Vincent D'jon Parette, known as Vinx, is musician and former athlete. Vinx attended Kansas State University on a track scholarship. In 1977, hate nearly took away Vinx?s athletic career and his life when racists burned down his house, along with the home of another black family living in his Kansas City suburb. Vinx was severely burnt by the fire. He overcame his injuries and three years later made the world?s second longest leap in the triple jump. This qualified Vinx for the 1980 Moscow Olympics. When President Jimmy Carter called for an Olympic boycott that year, Vinx?s athletic goals were put on hold. A deejay in college, Vinx also performed with the Kansas State Jazz Band. In 1978, Taj Mahal invited Vinx to perform with him at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. When Vinx?s Olympic dream was deferred, he turned his back on track, but after two years returned as an assistant coach for the women?s track team at the Unive