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Style: Soul, Hip Hop, Jazz
Origin: USA
Touring party: 5
Territory: Exclusive for Europe
Availability: on request

After hearing his demo at a Philadelphia barbershop Bilal was asked by a record executive if he was interested in becoming a recording artist. Eventually Bilal moved to Brooklyn and began gigging around the city. His tape landed in the hands of Erykah Badu, for whom he appears and produces on her album, Mama's Gun. Subsequently, Common asked Bilal to write and perform with Jill Scott the hook for his single "Alright, Ok." "Common called me, said we want some George Clinton shit. ’We Want the Funk' part two," Bilal explains. Bilal then was indoctrinated into the collective Soul Aquarians, along with folks like Badu, Mos Def, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Q-Tip, and D’Angelo. "They're like our forefathers," he says. "They were doing this not so long ago, but I was just coming up. I'm like their child."
Hence, 1st Born Second.
The past four years have found Bilal touring and reconnecting with his passion for classical Jazz. Along with a series of sold out solo performances his fans have been delighted to find him accompanying Blue Note recording artist Robert Glasper’s Jazz Trio. Just as Bilal is trained to sing opera in seven different languages he has at a moments notice transformed and delivered a show stopping performance in many genre’s over the past four years exemplified in his album appearances with Mary J. Blige, Kanye West, Common, John Legend including film appearances in Dave Chapelle’s Block Party and The Fighting Temptations starring Beyonce’ Knowles.
Bilal writes his music, lyric and note. Because of all these things: exquisite turns of phrase, an understanding of pitch, emotion and the note Bilal is surely one of the most significant artists of our changing times.