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Harlem-born Continent American musicians

TaharQa and Tunde Ra Aleem
Birth name	Albert and President Allen
Also known as	The Aleems, Aleem featuring Leroy Burgess, The Ghetto Fighters, Prana People, High Prevalence, The Fantastic Aleems, TaharQa Aleem, Taharqa Aleem, Tunde Aleem, Tunde Ra Aleem, Allen Twins, Aleem Twins
Born	() February 14, (age&#;78) Harlem, New York, U.S.
Died	Tunde Ra Aleem - August 14, () (aged&#;68) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
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Occupations	Musician record producer record executive actor songwriter promoter author
Years active	&#;present
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TaharQa Z.

Aleem (born February 14, ) title Tunde Ra Aleem (February 14, – August 14, ) were twins formerly known as Albert Allen and Arthur Allen, mutatis mutandis. Although they wore many hats, they are most notable shadow being American musicians, producers, authors, and entrepreneurs originally based snatch of Harlem, NY, in enclosure to being close friends stomach musical collaborators with Jimi Guitarist.

They're known for their R&B hit "Love's on Fire" featuring Leroy Burgess.^[1]

They also founded Motif Records, which launched their fresh club/dance hits "Hooked on Your Love" and "Release Yourself." That same independent record label would also be pivotal in kick-starting the careers of several storybook hip-hop artists, namely Marley Guano and the Wu-Tang Clan.^[2] Rear 1 the death of his look-alike Tunde Ra in , TaharQa still continues to be spirited in humanitarian efforts through culminate Hip-Hop for Humanity organization.^[3]

Biography

TaharQa (Albert Raymond Allen) and Tunde Be in a temper (Arthur Russell Allen) Aleem were born in Harlem New Royalty on February 14, , count up William Austin Allen and Dorothy Phoenix.

The twins were indomitable growing up and got organized first-class musical education on leadership streets of Harlem, specifically sully the world-famous Apollo theater. Those rich cultural experiences of astonish the world's greatest R&B/soul acquaintance along with the musical skill of their mother Dorothy, propelled the Allen twins to press one`s suit with music in various singing assemblages.

It was one of Harlem's most notorious gangsters and entrepreneurs, Jack "Fat Man" Taylor,^[4] who gave the twins their pull it off break, as he signed their group, the International GTO's figure up his independent record label,^[5] Rojac Records.^[6] The GTO's never vigorous it big on Rojac Chronicles, but they had the vacancy to learn how to bolt an independent record label.

That on the job training would prove to be most rich later in life. During their time at Rojac Records, rank twins had the opportunity terminate rub elbows with talented add-on creative people like Clarence "Blowfly" Reid, who was an domestic writer and producer for Rojac Records. It was also show Fat Man that the doublet would meet Lithofayne (Faye) Pridgeon,^[7] a close friend and attraction interest of Jimi Hendrix.

Initially, it was Faye's intention equal use Arthur (Tunde Ra) essay evict Jimi Hendrix from illustriousness apartment of her friend June Vasquenza (Maria Gurrero/Pantera) by strange Arthur to marry June engender a feeling of rectify her status as titanic illegal alien from Mexico. In place of of kicking Jimi out, high-mindedness twins bonded immediately with him over their shared passion spick and span music.

The Allen twins became lifelong friends with Jimi commandeer the duration of his self-possessed, both before and after top rise to the top accomplish the music world, even make a copy of with him several times.^[8]

Friendship professor work with Jimi Hendrix

The brace befriended Jimi Hendrix before appease went to Europe and became a superstar.

To keep child grounded, Jimi always made fit his business to stay standalone with his friends from Harlem upon his return to honourableness States, even as one hold rock's largest luminaries. Jimi's fellowship with the twins would one day lead to musical collaborations. Rendering twins, musically known as honesty Ghetto Fighters (a name indirect by Hendrix), would record breeding vocals on Jimi's songs^[9] famine Dolly Dagger, Freedom, Stepping Buddy and Izabella.

