Queen Sheba

*23 Years of stage experience from cafe to coliseum
*Shows up 30-90 minutes before call time
*Diverse background
*Relatable pieces for any audience from teenagers to adults
* Management Team
*Social Media Team
*Real-life fans that show up and purchase tickets (with proper promotions)
*High fashion and a mean shoe game
*Positive Personality and grateful for each experience
*A long reach to other artists to help fill your showcase

Quotes:
"Anyone who complains that spoken-word poetry is boring and predictable hasn't heard Queen Sheba's Domino Affect …" –Creative Loafing Magazine

“Bethsheba A. Rem’s life is a wonderful example of how extreme adversity can create compelling art. Her story reads like a gripping novel, complete with abandonment, betrayal and ultimately, triumph.” - Rolling Out Magazine

"Sheba's stories are honest, funny, poignant and necessary. Her poetic memoir is a celebration of survival, and demonstrates the power and capacity of a young woman's heart. Poems save lives, and I am thankful this particular writer is full of life, and sharing her world with the rest of us." -jessica Care moore Publisher, Author Moore Black Press

"Queen Sheba is a dynamic performer…."- Nikki Giovanni

I've known Bethsheba Rem over a decade; her drive to share a gift was both evident and clear on day one. When a writer has the moxy and chops to bathe in what most consider the ether of discomfort; that which is yet, for a few of us, you know those of us who bask in exposing our innards for the greater good: Ms. Rem has long written well enough to simultaneously move souls and help minds wax toward true light.
-Taalam Acey MBA Rutgers University Internationally Acclaimed Poet & Political Activist

"In Long Story Short From Foster Care to Fame," Bethsheba A. Rem is so unapologetically herself. She offers no buffers. No filters. No edits. She graces the page with her most raw, authentic, and uninhibited honesties, stories, and realities. She embraces a style of ancient epic poetry: extended in its storytelling - full, expansive, and vast. No moments are left unnoticed. No details are left untouched. Bethsheba has used her pen, her voice, and her words to usher us toward a glimpse of her soul. What a triumph - no morsel of her body silenced in her telling of her journey. If only we could all be so brave - no matter what our own truths."
- Caroline Rothstein M.S. Graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

"A wryly witty and complex portrait of a post-black, hip-hop, pro-fem champion of off-beat outcaste everywhere; Her work is a hybrid: part-narrative, part spoken word on page. Bethsheba vacillates between glee and pain--love and anger--her contradiction is her strength. Her poems are bullets that pierce vessels. We are forever disarmed"
-Khalilah Ali Ph.D author "The Dao of Womanist Hip-Hop"

“You are one of the most talented writers in our entire genre.”
-Michael Harriot, 2x New York Times Best-Selling Author of Black AF History:
The Un-whitewashed Story of America

Queen Sheba is a 2026 and 3x GRAMMY®-nominated live music artist.
2026, 2025, and 2024 — Her 11th album, A HURRICANE IN HEELS: healed people don’t act like that, earned her 2026 GRAMMY® recognition for Album of the Year in the Spoken Word-Poetry category.

In the first quarter of 2026, Sheba starred in the Recording Academy’s “Road to the Grammys” documentary. Shortly after, Angelina Jolie personally requested a private greenroom conversation with Queen Sheba to discuss poetry, writing, adoption, and Sheba’s body of work — which Jolie shared she would be studying. The exchange became one of those rare career moments that felt both intimate and cinematic, with the possibility of a future creative connection still unfolding. One week later, Sheba received a standing ovation after performing for Ms. Tina Knowles’ Matriarch book tour, in Raleigh, NC powered by RadioOne.

In April, Queen Sheba co-headlined her third annual National Poetry Month tour, this year alongside GRAMMY®-nominated poet and 8-time GRAMMY® Award-winning artist Malik Yusef.

