Umar Bin Hassan
Musical Artist
1948 –
Who is Umar Bin Hassan?
Umar Bin Hassan is an African-American poet associated with The Last Poets. He sold his younger sister's record player to purchase a bus ticket to New York City, where he joined the Last Poets. In the mid-1990s, he recorded a solo album titled Be-Bop or be Dead on Bill Laswell's Axiom Records through Island/PolyGram Records
In 1994, Bin Hassan appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation CD, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool, appearing on a track titled "This is Madness" alongside Abiodun Oyewole and Pharaoh Sanders. The album was named "Album of the Year" by Time magazine.
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- Born
- 1948
Akron - Also known as
- Hassan, Umar Bin
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Lived in
- Akron
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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