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For Immediate Release: Baritone MC “Chali 2na” from legendary conscious hip-hop group Jurassic 5, performs inaugural gig at Adelaide Hall. MRG Concerts presents CHALI 2NA w/ Live band “The House of Vibe” with Guests Kayo Date: Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 Doors at:8:00 pm Adelaide Hall, 250 Adelaide St W. Tickets are $25 and available at Rotate This, Soundscapes Online tickets via NorthernTickets.com: http://northerntickets.com/events/chali-2-na/ 19+ Event Chali 2na performs at the brand new Adelaide Hall as the first hip-hop act to hit the stage since opening in June. Watch Chali 2na “Comin Thru” http://youtu.be/MBfjeFr67Ls?t=41s Chali 2na http://chali2na.com/ MC. Musician. Actor. Painter. Renaissance Man. Chali 2na has done it all. From his days growing up on the hardscrabble streets of Chicagos south side, to his subsequent explosion onto Los Angeles burgeoning hip-hop scene, to his tenure as MC for seminal hip-hop group Jurassic 5, Chali epitomizes the portrait of a 21st century artist. To be sure, with his unmistakable, beloved baritone, Chali has firmly established himself as one of the most distinctive, charismatic personalities not just in hip-hop, but music in general. Only a select few can say theyve rocked microphones in front of thousands at a sold-out arena in Tokyo with Jurassic 5, spit rhymes at Lollapalooza, painted professional caliber oil color paintings in their California home and lent their distinctive bass-heavy voice, to such mega-brands as Coca Cola and Sega Dreamcast. Now, buoyed by the wide spectrum of socio-cultural and geographical influences that have shaped himhip-hops Renaissance man is poised to release his first solo album Fish Outta Water on Decon Records in the spring of 2009. Indeed, this deeply personal body of work reveals a side of the long time Jurassic 5 and Ozomatli front man that his fans have never seen, a story from start to finish of his life, loves, triumphs and let downs, weaving in a powerful selection of beats from the likes of Scott Storch and Jake 1 and memorable appearances from Damian Jr. Gong and Stephen Marley, Anthony Hamilton, Beanie Man and others. I wanted this album to expose who I am as an artist. The majority of people know me from Jurassic 5 and Ozo, but I felt like nobody knew me as an artist, Chali says. I want to show you all facets of who I am. Man. Husband. Brother. Father. Son. Painter. Indeed, Chalis diverse tastesfrom the blues he was raised on to the political gangsta rap he loved to the graffiti art he sprayed as a teenagerflow from this album, like the oil colors Chali uses for his paintings. Theres the Fury-produced,Righteous Way, an interpolation of Curtis Mayfields Nigga, where Chali tells the story of his life through the eyes of his father, his 17 year old son and himself. Or the Scott Storch driven Love Is Gonna Get You, where Chali offers up his own take on the fabled KRS-One song that inspired this 21st century version. KRS was talking about how love was going to engulf his brother. This song talks about how love makes you do the strangest things, how it infects your heart and changes you forever, he said. Of course, no body of work involving Chali 2na would be complete without his trademark, articulate, spitfire rhymes, the sort of fearsome battle raps which first caught the ear of so many back when he honed his skills in Los Angeles storied underground hip-hop scene of the early nineties. On Dont Stop, featuring the ever soulful Anthony Hamilton, Chali beckons everyonefrom revolutionaries to thugs to dime piecesto leave their troubles at home over a melodic, flute-infused hook. Getting sick of the bickering from my peers and such. Bringing lyrics to keep your ears in touch, he rhymes, daring anyone to test his mettle while playfully requesting that you too take your body to the dance floor in the same breath. Indeed, Chalis debut features a seemingly endless litany of groundbreaking tracks, which touch on topics the veteran musician has never bared to his listeners before. Whether its the trauma he experienced from the shooting death of a childhood friend to the twists and turns of his own family lineage, to the resistance to injustice that has always been imbued in Chalis music, Fish Outta Water, is quite simply, a lifes worth of songs in the making. Says Chali: I want to free peoples asses and let their minds follow. To not be preachy, but to make them aware of what Im about. I want to enlighten, but I aint trying to be a bumper sticker either. No doubt, theres still plenty of fire in Chalis lyrical arsenal. His days of training at the legendary Los Angeles hotspot, the Good Life Caf, have taught him well. Only now, hes fused the bass-heavy bravado with his own lifes story, and in doing so, creates an album of work thats not only superb, its important. Kayo http://kayomusic.com He may have been born and raised on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, but Kayo Guevarra (n Filbert Salton) does not operate on island time. Now based in Halifax, the ambitious young rapper has big plans for himself, both professionally and personally. Signed to Classified’s Half Life Records imprint, the younger rapper’s upcoming full-length album, including the EMI-released current single “1 Night,” a club track about the beauty of women “and the insecurities they live with [that] ultimately destroy them. Look for Kayo’s upcoming album to include collaborations with Canadian rappers Quake and Shad, as well as Naledge from Chicago duo Kidz in the Hall. St. Lucian R&B singer Shayne Ross also appears on the record, providing the hook to a track called “Changes.”
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