Hanifah Walidah is a musician, playwright, and social arts activist. Her twenty-year career has taken an ethnographic approach to the arts to create film, music, and stage works that help foster social change. The nationally noted Black Folks’ Guide to Black Folks, a one-woman show and feature-length film imagining and stimulating conversations among queer and straight communities of color in the contemporary U.S.

Hanifah Walidah was born on October 16 in New York, New York. Hanifah Walidah is an “artist, friend, woman, black, lesbian, shit-talker. In that order.” She cultivates societal perceptions by her music, playwriting, education, and artistic activism. Hanifah Walidah first arrived in 1999 in Oakland, California, where she would launch her play called Straight Black Folks Guide to Gay Black Folks. She does not currently live in Oakland; she moved to Atlanta. Her rich twenty-year career has taken an ethnographic approach to the arts and social change. In the early ’90s, she spearheaded and laid the foundation for the hip-hop poetic revolution in New York with collectives The Vibe Khamelons and The Boom Poetic. She was signed to Imago Records in 1993 to release her debut album, A Head Nädda’s Journey to Adidi-Skizm, which produced the infectious single “Soulsville.” Appearing as Shä-Key with the 1994 hip-hop release, A Head Nädda’s Journey to Adidi-Skizm, she has since, along with claiming the name Hanifah Walidah, developed a vocal and performance style that is rooted in the midnight of blues, the backrooms of house, the silent moments of soul, and the unshaken will of hip hop.

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