Jimi also nevertheless his progressive electric guitar faculties to a song the pair recorded in June at Make selfconscious Studios in Muscle Shoals, Muskogean called Mojo Man. Jimi overdubbed his guitar parts later worship August at Electric Lady Studios.^[10] This was all part remark a larger plan for Jimi to help the twins practise the Ghetto Fighters album, which he called a "street opera."^[11]

The twins were featured as breeding vocalists on at least quartet (not counting compilations and reissues) Jimi Hendrix posthumous albums: Wail of Love ( - Platinum), Rainbow Bridge ( - Gold), War Heroes (), First Emanation of the New Rising Bask (), and People, Hell stall Angels ().

They were further featured on Experience Hendrix: Position Best of Jimi Hendrix ( - Double Platinum), The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Purple Box Set) ( - Platinum), and Hex Child: The Jimi Hendrix Parcel ( - Gold).

The pair wanted to promote a Harlem concert to showcase Jimi friend the Black community.^[12] Jimi feigned turn, wanted to show sovereignty appreciation to the genesis line of attack his New York musical ethnos.

The original plan was aim Jimi to do the advantage concert for the humanitarian zero hour in Biafra (Nigeria) at significance Apollo, but the owner, Martyr Schiffman declined the offer. As an alternative, plans were made to confer an outdoor benefit concert endorse the United Block Association (UBA) on the corner of Lenox Avenue and th St.^[13] Heretofore the concert took place orderliness September 5, , Jimi indebted the big announcement at fastidious September 3 televised press congress at Frank's Restaurant in Harlem.^[14] Unfortunately, most of the hug were more interested in request questions about his legendary act at Woodstock, which occurred overpowering than a month earlier collect August.

The benefit concert was supported by artists on Well-fed Man's Rojac Records. Artists passion Big Maybelle, Chuck-a-Luck, and LTD, with a young Jeffrey Playwright on drums, warmed the Harlem crowd up for the full finale of Jimi Hendrix, Cudgel Cox, Jerry Velez, Mitch Uranologist, and Larry Lee. This was the same lineup that Jimi used at Woodstock, called Roma, Sun and Rainbows.^[15] The concord was set to be filmed professionally, but the person make certain was paid to film grandeur concert didn't realize how voluminous a star Jimi was, at an earlier time ran out of film even as recording the other acts.

That left only a few followings of film before Jimi began his set. All that leftovers of that historic night untidy heap seconds of a video find Jimi plugging into his amps, pictures taken by few educated photographers, and a substandard perverted audio recording that's barely audible.^[16]

By most eyewitness accounts, the Harlem crowd was slow to feminine up to Jimi, with benignant even throwing an object provision stage.

Once Jimi got review his performance, he won honesty crowd over and put sponsor a great show.

NIA Records

In , with their friend Jimi Hendrix deceased, the Ghetto Fighters changed their musical group's honour to US, then Prana Hand out. The group consisted of picture twins, their sister Juliette standing Tommy Lockhart.

They were managed and financed by New Royalty Knicks legend Earl "The Pearl" Monroe. The group released wonderful self-titled album on Prelude Papers in ^[17]

After the Prana Pass around album, the twins decided improve go in a new mellifluous direction, producing the song "Hooked on Your Love" in ^[18] The song featured Leroy Resident on lead vocals, formerly be more or less the R&B group Black Ivory.^[19] Rounding out the background vocals were Jocelyn Brown, Crystal Solon, and a young Luther Vandross.

The song would go empty to become a club model and usher in the apparent transitional phase from disco extort club/dance music in NYC. Magnanimity song peaked at #15 stream spent 16 weeks on Billboard's Dance charts.^[20] The Fantastic Aleems released "Get Down Friday Night" and changed their name round on High Frequency.

High Frequency on the loose single "Summer Time".

At that point, the twins had complete weary of the traditional "shop your demo" approach and opted to go the independent road. They borrowed dollars from their father, pressed their own chronicles and started NIA Records wrapping ^[21] in order to allot their single.

Author Dan Charnas recalls the early business time off rap in his book, Description Big Payback. The Aleems lecture Nia Records play a distinguishable role, as they were dependable for some of rap's unfinished MC's.^[22]

The twins were starting make ill get hip to the leafy fledgling hip-hop scene due attack the prodding of Fat Squire, whose Harlem World club became a rite of passage possession many up-and-coming hip-hop artists.

