Jazz singer, drummer & retro-starlet! ジャズとウイスキー Monk, Mingus, Miles, Ellington, Strayhorn, Chet & originals....
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BlackLioN sounds like BlackLioN only! A Cameroonian musician & film maker based in Berlin- Germany. A raw soulful and energetic hiphop artist  with with afro-caribic influences introduced in his debut album" A LION´S HEART" was in 2005.  after mixtapes, and singles, Eps, he wrote/produced & directed the on going first film " IT IS WAT IT IS" ( a tapestry of Berlin immigrational urban struggles in Berlin). His music and films portray some of the real life encounters he faced growing up in Europe and the US, in which he and his family were granted Political asylum. In Feb 2018 he returned to music releasing the album " KEEP ON GRINDING". An uptempo Rap/R&B album fused with Afrobeat, Trap and Electronic Dance music. His voice creates a very unique vibe " Blacklionstyle" says it all.  The album incl. the singles and videos for,  PUT IN WORK ft. Megaloh ( German rapper), ROPE-A-DOPE & DOING MY JOB. BlackLioN also featured on the singles MOVIN UP & LOOK AT ME NOW (2018 ) by Pop artist, SOLARRIO (who also produces BlackLioN).  Recently, he has released the singles "Out of the mud" feat.  Zlatan ( Nigerian rapper), MONEY DON COME feat. Ora Solar & Chris Btz ( Dominican Republic & France),   I WANNA LOVE IT incl. a video,  DEM GO VEX  & HERE I GO AGAIN. His Ep drops in spring/summer of 2020.

Guitarist, composer/songwriter, singer teacher residing in Stamford, CT (soon moving back to The People's Republic of Brooklyn). Nigh on 50 years in music biz as bandleader and side person to top jazz instrumentalists and singers such as Donald Byrd, Vernell Fournier, Barry Harris, Chris Anderson, Big Joe Turner and Hadda Brooks. Co-composer with Jimmy Norman (lyricist for Time is on My Side, collaborator with Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix) of You're My Foundation---dedicated to the charitable works for musicians of the Jazz Foundation of America. A video about the song and JFA, starring luminaries such as Quincy Jones, Dr. John and Freddie Hubbard, went worldwide and is linked below

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