Zaki Ibrahim-STOLEN FROM AFRICA

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ZAKI BIO


Twenty-five years, four continents, and several generations in the making, Zaki Ibrahim's music is captivating and vibrant. It's thick with poetics, and steeped in a delicious mixture of earnest emotion and humor. "It (her music) comes from knowing a struggle, but it's never really about struggle." She was shaped by the diversity of her Apartheid-era hometown and household , where the lessons of Islam fed into discussions of Buddhism, Sufi philosophies courted drums, and Scottish folk songs intertwined with a rich, epic ancestral history. "My mother was an English teacher, a poet and a writer. I write in my Umi's language. Her words have allowed me to translate my experience the way I do. To me, few see the world as exquisitely as she portrays it."

This very same, fine web of worlds is present in every note, in every tone, in every word, and it is what makes her music both timeless and so undeniably fresh. By the time Zaki began writing and performing songs as a child, she was already well familiar with the life of a traveler, switching up continents as often as some people switch up hairdos. She was first introduced to hip hop in South Africa, and then continued her journey with music as a teen in Canada's west coast.

Zaki began to build on her craft, swiftly garnering attention, industry and media praises, and emerging as a noteworthy talent on both sides of the Atlantic. Not satisfied with merely playing role of an entertainer, she was quick to embrace a dual role of singer and cultural connector, building on the ground level, lending her energy and talent to workshops and interactive performances in schools, prisons, and in communities around the world.

She has utilized her music talent to aid in community based initiatives as well as facilitating workshops and activities for youth at risk. Her involvement with District Six Music is based on her philosophy that cultures exchanged lend to greater understanding and tolerance. She has involved herself in many other projects working within the realm of music moving toward social change. This has recently culminated in her co-founding the Universal Magnetic organization, a project which works to manifest her words:

"I realise that the amount of ground possible to cover in a lifetime too often depends on money. I pray that the good guys get rich and stay on the ground...where true beauty lives...

She has worked with a broad family of Canadian and South African musicians, composers, and producers, including Juno Award-winners Kemo (Rascalz) and DJ Serious (Quartertones), and notable up-and-comers Gigz, Darp Malone, DJ Nana, Nick Holder,. She has shared stages with Gift of Gab, Ladybug Mecca of the Digable Planets, Bahamadia, Tumi and the Volume, K'naan, Pocket Dwellers, Saukrates, King Reign, The Quartertones, Hero, and was honored recently by an invitation to perform at Canada's first ever Beat Society.

2006 is bound to be an explosive year for Zaki. Two singles, "Grow" and "Daylight" (released under the Treehouse label in the UK) are making the rounds internationally, and she is currently putting the finishing touches on a mixtape-style EP. Her first official full-length release, a highly anticipated live album and a few more collaborations are in the works, and are set to drop by the end of the year. Above and beyond anything else, Zaki's strongest certainty is that she will be holding true to her nomadic lifestyle, with plans to tour excessively, both solo and with her live band, throughout Canada, France, the UK, South Africa, and beyond.

Filling bellies and nourishing souls across borders, cultures, genres, and generations-anywhere the wind blows, Zaki's music will find a home.

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[Reido2828]

@MrRobyopunkass

Because you are speaking in very vulgar tones for no reason. Learn history you racist bigot

[MrRobyopunkass]

@Reido2828 Y am i a bigot u fukkin shirt tukker

[Reido2828]

@MrRobyopunkass

Um no you bigot. You racist entitled liberal trash pile

[MrRobyopunkass]

@Reido2828 shut tha fukk up u turkey

[Reido2828]

@fillethefish

No thats not true either. Lol this is a serious historical fallacy here in the west we get taught and it seems to continue even after generations have gotten way past it lol. You ought to read an alternative view of history like maybe check out Niall Ferguson on his history claims and ideas and go from there. I mean I can't even begin to debunk what you just claimed to me. I don't mean to be hostile but right now I grow tired of the same racial arguments being made

[fillethefish]

You have proven your point. However, in the future try to ease down somewhat. "I'm sick and tired of..." that attitude in your earlier comments "...and so are others".

BTW are you an Irish male or a Canadian lady?

[Reido2828]

@fillethefish

Then explain to me this history because I see a lot of sacrifices that were made in the past to help the black community. Unless human beings embrace each other as individuals first we will never break free of this race problem. No matter what point you make on the past or the present nothing in the future will change if we keep up these absurd movements. European people should be proud of their history. We should not be brought up hating our past NEVER.

[fillethefish]

@Reido2828 -Call it "old news", but my interest turns to history, yours to rational problem solving and we absolutely need both parts to make the right decisions today.

[fillethefish]

@Reido2828 -And i hope you don't see me for a fool for believing colonialism/exploiting has put history of on the wrong foot. It has happened a LOT since then, yes. And the the progress has been other than promising (as a whole for the continent).

I have never blamed "the white man" for todays problem, only blamed him for putting power and dangerous and advanced tools in the hands of the wrong people in the improper stage of territorial and social development-

[fillethefish]

@Reido2828 I shall make myself even more clear. You are entirely right about corruption etc as todays problem, and that is what we shall focus on and try to come away from. You think we should put the old historic events besides to be more rational and deal with current problems, that is an agreeable. I don't understand why you get so upset about me referring to 18th century historic events. My only point has been that past events has lead to build the world we see today, good or bad-