Joey Semz (1976–2007) was a prolific graffiti artist[1] who gained notoriety as a graffiti writer for writing the name SEMZ throughout the five boroughs of New York City. An aspiring acoustic folk guitarist and singer-songwriter, his last years were mostly dedicated to making music in and about, New York City, where he died at aged 31 on April 7, 2007.
He created and self-recorded a number of bootleg CD’s bearing different titles that would often be peddled, but mostly given away to friends at venues that he would be playing at: such as Joe’s Pub, Don Hill’s, 205, Piano’s, and M1-5. In 2006, the record label aNYthing, recorded and released a CD of his music titled “A Great Believer”.
