KEVIN "CHILL" HEARD

Kevin Heard is employed at the Call and Post Newspaper. He is editor of CP2: Call and Post Second Edition. As editor of the paper’s weekly arts and entertainment magazine, his efforts led to five national awards for best publication.

Kevin has recently appeared on news stations WKYC, WVIZ and WNPR to share his political and social viewpoint on local and national topics.

Kevin first gained fame as Cleveland's first national rap artist MC Chill. He became the only Non-New Yorker signed to the famed Bronx-based Fever Records. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has twice commissioned his paraphernalia for it’s archives. He was host of WZAK's nationally celebrated “Rapper's Delight” Show and is currently appears on Time Warner’s Urban Flix television show.

Kevin is a member of the Press Club of Cleveland, a board member of the Progressive Arts Alliance, associate board member of the United Black Fund, a founding member of the African American Film Critics Association and was the Assistant Editor for Kappa Alpha Psi’s international publication, Kappa Journal. Kevin was inducted into John F. Kennedy high school’s Hall of Fame and is a voting member for the NAACP’s Image Awards. He is a member of the Los Angeles-based Organization of Black Screenwriters and is currently involved in film projects as a screenwriter in Cleveland and Hollywood.