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BILAL SUNNIALI/SONG OF LIFE ENSEMBLE!!!

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BILAL SUNNI-ALI is a musician, performer, composer, educator, community activist and advocate. He has performed live, on stage with Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson, Doug Carn, Stevie Wonder, Wynton Marsaillis, American ..Symphony Orchestra, Jimmi Hopps-Esspirit, Earl Turbinton, Pharoah Saunders, and many, many more. He has been a student of John La Porta, Gebre H’watt and Yuself Lateef.. He has taught music in public and private schools including McDonough 15 in New Orleans, Uhuru Sasa in Brooklyn, Washington DC, Mississippi, California and Georgia.. As a composer BILAL has written for and collaborated with Gil Scott-Heron, Jo Grinage, Ebony JoAnn and Black Arts Movement architects Askia M. Toure’ and Amiri Baraka. BILAL has lectured on campuses and at community institutions locally, nationally and internationally on music, culture and related topics. Co-Founder of the Griot Society I New York 1975; the performing arts director of the SAMECA Inc.(Southern Arts, Media, Education, Connections Association) and he is a performing member of the World Health Arkestra.. Theatrical Experience He has been a community health-care worker, a drug addiction recovery counselor and a consultant on alternative therapy.. BILAL recently toured the United States, Europe Scandonavia and South Afrika once again a featured soloists with Gil Scott-Heron celebrating the re-releases on CDs of some classic Midnight Band albums now on |Gil’s own label. BILAL SUNNI-ALI currently lives in Atlanta’s Historic West End district where he is a practicing Muslim and on many Sunday evenings can be caught ‘jamming’ in the West End at the Lush Life Café’(non-alcoholic/vegetarian). He frequents the Carolinas, Florida, (misses NEW ORLEANS ), Texas, points divergent and in between performing at festivals and other alternative venues. Upon relocating to Atlanta he founded the SONG OF LIFE ENSEMBLE AND INSTITUTE through which he teaches (woodwinds), conducts Therapeutic Music Appreciation Sessions and offers performance/lectures on on a variety of subjects related to music, culture and social change…and through which he has released his own CD “SEVEN TIMES SEVEN”. 1999 .(("SONG OF LIFE" PREFORM LIVE AT THE CENTER STAGE ARENA FEATURING: Bilal Sunni Ali & Darryl "D-MAN" of the Milesahead Ensemble.))

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(((BILAL SUNNI ALI featured horn player of the "Milesahead Ensemble")))

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Member Since: 11/07/2007
Band Website: MYSPACE PAGE CREATED BY: Studio East .Biz
Band Members: "SONG OF LIFE" Bilal Sunni Ali SAXOPHONIST/BAND LEADER LECTURE/TEACHER 404-324-2602/770-774-7420SONG OF LIFE ENSEMBLEBILAL SUNNI-ALI, Often called the northern capital of the Caribean, New Orleans (before Katrina) has the largest population of Hondurans outside of Honduras. Saxophonist Bilal Sunni-Ali is from a family tree woven from these roots. Bilal Sunni-Ali has taught music in New Orleans public schools as well as played in and around the Crescent City.RAH AMEN As a percussionist featured with the Sun Ra Arkestra as well as George Clinton’s Parlaiment Funkadelic a native of Greenville, SC planted his feet in New Orleans soil a few decades ago where he first met Bilal and Baba AlonzoBABA ALONZO McALPINE Baba Alonzo is a percussionist born and raised in the New Orleans traditons and trained in the priestly traditions of Nigeria who has studied and absorbed all of the elements of black music from Brooklyn to Brazil into his personal style.RAHSEED FAKHIR An acoustic bass violinist par excellence, handling the electric quite excellently also. Hailing from Cleveland, Ohio he has lived and played all over the Caribean and South America.KEVIN OZBORNE OZ dubbed the “wizard(0f OZ)” by his contemporaries with his hands on the music nurtured through Be-bop…his father was a personal friend of Thelonious Monk and it comes out in his piano and keyboard playing and especially in his understanding and use of the principles of Harmony. MUSIC IS THE HEALING FORCE OF THE UNIVERSE
Influences: (((BILAL SUNNI ALI, PLAYING SAX: Milesahead Ensemble To LUSH LIFE ENSEMBLE)))
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Record Label: Independent Promotions

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MUSIC IS THE HEALING FORCE OF THE UNIVERSE

             SONG OF LIFE ENSEMBLE     BILAL SUNNI-ALI, Often called the northern capital of the Caribean, New OrleansHonduras....
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