Jalal
Spoken word, Composer
1944 –
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Who is Jalal?
Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin is one of the founding members of The Last Poets, a group of poets and musicians that evolved in the 1960s out of the Harlem Writers Workshop in New York City.
He was born in Fort Green in Brooklyn, New York, USA. In his earlier career he used the names Lightnin' Rod and Alafia Pudim. He is often dubbed "The Grandfather of Rap".
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