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Manny K. Davies
Manny K. Davies born 2001 on February 7 actually burst out the womb as Phoenix Davies…untilllll his mum had a sudden change of mind naming him Emmanuel Davies after a midwife had asked what was the child’s name At 4 to 5 years old Manny who we’ll call Emmanuel for now attended Kensington Infant Avenue school until his mother had to move away taking him and his 18 month older sister 6 years old at the time with her, Emmanuel says all he can remember were his little hands holding a bright green Mike Wazowski toy gifted by his friend, that’s his only memory from before 6 years old so it just goes to show the importance of presents which is actually quite ironic as it is said that Emmanuel doesn’t celebrate his own birthdays and hasn’t since 16 years old but we’ll get into that

At the age of 6 Emmanuel goes to Beaulah Junior Primary School in Thornton Heath New to the Area, Emmanuel hated his name around this age as the other kids would call him Emmanuella a play on his name, Emmanuel hated his name until his Mother Vivienne told him your name means “God is with you and God is with us”, however as the name calling went on this caused Emmanuel to be quite the reserved character until he met his best friend in primary school, Nii Danso

The comedic pair went on to reak havoc until year 6 from girl drama to this and that Nii was the only person Emmanuel had shown his biggest insecurity at the time his outie belly button now surgically removed, even at his young age he knew he was different to the other kids and he didn’t like it, but Nii made his Alien friend feel Normal

This was during a swimming lesson where Emmanuel showed Nii his Outie belly button, also dealing with insecurities such as Crooked Teeth Emmanuel was very hyper alert and socially aware that he was insecure at a young age whilst others didn’t even know if a came after b yet

Emmanuel took swimming classes at beulah junior school since the age of 7 he says “there’s this beautiful place beautiful fearing the cold water and diving in, sinking thinking your drowning and pulling yourself back up, seeing how fast you can swim and how slow you can float”

A great memory of Emmanuel’s is receiving a Nintendo DS on his 7th birthday his mum at work leaving it on the computer desk like a gleaming prize

Emmanuel got bullied by one person in Beulah at the age of 6, Alexander, Emmanuel told his Mum and she lion heartedly said “if someone hits you hit them harder” so Emmanuel went back the next day and fought Alexander and won

Emmanuel had his first kiss at 7 years old he says her lips tasted like banana and strawberry lip gloss

Emmanuel got his first phone in year 5 a blackberry curve he’d install bbm blackberry messenger communicate and send songs to friends friends sending songs back, Emmanuel would post a lot of quotes showing he was a deep thinker aged 10-11 at this time

But before we leave manny’s younger version we’d like to add how it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows, Manny’s father left him at 2 his sister being 3 at the time after his father and his mother got into an argument where she threatened him with an iron and he had had enough, Manny says Vivienne has been a great mum to him and he’s happy she raised him and his sister single handedly because he loves himself his mind and the way he is he feels like he’d be a whole other person if his father stayed

Emmanuel moved homes around 5 times till age 11 around Kensington and Thornton Heath

Emmanuel says one time when he was a child he went house searching with his mum meeting up with a landlord who showed the perfect joined house sharing with people upstairs whilst he would live in the bottom half something very normal at the time in Thornton Heath Emmanuel loved the house but knew there was something wrong with it as he’d never leaves in a “perfect place” before, he looks behind a painting and sees this massive stain of damp he thinks bingo runs down to show his mum who still takes the home he says this was the first time he realised he was growing up in middle class poverty

Back to his school life 2011 arrives and it’s time to go to secondary school, Emmanuel wanted to go to Harris Academy South Norwood where most of his friends went but his mum had opted for Edenham high school a school foreign to Emmanuel, when told he would be attending this school he cried as none of his friends would be going there, Emmanuel says he ended up loving the school now that he’s left

Emmanuel found his love for writing in year 7 at age 11-12 years old he’d read the dictionary in form every morning (the period at the start of school where you speak to your class mentor who is also a teacher assigned to a different form group Emmanuel was form group 7.3) this is because in his English class he had given in his creative writing story and his teacher said “Emmanuel, you have quite the way with words don’t you” this sounded so romantic that it made Emmanuel want to write more stories it made him feel good to know that he had a, way with words, he wasn’t the best footballer wasn’t the fastest runner, but he could be the best writer

Manny fell in love with the words Pernicious Insubordinate Turpitude and Abrupt

Through the English class ranks over the years he ended up being in set 1 for English Literature classes in Edenham

During this time Emmanuel had no clue he’d be interested in being a screenwriter actor extraordinaire, he loved football and wished to play for England one day even dreaming about it once even though now he says he’d prefer to play for Ghana but we’ll get into that later

In year 8 Emmanuel gets the nickname ‘Gatez’ because of his Crooked Teeth that look like gates

In year 9 he gets braces, they fix his teeth he takes them off at the end of year 11

