Wicked Wisdom

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ocalist Jada Koren Pinkett Smith formed Wicked Wisdom in 2002. The band grew to include Pocket Honore (guitar/vocals), Cameron "Wirm" Graves (guitar/keyboard/vocals), Rio Lawrence (bass/vocals) and Philip "Fish" Fisher (ex-Fishbone; bass). The band is managed by James Lassiter and Miguel Melendez of Overbrook Entertainment, a company co-founded by Pinkett Smith's husband Will Smith. Jada Koren Pinkett Smith is an American actress and talk show host. She is co-host of the Facebook Watch talk show Red Table Talk, for which she has received a Daytime Emmy Award. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021. Although boasting these credentials it wasn't enough to give her credibility in the music world it seems for in May 2005 when organizers announced Wicked Wisdom would perform on the second stage of 2005's Ozzfest, fans of the festival were outraged, claiming the band did not have the credibility to perform at the music festival. Aware of the questions about the band's addition, Pinkett Smith said, "I'm not here asking for any favors. You've got to show and prove. And not every audience is going to go for it." Guitarist Pocket Honore said while early dates of the tour were rocky, "once word got out that we weren't a joke, people started coming out and by the sixth or seventh gig we were on fire." Wicked Wisdom got the slot from earlier that year when they impressed Sharon Osbourne (wife and manger of Ozzy Osbourne) at a small night club in Los Angeles, California.