Adán Bean is an accomplished spoken word poet, emcee, storyteller and voice-over talent hailing from the small town of Massillon, OH but has called Atlanta home for over a decade. As a graduate of Morehouse College, Adán has anchored his creative base firmly in the Atlanta arts, culture, and music scene. Adan was recently selected as one of 7 artists selected for Emory University’s groundbreaking Arts & Social Justice Fellowship 2023 cohort. After bringing his talents to the Kennedy Center in 2020, Adán was awarded the Serenbe Frances Focus Fellowship from the South Fulton Institute. Adán Bean filmed a Tiny Desk concert performance and directed the short documentary film “Curb Appeal,” which tackles the issues of housing insecurity and home inequity. As a 2019 TEDx speaker and 2017 National Poetry Slam song winner, he’s represented Atlanta on numerous slam teams for the PSI National Poetry Slam Competition. In June 2021, he debuted Double Consciousness, an original stage show alongside comedian-collaborator David Perdue, at the historic Morton Theater (Athens, GA).

As one half of the retro-progressive hip-hop group, The Remnant, Adán has released three projects with the band as well as touring the country extensively, bringing the music to the masses. Most recently, Adán dropped the first in a series of EPs exploring the idea of “home”. QUIET is available now along with its lead single, “Field.Hand.Writing”.

Adán served as editor-in-chief for Janelle Monae’s Wondaland.com as well as the culture site Forth District. Additionally, he hosted The SetList podcast for two seasons, where he interviewed artists and musicians through the prism of their musical influences. His work has been featured on or with companies/brands such as Change.org, TEDx, Habitat for Humanity, CarMax, Coca-Cola, Cricket Wireless, Delta Airlines, SONY Music Group, Def Jam, Cash Money Records, and more. Adán Bean is working on his sophomore EP as well as his first work of collected poems and essays while touring colleges throughout the Midwest this Spring and Fall semester.