As a child Babah Fly's soul was searching for "the music". His great-grandfather sang opera in Sicily, his grandfather sang in Jazz clubs in New York and his mother played piano for the church. Music was in his blood.
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Babah Fly grew up listening to music, searching through his mom and dad's old school soul, funk, folk and jazz records. At eight years old a peticilar song on the radio mesmerized him. A sort of trance took over the young Babah Fly as he uttered the words "that's the music!” The song was "Planet Rock" by Africa Bambatta. "Planet Rock" was the gateway into hip-hop for Babah Fly, he became a skilled B-boy(breakdancer), DJ and MC. Growing up in Little Rock was rough; Babah was surrounded by lots of gangs, poverty and violence, but, The golden age of Hip-hop kept Babah Fly moving in a positive direction. Besides the musical influences of artist like Rakim, Krs One, Run DMC and the Native tongues, Babah was heavily influenced by the teachings of the Zulu Nation, Islam and eastern martial arts. After a night that Babah and some friends narrowly escaped being shot and arrested, Babah decided to move from Little Rock to stay with his brother in Boulder, Colorado to go to school and work on music.
Babah Fly brought his beat machine to Boulder and made beats and rhymes in his brother's apartment. One night his brother went out with some of his friends and got beaten up so severely that he was in a coma for a month. Babah had full confidence in his brother’s recovery, his faith was strong and his music was the source of strength. This was a sign to Babah that his music must spread. Babah met some Denver hip-hop heads and crews that helped put him on like RaahFounashunn, Quibian Salazaar-Moreno, Jher, RTDK and Future Reference. Babah began performing his music at places like The Mercury Cafe and Revolutiones; places where hip-hop culture was thriving in Denver.
In 1998 Babah Fly moved to Denver, Colorado and began college at Metro-State and UCD. He played Jazz music under the direction of Jazz trumpeter Ron Miles at Metro and studied music engineering and production at UCD. Babah Fly met another hip-hop producer named Kwasi Connors(son of jazz legend Norman Connors), and formed a group/movement called Bugaboo. The two released an album called "Parallel to the Universe" that got fame in an Amsterdam hip-hop magazine, winning a contest tittle as "The Best Album to Smoke Weed to".
A year passed, Kwasi moved to Los Angeles and Babah got a job at a local graffitti supply store as a DJ. The store was called Art-n-Sol and Babah held weekly MC ciphers in the shop. He met a few other kindred spirited MCs(Mike Wird, Malik, Daymeon) and produced another album called Universal Devices. The Bugaboo crew had expanded to four MCs and a DJ(DJ SD). Their high energy performances served as an opening act for Established hip-hop acts like Black Sheep, Saul Williams, AceyAlone, Abstract Rude and Sage Francis.
After the Bugaboo crew went their separate was Babah Fly hooked up with another MC(Url Gray-V) and DJ(Selector Sam) and they formed a group called "Tha Fly". Tha Fly released a mixtape and smashed shows around the Midwest region opening up for Krs One, Slick Rick, Souls of Mischief, Kool Keith, Zion I and Crown City Rockers.
Recently, Babah Fly has re-connected with his brother from another mother Mike Wird. These two high energy MCs Perform under the name BabahWird, they have toured the West Coast together and rocked massive crowds at The Dragon Boat Festival for the past three years. Babah Fly and Mike Wird also have a band consisting of them on the mic, drummer Brad Lee Stevens, Bassist Lavell Flamon and a Flutist/Pianist/Guitar Player/DJ named Felix A.K.A. DJ Fast4ward. The Band together with the two MCs form the super group called "The Denver Avengerz".
Along with working on a BabahWird album and a Denver Avengerz album, Babah Fly has now finished his solo album called "Electro SUFI". The name Electro-Sufi represents Babah Fly's take on hip-hop being a timeless culture that has existed since the ancient times of Kemet. Sufism descended from the ancient kemetic sciences. The culture of the Sufi's is relative to the culture of Africa Bambatta's Zulu Nation planet rock hip-hop. From the desire to levitate in the dance; b-boy spins to whirling dervishes, to the desire to enlighten through song and poetry; Rumi to Rakim, Hafiz to Q-tip, Electro-Sufi is what Babah Fly is and what he is about.
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