Bono (and Billy)’s DJ for hire

What do Billy Graham and Bono have in common, beyond status as global icons? They both hired DJ Kenny Mitchell for events in the same week last February. For Bono, it was the launch of his clothing company during Fashion Week in New York, and for Graham, it was the Square One breakfast in anticipation of the final crusade of his career. Why? He's good. Really good. For you emerging church types, he's also a church planter, and he considers his craft worship, whether done in a sanctuary or a night club. He blends seemingly random sounds to convey truth in any context. At the Graham event, for example, he sampled bootleg audio of Graham preaching, and overlayed them on moody instrumental tracks, including a Spike Lee "reality" vocal from a De La Soul album. (Did someone say, "Postmodern"?) Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger feature him in their new book, Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures.

At Xcel's 3-on-3 Hoops tournament in July At Xcel's carnival on Saturday The instruments of a postmodern worship leader From his bio at Survivor Records

Kenny and I compared financial notes on the ride to and from the Carnival this Saturday. We're both urban ministers living in the same Brooklyn neighborhood with young families while ministering in the same Manhattan neighborhood without budgets. Go figure! Hire him for your next outreach event or social gathering. Better yet, buy his CD and encourage a friend to do the same.

Contact Kenny here.