Mojo Mendiola

Mojo Mendiola Mendiola (aka: Mojo Trebron and Norbert Mendiola) (born January 12, 1954, Kempen, Germany) is a German writer, musicologist and Afro-American philologist, photographer and artist.
He grew up in Düsseldorf, Germany and studied German and English/American philology. In the 1970s he started out as a singer/songwriter in folk and blues music and spent considerable time in Amsterdam and London. In 1981 he went to New York City and in the same year was chosen as one of the winners of the New York Songwriters in Concert contest at Gerde's Folk City (along with Suzanne Vega). Under the guidance of LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka he broadened his studies of Afro-American literature and history.

In 1983 he retired from stage and - after settling in Hamburg, Germany - has been publishing in a variety of music magazines and newspapers such as "BM - Black Music & Jazz Review" (London), "Stereo" (then Munich, now Euskirchen) and "Blues Forum" (Berlin, ceased publication in May 1987) and editing the intercultural music website global-mojo.com. The Center for Black Music Research at the Columbia College Chicago listed him in their Directory Of Scholars. He also published a children's book in German about multicultural urban life entitled "Palle Puzzlebüx und die Kinder der offenen Stadt" (ISBN 3 - 8330 - 0679 - X) and the satirical "Helmut Lichtergang erklärt Deutschland" (ISBN 3 - 8334 - 2442 - 7) (both not available anymore). Since 1999 he has been active as an artist in digital painting.
He moved to Krefeld, Germany in 2007 and remains present in public as an artist and music journalist. Together with Günter Holthoff he published the documentary book "50 Jahre Jazzkeller Krefeld" (Leporello-Verlag Krefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-936783-29-2). He is a permanent freelance contributor to the daily paper "Rheinische Post" and has been exhibiting his digital paintings and mixed media objects since 2009 in Krefeld, Kempen, Moers and Düsseldorf (all Germany), Detroit and New York.

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