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Hanifah Walidah
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Hanifah Walidah is an American poet, rapper, singer, actress, playwright, educator and LGBT activist. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with artists like The Vibe Khameleons, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Alexkid [fr], Mike Ladd, St.Lo, and Antipop Consortium.Walidah was born in New York. At the start of her career, she joined the group Brooklyn Funk Essentials during the 1990s under the stage name Shä-Key. In 1994, Shä-Key released her debut album, A Head Nädda’s Journey To Adidi Skizm (produced by Earl Blaize), mixing experimental hip-hop, soul and beatbox. In 2004, her one-woman play, Black Folks' Guide to Black Folks: Your Neighborhood Inside Out, about homophobia in the black community, opened Boston's Out on the Edge, an LGBT theatre festival. A review in the Boston Globe described it as a "virtual master class in just how witty and moving theater can be". In 2005, the song "Pick It Up" (performed by Alexkid and composed by Stefane Goldman, Alexis Mauri and Hanifah Walidah) was included in the compilation 24 Hours in Paris. In 2007, she joined the French electro group St-Lô. In 2009, she co-directed an incidental documentary titled U People during the filming of the music video for the song "Make a Move". The 'rockumentary' explores ethnicity, race, and gender in black queer women's communities. It won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Paris International Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival in 2009 and was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstand
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Music from the Aisle of Lesbos
Once Upon It Is
Adidi-The Unrocked Story
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Soultrotta Series Vol 1: THE BLUE STATE
21 Weeks: Week 3: Firefly
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The Soultrotta Series Vol 1: The Blue State
21 Weeks: Week 4: Mr. BlahBlah
21 Weeks: Week 2: Eleanor
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Woozyfly Promo
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Soundz Of Spirit
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Outside My Window
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adidi the unrocked story