high school, the six- footsix-inch dual athlete played
defensive end for the
football team and center in
basketball.
He didn’t start singing
until he was 13 when his
grandmother put him on
the spot in church and
asked him to sing one
Sunday morning. “I want
to tell you it was a great
thing but it was pretty
bad,” Micah laughs. “I have
one of those grandmothers
that doesn’t like to be
embarrassed. And I swore
I would never let that
happen again.”
landed in a canal. The water
began to rise rapidly until
his nose became quickly
and completely submerged.
He could no longer breathe.
From that point on, he
sought to improve his voice
as well as his athletics. He
joined the church’s praise
and worship team where he
spent the next five honing
his craft. After graduation,
he enrolled in school at
Florida Memorial in Miami
to study political science
and public administration.
But his life took a twisted
turn one dreaded Labor
Day Weekend when Micah
was almost killed in a car
accident. He was driving
home to Fort Lauderdale
On any given day, young
from school when his SUV
Micah could be found on
hydroplaned off the road
either the football field or
basketball court. And through in the pouring rain and
After a year in a wheelchair,
Micah astonished the
doctors with a full recovery.
“It was all for a purpose. It
led me to understand the
heeling wasn’t my own,”
says Micah. “It helped me to
realize that now is that time
to push forward and do
what I need to do.”
Since then, Micah has
known no boundaries. He
launched a career in print
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