He says getting his braces was a confidence booster and a time stopper, time to find new foods that wasn’t too hard such as mashed potatoes cheddar cheese and beans with milk or water, that feeling of if I do right I’ll look as good as I want, it was the first time I tried out a real skincare routine

And skincare routines would take Manny somewhere as he went onto act in numerous short films over 2017 to 2019, retiring from acting in 2019 but he says the feeling of changing your skincare routine and looking like a whole different person on screen one day to the next shaving your hair growing your hair braids Afro it was a high

A high which took Manny to a dark place but we’ll get into that later

Emmanuel found his love for acting in 2016 year 10 his drama classes with his teacher Mr Diego made him feel like the best actor in town even being awarded with the role of playing Charlie Chaplin in the end of year performance but when Mr Diego left Edenham Manny lost confidence, substitute teachers would come in and ask, “who’s Charlie Chaplin” and when a young black tall skinny male named Emmanuel Davies says “Me” the silence and awkward stares from the teachers would make him lose confidence even though he’d still come alive in his rehearsal performances with Matt Hamm Moyan Hemmings and Joel Clarke, Manny ended up giving the role to Joel as he let the pressure of being a black man playing a white mans role get to him, manny doesn’t know whether he regrets this decision or not but he says Joel did a superb job, Manny played the police officer protagonist part of this

Manny thought acting was just a secondary school phase until his friend Cameron Myrie Smith who had watched the performance had told him “I’ll never forget that performance” Manny wanted others to feel that way so he set to act on screen leaving a future in theatre acting behind

Graduating from Edenham High School now attending Orpington College, fun fact Manny was banned from his school prom at Edenham high school as being conflicted between the quiet yet funny Emmanuel and the Menacing Gatez who would prank people even strangers Emmanuel decided on his last day of school he’d shave off the hair of year 7’s pour ice cubes on the floor and drink some shloer to celebrate howwwwwever whilst Manny was taking a gcse exam Mr Ridley A sports teacher at the school chose to check everyone’s bags realising what Emmanuel had brang he called for Emmanuel and his friend Kano who had a similar idea

But don’t worry though Manny’s prom suit didn’t go to waste as he used the exact outfit he would have wore to a fully focused event in 2017 pictures were taken for those who may want to check back to this time

Manny attended Orpington College 2017-2018 dropping out at age 17 to persue a career in acting and screenwriting as his course in college was business and Manny believes to be a business man you just be a businessman know how money works know what you want to do, you don’t need it aslong as you know maths and how to count and make money

I’m 2017 still attending college Manny attends his first film course taught by YourCinema’s Pierre who would coach Manny from time to time when Manny would come with a new short story Pierre would ask “what’s the meaning of this story? Every short story must have a meaning” this is why every story Manny writes must have a meaning, this film cause is where Manny met Femi Bello a female director who would later cast him in a film called Hugo later that year, also where Manny met Kniekie Miller as she auditioned for a film that the Femi Bello had wrote for the course, Kniekie Miller would go on to act in Manny’s unreleased film Lovenotes under fullyfocused in 2017

Manny had a very close relationship with uk fully focused from 2017-2019 his first screen acting role was under them in a unreleased film where Manny had to act as a homeless man seeing the flip in mindset of the man as the day goes on, this is where Manny met Divon Ball in the film s.l.u.t in 2018, the two hit it off from the start slap boxing joking around and freestyling with fully focused JWhy also on set

In 2018 after making the films LoveNotes and Obroni with fully focused Manny wanted to support his friend Kniekie Miller as she had just acted in the film Too Proud To Beg and the screening was that night so Manny went with Chris Quagraine who had asked him for help to get more into the industry as they were both working on a theatre script together, Manny gets there and at the end Thibaut a London based director and director of Too Proud Too Beg says he’s working on a 7 deadly sins project and they need someone to write LUST for them, Manny with hundreds of short stories noted on his phone gets to writing instantly, coming up with an idea called s.l.u.t, His friend Felix Armah always keeping him up with the film culture had send him the 2pac inspired film The Hate U Give, there’s a scene where the female main character trips and falls at the feet of the Male Main Character, Manny had an idea and if you’ve watched the film you know what that idea was

Manny wrote the script to s.l.u.t in 4 hours sending it to Alex Simpson and the rest is history

Manny would later go onto fall out with Fully Focused over the fact they never released Lovenotes or Obroni

After his Outtie Bellybutton removal surgery in 2017 Manny felt confident to act in films as this meant he could take off his shirt as he does in Hugo filmed in 2019, he goes onto act in Chance the Movie BreadWinner 2 by PRose Reminiscing Music video by Limma 1Shot(Unreleased) and other projects like his own film Give or Take written directed and Starring himself on the sewerswansz channel

