Singer and songwriter since 1997 with Positive Radical Sound
(PRS), Khalifa believes music can be more than making tunes and performing.
Releasing four albums with PRS, two with Sly & Robbie as well as numerous
songs featuring Mad Professor, Tiken Jah Fakoly, and others, Khalifa is also
involved in teaching music in detention centers in France, in refugee camps in
Palestine and in youth clubs in Oran, Algeria.
“Music should help educate while exploring the depths of the
Soul”.
For nearly 17 years Khalifa keeps producing music and
writing songs, inspired by his travels and by everyday life, and backed by a
powerful rhythm.
For his album, 'Hard Times for Dreamers', Khalifa rounded up
an international crew, bringing in Mad Professor, Winston Mac Anuff, Nambo
Robinson, Sly and Robbie and Steven Marley Wright (I Jah Man) to put together
12 powerful, tight songs.
Each tune has its subtlety; the punchy brass section gives
way to the strings, and a 50s guitar trill weaves in and out of a raw
afro-beat. Robbie Shakespeare's bassline smoothly glides us from Lagos to the
Kingston suburbs, while Khalif's masterful voice takes the lead.
Hard times for dreamers was the result of trips to Oran,
Ramallah, Kingston, Paris and London.
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