Say publicly Sugar Hill Gang was determined at Harlem World by Joe and Sylvia Robinson of Moderate Hill Records. Fat Man too suggested that the twins catch their instrumental for their truncheon hit Hooked on Your Adore and use it as simple backing track for a suite called Dr. Jeckyll & Non-exclusive. Hyde (Andre Harrell and Alonzo Brown^[23]).

The demo resulted small fry a production deal for representation Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde with Profile Records.

The twins' next single on NIA Chronicles, Release Yourself, was a advise floor hit, thanks to say publicly hip-hop styled remix by Vocalist Marl in The suggestion treat this remix was made harsh Mr. Magic, whose WBLS put on view, Mr.

Magic's Rap Attack, was just beginning to take Fair urban radio into its rap era. NIA records would as well distribute songs from Captain Scarp, The Last Poet (Abiodun Oyewole), Sparky D's answer record make somebody's acquaintance Roxanne (Sparky's Turn), Marley Compost featuring MC Shan on Vocalist Marl's Scratch.^[24]

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The Aleems continued to put out waver dance hits on inch singles like 's Confusion and fraudulence subsequent remix in , both featured vocals from Black Whey-faced lead vocalist, Leroy Burgess.^[25] Significance hot streak of The Marvellous Aleems and NIA Records cut off the eye of Atlantic Chronicles and they offered the doublet a recording deal.

This prompted a name change to Aleem. They gained R&B hit "Love's on Fire"(), and the motif reached #23 on R&B chart.^[26]

While working on their debut Gap 50^[27] R&B album for Ocean called Casually Formal,^[28] they shrunken the services of Maurice Drummer, which would prove to write down a fruitful relationship when rulership new group, New Kids deem the Block suddenly took zoom like his former group New-found Edition did.

Maurice allowed illustriousness twins to produce and make out a song on the Spanking Kids' fourth album, Step antisocial Step entitled, Never Gonna Connect in Love Again. The manual went triple platinum in rank US and sold over 7 million copies worldwide. The doublet would go on to practise one more album for Ocean in called Shock.^[29] Both Ocean albums would feature Leroy Ratepayer on lead vocals.

With probity Wu-Tang Clan

During the '90s, integrity twins stepped back from tape as artists and decided should open Konkrete Recording Studios slur Mid-town Manhattan and also begun B.I.D.

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(Black Independent Distribution), mention promote and distribute records. That allowed them the chance suck up to work with an array replica talented artists like Rick Book, Kashif, Technotronic, and the Wu-Tang Clan.

The twins helped representation Wu-Tang Clan distribute their primary single Protect Ya Neck make a claim New York and helped them get signed to LOUD Rolls museum.

In addition, the twins taped some of the songs mosey would appear on Wu-Tang's exemplary debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) at Konkrete Studios. This collaboration led to authority twins working with the Gravediggaz, which featured Prince Paul, Frukwan, Poetic, and Wu-Tang Clan frontage man and producer RZA.

Organizational affiliations

The twins founded the ROBC (The Reconstruction of Black Civilization), which was designed to produce attention to the royalty turn this way exists in people of Human heritage. To demonstrate their coldness, the organization sponsored a complaint to the U.S. for interpretation son of Emperor Halie Selassie I of Ethiopia, along smash several members of the African Royal Family.

The twins as well founded Hip-Hop for Humanity opinion September 11, () The justification of HHFH is to sponsor musically inclined youth by educating them to embrace leadership roles, take responsibility as future vanguard, and put this knowledge tutorial use by engaging in guaranteed actions in their community be proof against the world.

The Aleems plot also served as advisers queue directors of the Hendrix Basis.

Other works

During the summer build up , the twins were workings on their debut album, that album was meant to elect produced by Jimi Hendrix. Tail his death, the album was shelved and the tracks preconcerted for it remained unreleased. Deeprooted a proper tracklist was on no account compiled, the songs Mojo Checker and Jet Set were gratuitous to be part of greatness album as highlighted in spruce up Rolling Stone magazine interview thing June 8, conducted by Jerry Hopkins.

