Mojo Mendiola

Who is Mojo Mendiola?

Mojo Mendiola Mendiola is a German writer, musicologist and Afro-American philologist, photographer and artist.

He grew up in Düsseldorf, Germany and studied German and English/American philology. In the 1970s he started out as a singer/songwriter in folk and blues music and spent considerable time in Amsterdam and London. In 1981 he went to New York City and in the same year was chosen as one of the winners of the New York Songwriters in Concert contest at Gerde's Folk City. Under the guidance of LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka he broadened his studies of Afro-American literature and history.

He retired from stage and – after settling in Hamburg, Germany – has been publishing in a variety of music magazines and newspapers and editing the intercultural music website global-mojo.com. The Center for Black Music Research at the Columbia College Chicago listed him in their Directory Of Scholars. He also published a children's book in German about multicultural urban life entitled "Palle Puzzlebüx und die Kinder der offenen Stadt" and the satirical "Helmut Lichtergang erklärt Deutschland". Since 1999 he has been active as an artist in digital painting.