Dave Halili

Printmaking, Visual Artist

1968 –

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Who is Dave Halili?

Dave Halili is a contemporary American fine arts illustrator, graffiti writer and graphic designer of album cover paintings, posters, logos, T-shirts along with other forms of representational merchandise. His best-known works are the album covers for Body Count, Ice-T, The Skeletones and Moon Ska Records compilation California Ska-Quake. An array of collaborations in the Hollywood entertainment industry & Indie music scene have garnered him 1 Diamond record plaque, 3 Platinum awards, 3 Gold records and 2 Gold Europe plaques certified and registered by the RIAA.

Halili's artwork on the cover of Body Count became to symbolize the band's song Cop Killer that was widely criticized by the authorities, raising questions about the boundaries between artistic freedom and censorship. This controversy, together with an executive clash over Halili's proposed montage for the jacket of Home Invasion, forced Ice-T to leave Warner Bros. Records. On March 23, 1993 Ice-T released the album with Halili's original illustration produced by his own record label Rhyme $yndicate Records.

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Born
Apr 30, 1968
Fullerton
Lived in
  • Fullerton
  • Orange County

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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