Aki Nawaz (born Haq Nawaz Quereishi) a.k.a. Aki-Stani, Righteous Preacher and Propa-Gandhi is a British singer and musician, part of the band Fun-Da-Mental. He is best known for his controversial lyrics relating to immorality in the west. Nawaz grew up in Bradford, England, his parents were Pakistani immigrants who arrived in England in 1964.
In the 1980s, using his proper name Haq Qureshi, he played drums with the rock band Southern Death Cult, a forerunner to The Cult, featuring Ian Astbury on vocals. When Astbury moved on to found his own band, the remaining musicians stayed together for a time as Getting the Fear, recruiting new singer Bee Hampshire from Futon, but eventually broke up. In 1986, Nawaz moved to London set up a management company and signed artists to major record labels. Two years later, he formed Nation Records as a label primarily focused on creating fusions between different musical forms from all over the world for a more youth-oriented audience.[1] Changing musical genres, Nawaz went on to found the Islamic rap group Fun-Da-Mental in 1991 which recorded for Nation Records. He was the group's leader and most visible rapper.
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Aki: " Muslims in the west experienced a sea change in our emotional identity. I wanted to go in the opposite direction that Rushdie had taken us and that's why I formed Fun DA Mental."
http://www.fun-da-mental.co.uk/
Follow the gypsy and/or philosophical bent in your soul.
"If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable"
Interesting message/question.
You can only be young once, but you can be immature for life.
Why is he rocking the placing?
"There shall be love!"
Follow the gypsy and/or philosophical bent in your soul.