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A native of the Bronx, New York Maurice McFadden began his career in the entertainment business 20 years ago. He amassed a multitude of skills from post production and editing to directing and producing. His resume includes underground houses to the high profile company Vibe Magazine. His experience led him to create P.O.R. Management to propagate the development of artist. In 1997 Maurice and his brother founded an independent label, Fo The Fam Entertainment. With r&b, hip hop and gospel music, the label had success with artist like Tangela and P.O.R. Maurice is a member of ASCAP as a songwriter and also has a production company P.O.R. Music. Maurice has also been instrumental as a composer for an off Broadway play. With the release of Strength Like Yours, Maurice advances his creativity to another level as a published poet. He makes his home in Staunton, Virginia.
Reviewed by Rich Follett for Readers' Favorite
“Strength Like Yours” by Maurice McFadden is an eminently human collection of poetry which serves as a timely reminder that there are certain conditions, fears, and joys that we all share, regardless of our heritage, social status or life path. Being alive is the only ticket needed to enter the arena of McFadden’s heartfelt and passionate verse. In ‘What Happens Now,’ McFadden asks “how could our world be so beautiful one day/and so dark the next” - one of the most universal human cries to the universe. There is no answer; that is the point. McFadden reminds us to give thanks to God and family, fight injustice and prejudice where we find it, treasure the love we are given and appreciate fully each day that we live - simple truths for a complex world - truths we need to hear again and again.
As it happens, Maurice McFadden is a black man who is sometimes angry, often troubled, and sometimes weak. These points are important to consider in appreciating his message, but they are NOT the message. It is his truths that speak most loudly; his heritage merely colors that speech to make it distinctive and uniquely personal. McFadden’s timeless truths are delivered with wit, grit, humor and no small amount of humility. Like an old friend who reminds us of something we have always known but need to hear again, McFadden brings us back to our own incontrovertible accountability. We MUST be grateful. We MUST NOT take our life, our success for granted. McFadden is at his eloquent best in 'Thank God, Part 1': “thank you for breathing life into my lungs/helping me to rise with the sun/see you spared my life/and brought me through/another day I will see because of you/and I thank you.” Amen, Maurice. Wish we could all have “Strength Like Yours.”
