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Imani Hekima’s work draws from a wealth of musical and life experiences. The warm soulful sound of his music – along with his engaging vocals, are a perfect foil for some often hard hitting, articulate lyrical content.
An accomplished solo pianist, he pursues a parallel career performing in many genres, from jazz, pop & soul to Bollywood. Imani has put out a couple of singles, ‘Shame’ and ‘The Robots’ Rebellion’, with its timely message of social revolution.
His third single release, ‘Just Beneath The Skin’, is available as a free download at: www.imanihekima.bandcamp.com
New material is in the pipeline for 2012 so stay tuned!
As keyboardist/main songwriter with Bradford ska/reggae outfit Spectre in the 1980′s, the band earned support slots to Lee Scratch Perry, Augustus Pablo, Aswad, Junior Delgado, Eek a Mouse & The Redskins.
An accomplished pianist, he also has a BA honours degree in music and taught piano privately throughout the 1990s.
He began gigging as a solo artist in the early nineties, briefly as part of all sibling trio Real Eyez, who supported Dennis Rollins. Onstage, he is backed by Stuart Mitchell on drums, Tobie Carpenter on guitars and Philippe Clegg on bass. As if to underline his versatility, Imani also gigs as a solo pianist performing Hindi film songs as instrumentals at Asian weddings and concerts (including supports slot to acclaimed Asian artist Raghav and Islamic singer/composer Idris Phillips in 2009).
To learn more about Imani to to his website at www.imanihekima.co.uk/Meanwhile, here is one of Imani’s songs, “The Robots’ Rebellion” (video created by Ian Geddes) with reference to John Carpenter’s film, They Live. Imani writes about the conditions we are collectively experiencing in this song and the feeling that so many seem to be having around the planet.
For more songs, go to Imani’s MySpace page at www.myspace.com/imanihekima
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