NATHAN CURTIS "N8TE"

Nathan D. L. Curtis “N8te” is a Bahamian man of many talents the most potent of his many talents is

writing. Curtis is a poet and lyricist with the mind of a thousand human beings as one reviewer put it after reviewing his debut international poetry collection “Songs of a Melancholy Heart” in 2012 that put Curtis on the map. Curtis ability to channel individuals and put their emotions into poetry and lyrics is simply amazing.

 

However modest and more of a recluse Curtis often says that he gets shy when someone notices him for his work done or askes when is his next publication coming out. He often says it isn’t and invasion of          privacy but he prefers to love the world inside his mind better than that outside his mind.

 

A native of Freeport, Bahamas Curtis never believed that he would make such impact on the world through writing but always dared to dream beyond what his eyes could see. “I have always looked at individuals like Nelson Mandela, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou and Mahatma Ghandi and always said that I can be as great as or greater than them; they pursued themselves and in the pursuit of themselves they understood the world and eventually impacted the world. The same I want to do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LIFE AND CAREER

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EARLY YEARS

 

Curtis was born on September 23, 1993 in Freeport, Bahamas; at The Rand Memorial Hospital. He is the fourth child of his parents Bishop Cyril Curtis and Kay Curtis.

 

Curtis from a irregular family he calls it with his dad being a Bishop holding an international chaplaincy position in The Church of God he has never been not watched so the sometimes con of people always looking at you because what you have done or what you say you stand for some in admiration and some as always with negative intentions is not foreign to him and has learnt to dealt with it from adolescence.

 

The most treasured memories he has is of participating in junkanoo in elementary school at Walter Parker Primary School. “The feeling of freedom, moving your waist line to the drums, cowbells, horns, and bands; not to mention lighting up the streets in beautiful costumes makes your soul come alive. A free pass to act the fool for one night as I would say.” Curtis said in a past interview, he says it was there on the streets he realized his mind had a beat, a different beat than those around him and he came over the years to listen to that sound and perfect it to what you have today. An international figure with five publications and counting.

 

CAREER BEGINNING

 

No one would think that writings so widely accepted today was widely rejected two years ago. Before Curtis’s first publication in 2012 he said he got one rejection after another on top of that he had just graduated high school, dealing with college, trying to find yourself and upon finding yourself you realize it is not accepted by society because of what your parents stand for so you can say he was in a rock and a hard place.

 

Through perseverance he published “Songs of a Melancholy Heart” and “The Male Maya Angelou” as one article stated was born, following closely was “Eclectic Oprision” in the same year and he left the literary world for a period of two years to re-join in 2014.

When asked about this time Curtis said he was young in love and got hurt by love, only writing about love at the time he said he had to find a deeper meaning because he did not want to love anyone or anything and felt into a period of depression. His company Luxeyillr Literary Agency closed down due to his inefficiency at the time brought on by depression.

 

As you would imagine Curtis found himself and that deeper meaning his writings being described by Richard Follet as a visit to the chiropractor, hurting at first but better for you in the end. He says Curits ability to strike the core of human emotion is incomprehensible and cannot be imitated.

 

 

 

 

 

GOLDEN YEAR

 

2014 was indeed the golden year and return of the talented Nathan Curtis “N8te” to the international literary world shocking everyone with not one but three publications. “Truth Be Told?”, “Nae The Sugar Glider Poet” a children’s poetry collection, and “Twenty Seven Reasons” to add to this he started Huhntlu.com a site devoted to that writer that wants to remain nameless but share his or her thoughts with the world. Additionally Curtis Research Group was birthed out of his love science and has already presented papers in The Natural Sciences, Public Health and Economics the group three areas of expertise. Curtis has also subsequently submitted his lyrics with his team for Broadway and to numerous international recording artist.

 

N8te said “I don’t look at what I have done in the past to decide what I will do to the future. I simply go back to my days participating in junkanoo, listening to the beat and the feeling after. I learnt to listen to the music within me, after all words play apart in music coming together. I have found my music so I move through life through my own tune.”

 

It is this tune that allows Curtis being only 21 of age once being the youngest individual from The Bahamas to publish internationally with “Songs of A Melancholy Heart” being published when he was just 18 and owning his first company at that age to be the force he is today. A one man army, alone but never alone he says for words keep him comfort; the conversations in his inner mind.  Curtis and activist through literature writing about gay equality, human trafficking and many other pressing issues says he have found his deeper meaning and its good when you have found your purpose in life, you know longer walk around aimlessly looking for it, but pursue it, which ultimately allows you to impact the world through the pursuit of one’s self.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YEARS AHEAD

 

Often asked about what’s next Curtis always replies like a scotch record. The joy of life is not knowing what the future holds so like poetry I will go off part emotion, part brain and part love to decide my next move.

 

One thing he is sure about like the 8 in his penname “N8te” It is an inverted infinity symbol to stipulate my love for poetry, wanting my writings to live forever even if I am gone. To always impact someone.

“A great human being not only wants for today, but for tomorrow as well, to dwell but not to physically dwell, to help even if not tangibly but emotionally”. He says.