Bilal, a voice;Randy Runyon, guitar;Conley “Tone” Whitfield, bass;Joseph Grissett aka Joe Blaxx, drums
Although his activities span across genres – from New soul to rock-Bilal says he "feels like he's a jazz musician first". To come to this conclusion on our own, it is enough to experience one of his performances – they are always partially improvised and different every time, which is not a very common practice with vocalist performers. Of course, the core of his / her term as a pure concrete underpin the – the jazz, he studied at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York city, where, from the study, it is not complete it is, the more important it is that he is there he met Robert Glasperja, which is a lot of work and through which it came to collaborations with names such as Q-Tip and Mos Def.
Considered one of the more striking musicians at the intersection of contemporary R & B, neo-soul and jazz in the United States, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, he is one of the key innovators of African-American musical modernity. He is appreciated for his wide range of voice and improvisational skills, as well as for his ability to combine and fluently cross between different genres, and above all for being a unique performer of unforgettable live performances.
He released his debut album"1st Born Second"in 2001, working with producers such as Dr. Dre, James Po Animacser and J Dilla. There is almost no point in listing the further list of performers and performers with whom he created, but the key note is that he was in the watershed period of the late 90s. let strongly embedded in the then extremely lively and mo(go)SN rap and neo-soul community in NE Animatork. His unparalleled engagement secured him membership in the soul Animatuarians Research Collective – a group of creators combining influences from jazz, soul and hip-hop (along with names such as D'angelo, er Animatkah Badu, Animatuestlove, Mos Def, Talib K Animateli, J Dilla and Raphael Saadi/). It was a truly unique, if not revolutionary, society that redefined American black popular music and whose innovations resonate to this day.
Bilal as a participating artist of the song"These Walls"Kendricka Lamarja the recipient of the awards the grammy's (the album,"To Pimp a Butterfly"has taken part in a number of images recorded by the camera). His performance with The Roots has been cited by many as one of the most convincing of the entire tin acid Desk series, and last year he released his latest album,"Adjust Brightness". But all of the above are just fragments of outstanding references of an outstanding performer.
Bilal, glas;Randy Runyon, kitara;Conley “Tone” Whitfield, bas;Joseph Grissett aka Joe Blaxx, bobni
Čeprav se njegova dejavnost razpenja čez razne žanre – od novega soula do rocka -, pa Bilal zase pravi, da »čuti, da je najprej jazzovski glasbenik«. Da pridemo do te ugotovitve sami, je dovolj, da doživimo enega njegovih nastopov – ti so vedno delno improvizirani in vsakič drugačni, kar pri izvajalcih vokalistih ni ravno pogosta praksa. Seveda pa ima jedro njegovega izraza čisto konkretno podstat – jazz je študiral na New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music v New Yorku, kjer pa je od samega študija, ki ga ni dokončal, bolj pomembno to, da je tam spoznal Roberta Glasperja, s katerim je potem veliko delal in prek katerega je prišel do sodelovanj z imeni, kot sta Q-Tip in Mos Def.
Pevec, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist in producent, ki velja za enega bolj markantnih glasbenikov stičišča sodobnega r & b-ja, neo-soula in jazza v ZDA, je eden ključnih inovatorjev afroameriške glasbene sodobnosti. Cenjen je zaradi širokega razpona glasu in improvizacijske spretnosti, pa tudi zato, ker zna združevati in tekoče prehajati med raznimi žanri, predvsem pa zato, ker je edinstven performer nepozabnih živih nastopov.
Svoj prvenec»1st Born Second«je izdal leta 2001, na njem pa sodeloval z raznimi producenti, kot so Dr. Dre, James Poyser in J Dilla. Nadaljnjega spiska izvajalk in izvajalcev, s katerimi je ustvarjal, skoraj nima smisla naštevati, ključna opomba pa je, da je bil v prelomnem obdobju konca 90. let močno vpet v takrat izjemno živahno in mo(go)čno rap in neo-soul skupnost v New Yorku. Njegov nespregledljiv angažma mu je zagotovil članstvo v raziskovalnem kolektivu Soulquarians – skupini ustvarjalcev, ki je združevala vplive jazza, soula in hip-hopa (skupaj z imeni, kot so D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, Questlove, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, J Dilla in Raphael Saadiq). To je bila res edinstvena, če ne kar revolucionarna druščina, ki je na novo definirala ameriško črnsko popularno muziko in katere inovacije odzvanjajo še danes.
Bilal je kot sodelujoči izvajalec pri skladbi“These Walls”Kendricka Lamarja prejemnik nagrade grammy (na albumu»To Pimp a Butterfly«je sicer sodeloval pri več posnetkih). Njegov nastop s skupino The Roots mnogi naštevajo kot enega najprepričljivejših celotne Tiny Desk serijalke, lani pa je izdal svoj zadnji album»Adjust Brightness«. A vse našteto so le drobci izjemnih referenc izjemnega performerja.