ICONIC November 2015 | Page 56

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 modeli