Selimah Nemoy is a storyteller, journalist, and author. Born in Los Angeles, her coming-of-age journey was shaped in the 1960s by soul music, then by the turbulent, multicultural 1970s in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area. The daughter of Maury Nemoy, a renown calligrapher, Selimah learned the art from her father and worked with him at Columbia Pictures where he designed movie titles.
Selimah will tell you that the story of her life and career has been as unexpected as Forrest Gump’s. After serving as the English editor for a Japanese newspaper, she was hired by an Italian newspaper which led to her traveling with President Bill Clinton’s White House Press Corps to the 1994 G7 in Naples.
Her stage play, THE DADDIES, was directed by actress Lee Chamberlin and performed in the theatre of San Francisco’s Western Addition Cultural Center, renamed to honor the play’s beloved producer, Buriel Clay II, who was killed by a drunk driver ten days before opening night. THE DADDIES was also performed at San Quentin Prison.
Selimah is the author of SINCE I LOST MY BABY: A MEMOIR OF TEMPTATIONS, TROUBLE & TRUTH (OG Press 2020) in which she writes about how in 1967 she was forced to give up her baby for adoption and told to “just go home and pretend it never happened.” Instead, she embarked on a Motown-infused journey to Barcelona, Oakland, and Hawaii to find love, truth, and ultimately her daughter. Their spectacular reunion 24 years later was featured on the Oprah Winfrey show. The video of that interview and more about her book can be found at her website, selimahnemoy.com
Selimah’s story is one of loss and redemption, and the power of soul music that brought her through it.
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