
Bonus Your Face Off
Miky Solano shows us his skills
