Artist description Imagine Peace Musical Storyteller, aka Hajb the Mad Poet, aka Ali Ibn Musa

Music Style An original blend of blues, folk and musical mythology

Musical Influences Listening preferences have always been jazz and R&B. Playing influences have come primarily from folk singers and popular singer-songwriters.

Similar Artists His mom heard an Olu Dara CD and said she thought it was her son.

Artist History Hassaun works as a technical trade magazine journalist but he also tells "Free Black Ink" musical stories. He used to entertain his children, but they grew up. So he decided to learn how to tune his guitar and to create grownup stories, so he could go out into the world and strum for strangers. Hassaun and his guitar ventured into public for the first time to play at an open mic in New Hampshire in 1999. The following year, he told his first Free Black Ink musical story during Black History Month at a bookstore in California, and Free Black Ink traveled to Washington, D.C., that summer to participate in a 40-day peace vigil. Hassaun was the opening musical act at the 2001 and 2002 SEEN music festival and canned foods drive at People's Park in Berkeley, CA, and was a featured storyteller at the 2002 Storytelling for Peace Festival, in Los Angeles, CA. He is also developing an Imagine Peace Project at http://www.imaginepeace.org where the first step in creation is imagination.

Group Members Hassaun, his guitar and the birds in his backyard.

Instruments Voice, Acoustic Guitar

Albums Ancestral Rivers, Work On Love Songs, Free Black Ink, Black Ink White Paper Story and Good Grief?

Additional Info Please visit us at http://www.imaginepeace.org

Location Fremont, California - USA

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