SoVocab

     Giovanni
(SoVocab) Pabon

                        “I AM the opposition to music that
supports hopelessness and doubt and I refuse to keep love silent when hate is
so loud.” – Giovanni (SoVocab) Pabon

            Boston Massachusetts’s Felicia Florence birthed not just
your normal Hip Hop artist, but an artist who injects Love, Peace, and Faith
into the lives of those he comes into contact with. Some call him a Christian
Rapper… But he says he is just a rapper who has zero tolerance for worldly
conformity. But how does a young man like himself gain so much wisdom by the
age of twenty? Well, he wasn’t always this wise.

            Giovanni was at a disadvantage since the age of one when
his father was gunned down in the streets of Boston Massachusetts. Being raised
in a single family home caused a lot of confusion for Giovanni, especially
during his years of elementary school. Seeing other children with a mother and
father caused Giovanni to become insecure and feel incomplete. Abnormal is the
best way to describe how Giovanni felt during the remainder of his childhood
causing him to search for somewhere to belong. At the age of thirteen Giovanni
became an affiliated gang member seeking the fraternity and fatherhood that his
heart so greatly desired. But on November 17, 2006 Giovanni was arrested and on
the 23rd of November was convicted of an armed robbery with his new
found brothers nowhere to be found during the following months of house arrest.
 

            After completing nine months of house arrest, Giovanni
was invited to a youth church service at Jubilee Christian Church at 1500 Blue
Hill Ave. Boston, Ma. That was the first time he had encountered genuine LOVE
from individuals his age. However he wasn’t willing to commit to the
consistency of being in church on a Friday night. Giovanni wanted to go back to
“Doing him” but he was ruined. He realized that once one experiences life, it becomes
almost impossible to again walk in death. So a month later he went back to
Jubilee for youth night and on this particular day God choose to draw him in. With
his hands raised and a beautiful melody of the words “Lead Me To The Cross”
playing he suddenly knew where he belonged. Since that day, Giovanni has been
living for the Lord, Jesus Christ.

Sovocab’s most recent
release “Pawns” debuted on Itunes Gospel charts at the #68 Spot.

The
project is a cry to those who are unknowingly being used as tools of the enemy
to destroy not only themselves but their communities.