Unnoticed tensions rising between Manny K Davies and Fully Focused Manny goes home in a cab(taxi) with Alex Simpson and Fullyfocuses Kat Manny says he’ll transfer £300 at that moment if somebody sends him the links to download the films Lovenotes and Obroni, Alex and Kat decline as they say there was a problem with the films sound, this was the last straw for manny who has cut all ties with FullyFocused but still keeps in touch with Alex Simpson as he says Alex was the one who believed in him from the start believing in his film s.l.u.t enough to help him make it, Manny K. Davies plagued with insecurities was now in 2019 being plagued with Mental illness and paranoia, he started thinking people secretly didn’t like him and were out to get him, not murder but in a, I want to see you fail way, Manny had received an award for 1,000,000 views on the Film s.l.u.t on the 25th of November 2019 he later through the award in the trash as he thought the award was bad luck

Some would say Manny’s career ended in 2019, depression and body dysmorphia taking him over, Manny did his last acting role Hugo in September 2019, he needed a break and couldn’t take it anymore

Frustrated by the fact he only had one big film written by him out knowing he had hundreds of film ideas Manny wrote MKD’s Multibook 25 stories in 25 days available on Amazon now at £20 for a book £7 for an ebook

Manny then had to deal with his mum having symptoms of schizophrenia whilst his sister was living with her boyfriend also attending university, Manny was alone with his sick mum and things became unbearable, running aware numerous times going homeless numerous times and even planning to get on a train till he found an ocean and swimming to France to start a new life

Manny says he tried to kill himself 3 to 5 times during this period

The troubled artist got his wish to leave the country soon enough but we’ll get to that but for now we’d like to leave you with another fact about Manny K. Davies, he calls himself Manny K. Davies as when he was a 16 year old Emmanuel Davies he became depressed as he didn’t have any “real friends” everyone else had best friends he just had friends, he felt like people ignored him didn’t really love him and didn’t deserve him so he decided to run away emotionally by creating a secret Instagram called Manny K. Davies where he could be himself acting to his hearts joy in his first video an audition to director fredinwaka’s horror movie, he didn’t land the role but this video boosted his confidence as the audition was a hit online Manny’s unique story about a boy in the darks shadow wanting to kill him

Manny K. Davies initially meant Manny King Davies nicknaming himself Mannequin Davies enforcing Manny’s goal to be an idol in the short film industry but now in 2021 Manny says the name means Manny Kweku Davies, Kweku as this is his Ghanaian name as he is from Ghanaian heritage, Kweku means Wednesday as Manny was born on a Wednesday

During Manny’s stage of depression he would call the suicide hotline twice a day just for conversation with someone who “understands” and “won’t judge” till one day deciding to play out his emotions in another way, Music

“Sellin’ my life for some f^cking drugs Damn b^tch I was really in love Sl^ttting my wrists and there’s so much blood Two pints in the club and I’m still throwing up and I’m still throwing up”

Not the lyrics you’d expect from the starry eyed Afro haired young teen you saw on the short films but sometimes life can do that to you, not meaning all of his lyrics literally Manny says he wants to be the “embodiment of pain” he’s never slit his wrists as he’s scared to but he’s almost killed himself on numerous occasions, he hasn’t ever taken drugs but he got close once when he was walking through the park one time low on cash as it was coronavirus season and he couldn’t get a job as no one was hiring someone offered him Xans for the low, Manny declined then called back, faced in his room alone his Mum in the mental hospital his life falling apart Manny could’ve divulged himself into the dark realm of Xans maybe even overdosed but after a couple days of temptation and a talk with his friend Jude who had told him this just wasn’t him he flushed the Xans down the toilet yet continued to make songs about drugs as drugs represent heartbreak pain suicidal thoughts in one, and that’s what he feels so he sums it down to the simple word, drugs

Manny would go onto make 4 released but unofficial music projects Range of Emotions being the most popular he’s planning on releasing 4 new albums professionally and giving himself to the world even more embracing the pain

In 2021 manny did escape the pain for a brief while being with his uncles in Ghana one rich one the realest real man you can ever get and one caring loving who manny would have good conversations with Manny found his home in Ghana for the first time being talked to not just judged and competed with, but Manny knew if he wanted to be one of the being people in the short film industry he had to leave the love and go back to London back to his books and back to his life leaving his uncles Million Dollar Mansion and a chance to stay in Ghana for 4 years at the university to make his own name Manny says he hopes to one day return to Ghana with his films made his books business booming and his own Mansion

Extra funny facts about Manny K. Davies

His favourite foods went from wotsits and volvic water to Cheetos and Highland Water to Ceralac to Wine Gums and Sprite which he know longer drinks as he realises he’s allergic to an ingredient sprite contains, and it’s actually rather common for boys in London to still eat dry wheat Ceralac for some reason, hm

Page by Ricky Stone Phillips Rickystonephillips (talk) 17:07, 4 July 2021 (UTC)