{"id":6591,"date":"2019-06-29T06:31:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T13:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000000167"},"modified":"2019-06-29T17:39:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T00:39:42","slug":"video-artist-and-eddies-liquor-label-owner-senay-kenfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/video-artist-and-eddies-liquor-label-owner-senay-kenfe","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Artist and Eddie&#8217;s Liquor label owner Senay Kenfe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gDs3RQ0I0x0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Senay Kenfe was born and raised in the Wrigley neighborhood where he grew up with gang members. Though never a gang member himself, he was nevertheless associated with the lifestyle much of his young life and was prohibited from attending his neighborhood high school, Long Beach Poly, because he&#8217;d been placed on a gang injunction list.<\/p>\n<p>School district officials wanted to send him to Jordan High but Kenfe knew that would surely lead to him being beaten up on a regular basis because of the neighborhood he called home, so his mother used the address of a friend to get him into Millikan High. The experience was life-changing: he met kids from well-off families and was not only amazed at the size of their homes\u2014he and his six family members lived in a two-bedroom apartment\u2014and extent of their afterschool snack choices, but was quick to see the musical possibilities of their laptops and turntables.<\/p>\n<p>It was at their homes that he first learned to use a turntable and, upon graduating, took classes at Long Beach City College to continue his growth as an artist.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Kenfe, 29, writes and performs his music and owns his own record label, Eddie&#8217;s Liquor.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senay Kenfe was born and raised in the Wrigley neighborhood where he grew up with gang members. 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