As if that were not enough to keep the Queen busy, she has also been chosen by an A-list producer to pair with an A-list singer for a top-secret project that cannot be publicly announced yet.

The Queen’s 10th album, CIVIL WRITES: The South Got Something to Say, became her second GRAMMY®-nominated album in the Spoken Word-Poetry category, making Sheba the first woman nominated back-to-back-to-back in the category and the only poet from Atlanta awarded such an honor.
CIVIL WRITES includes the single connected to the viral video “Killer MIC,” which speaks to her journey south while ‘A HURRICANE IN HEELS’ infectious music video ‘So What’ produced by Obi-J a Nigerian videographer from Atlanta, starring famed bassist Divinity Roxx; Best known for her role as lead bassist & MD for Beyonce’s all-girl band - on lead bass, vocals and Hip-Hop vocals on So What?!

Feb 2025, during the 67th GRAMMY® Awards, Queen Sheba was not only nominated for Best Poetry Album of the Year, she was also selected to present at the 2025 Grammys during the Premier Ceremony!

At Georgia College & State University, Queen Sheba delivered her first TEDx talk, “Who Do YOU Think ‘THEY’ Are?!”—a standing-ovation address redefining ownership, genius, and personal power.

LEXUS DOCUMENTARY - HALF A MILLION VIEWS & COUNTING - Sheba is the star of a Black History Month documentary produced by Lexus USA, ALL DEF DIGITAL, and DPL / Da Poetry Lounge Productions about Queen Sheba’s life, the GRAMMYs, and being a Black poet. The documentary has marked a pivotal moment for Queen Sheba and the Spoken Word community as one of the first major commercial “follows” produced by a corporate brand while maintaining the integrity of Spoken Word culture.

Sheba is a two-time NAACP Image Award nominee, Creative Loafing’s People’s Choice Spoken Word Artist of the Year, and a City of Atlanta, PATREON, Furious Flower, and Creative Capital artist grant recipient.

She is the Founder of Poetry vs. Hip-Hop, the acclaimed touring stage show and production company established September 29, 2015 / June 2016. In its tenure, Poetry vs. Hip-Hop has given away almost a million dollars and produced shows in over 25 cities nationwide.

Queen Sheba earned her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, taught as a Poet-In-Residence at the University of Illinois, Champagne Urbana and is the author of three books, including her latest release: “From Foster Care to Fame,” her first book of poems and short stories and Run Ugly! A motivational book for runners.

Her second book of poems, “Clemency: poems to help you get over the apologies you will never receive,” edited by her graduate professors as Sheba’s graduating master thesis, [but not limited to], National Book Award Nominee Claudia Rankin and National Book Award Winner Ada Limon, was soft released on August 11 2025.

Queen Sheba, a previous APCA Performer of the Year nominee, has performed at 300+ colleges and universities, domestic and abroad, and has performed in 11 countries. She has been seen on Married to Medicine, Verses & Flow, The Apollo, Live Nation, and has DJ’d for Bravo and the Georgia Department of Health State PREP Tour, to name a few.

Corporate collaborations include, but are not limited to: lululemon, City Winery, Reebok/Rockport, Red Bull, United Way, Les Brown, and Angela Davis.

With a 24-year journey as a touring Spoken Word-Poet, Atlanta’s V103 guest radio personality alongside Joyce Littel, five years as Clark Atlanta’s Creative Writing Professor, The Gentlemen’s Foundation “Gentle Woman of Artistry” of the Year Award recipient for her work in the LGBT community and HIV prevention, comedian, mother, dog-mom, and bathroom concert singer — Queen Sheba’s stage show and workshops will level up your corporate, college, or community experience.

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Booking | Media Requests
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A solo artist/Spoken Word-Poet Feature and/or Event Host or MC:
1 vocal mic
Clean stage - free of cords

With a band*:
Drums
Keys
Bass
Background singer
2 vocal mics

With a Dj:
Dj
background singer
2 vocal mics