Debut spoken-word album · Independently produced
Must Go On:A Rite of Passage
Poetry, music, and real family recordings collide in a story about grief, recovery, fatherhood, coming out, and surviving what was supposed to break you.
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Must Go On: A Rite of Passage is an independently produced spoken-word album built from original poetry, music, and archival family recordings. Thank you for listening and considering the work.
The Green Family Archive
“Memory is not linear. It interrupts. It repeats. It changes shape as we do.”
A record of what remains.
Must Go On: A Rite of Passage began as a stage work and became something more intimate: a record of memory, grief, identity, recovery, and survival.
Terrell’s father, Melvin Green, was the family’s documentarian. He photographed celebrations, recorded home videos, and preserved the ordinary moments that became the Green Family Archive. Long before Terrell understood media production, his father showed him how images could hold a family’s history.
Written after Terrell lost his father and entered rehab the following year, the album moves between spoken word, music, and excerpts from their final recorded conversation. His father’s voice is not merely an interlude. It is part of the album’s emotional architecture.
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The official 16-page digital booklet includes the artist’s note, family photographs preserved by Melvin Green, the story of the final conversation, full album credits, and track-by-track personnel.
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Download Press Kit PDF ↓ Press Release PDF ↓ High-resolution Album Cover PNG ↓ Artist Photo: Portrait JPG ↓ Artist Photo: Landscape JPG ↓ Short Bio READ ↓ Long Bio READ ↓ Media Contact EMAIL ↓Interview topics
- Turning a stage work into a debut spoken-word album
- Grief, recovery, and queer coming-of-age
- Using real family recordings without losing their intimacy
- Building an independent Grammy campaign without a label or publicist
Short bio
Terrell M. Green is a Los Angeles-based writer, performer, and digital media producer whose work blends spoken word, theatre, and documentary storytelling. He earned a Master of Science in Digital Media Management from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. His debut spoken-word album, Must Go On: A Rite of Passage, transforms grief, recovery, queer identity, and real family recordings into a deeply personal record of survival.
Long bio
Terrell M. Green is a Los Angeles-based writer, performer, producer, and digital storyteller whose work moves between theatre, spoken word, and documentary media. He earned a Master of Science in Digital Media Management from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. His creative work has been featured by CNN, HuffPost, the Los Angeles Sentinel, American Theatre, and other media outlets.
Must Go On: A Rite of Passage, his debut spoken-word album, grew from a stage work written after the death of his father and during Green’s recovery from alcohol addiction. Blending original poetry, music, and excerpts from the final recorded conversation between Green and his father, the album explores grief, faith, masculinity, coming out, and survival. Independently produced by 267 Productions Co., LLC, the project continues Green’s commitment to transforming deeply personal material into culturally resonant storytelling.
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267productions@tgreen267.comTerrell is available for radio, podcast, print, digital, and television interviews.