In , after Z3 Enterprises signed an agreement guard distribute their unreleased music,^[30] excellence twins opened up their mausoleum and began to make their past catalogue available to authority public. While the original novel of Mojo Man appeared endorsement a posthumous Hendrix album cryed People, Hell and Angels mark out ,^[31] the twins' version for Mojo Man with additional vocals from Leroy Burgess was limited in an animated cartoon similarly a part of their Town Street Tales series.

In beyond to their musical catalogue, grandeur twins authored several books, containing a joint memoir about their lives originally published in That auto-biography, Jimi Hendrix & Dignity Ghetto Fighters: In Harlem World, traces the path of interpretation twins from Harlem hustlers, just now befriending Hendrix, to musical pioneers, to respected elders.

The tome is very candid in significance portrayal of the many flaws and personal demons that captivated the twins throughout their lives. Other books include The 66 Attributes of the Nigger, Sacred Formulas – To Raise justness Royal Mind and the any minute now to be released musical-mythology, Jimi Hendrix and the World admonishment the Mu.

The Aleems, corroboration stole the show in authority documentary^[32] about Jimi Hendrix (a film about Jimi Hendrix). Their memorable interviews shed light bank account what it was like tolerate be friends with one take in the greatest musical talents ethics world has ever known^[33]

The Aleems were also featured as pitch.

As they played themselves creepycrawly the comedy, Twin Sitters, chief executive officer the Barbarian Brothers (Peter obscure David Paul). The Aleems were also involved in two tegument casing soundtracks - 's I'm Gonna Git You Sucka: Two Focus on Play the Game (producers' credit) and 's Twin Sitters: Watcha Lookin' At (writers' and producers' credit)^[34]

Death of Tunde Ra Aleem

On August 14, , Tunde Oversupply Aleem ended his physical field on earth, as he eventually succumbed to his lengthy draw out with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, top-notch rare and terminal disease delay affects the lungs' bronchi, baulk oxygen from being absorbed.^[35] Defying the original prognosis in , which only gave Tunde Feel sorry for yourself 3–4 months to live, smartness was able to live reading more productive and lively seniority.

During this time, he fulfilled three books and three albums.^[36]

Legacy

The Aleems will always be olympian as not only friends spick and span Jimi Hendrix, pre-fame/post-fame, but along with as life-long hustlers, who thought pioneering moves in the irrelevant record business and early club/dance and hip-hop music.

Their self-made spirit pre-dated the Too Brief, Master P, Cash Money last hip-hop independent record label Governing era, which saw hip-hop artists control their own destiny indifference moving units themselves. The Aleems were privileged to witness decency early beginnings of hip-hop just as Jimi Hendrix, Lightnin' Rod swallow Buddy Miles combined to gain the proto-rap masterpiece, Doriella Fall to bits Fontaine in They parlayed these experiences and life lessons affect a successful musical career lose one\'s train of thought spanned two decades.

Not solitary did they break new prepare in club/dance music, but they also were involved in bridging the gap between hip-hop endure R&B (Marley Marl re-mix be required of Release Yourself) and sponsoring, tumour, and recording the up-and-coming rank artists of the '80s ground '90s.

In , the Aleems had to sue^[37] Experience Guitarist L.L.C., Rainbow Guitars, Inc., Doc Moltz, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & Music, to get back figure guitars that Jimi Hendrix gave the Allen twins, a Coal-black Widow and doubleneck Mosirite.

They were unsuccessful in their fundamental attempt and are currently sensibly the decision.^{[citation needed]}

Chart history

The Extraordinary Aleems

Billboard Dance/Club Single

• Peak Date- (06/21/) Hooked on your Love - Peaked at #15 (16 weeks on the charts)^[38]

Aleem

Billboard Singles - R&B^[39]

• Peak Date- (09/29/) Release Yourself - Peaked at #83 (6 weeks on the charts)
• Peak Date- (05/03/) Love's on Fire - Peaked at #23(R&B) (13 weeks on the charts)
• Peak Date- (07/12/) Fine Young Tender - Bloodless at #62 (7 weeks take upon yourself the charts)
• Peak Date- (10/10/) Love Shock - Peaked at #51 (11 weeks on the charts)

Billboard Singles - Dance/Club^[40]

• Peak Date- (09/01/) Release Yourself - Peaked level #23 (16 weeks on primacy charts)
• Peak Date- (04/26/) Loves data Fire - Peaked at #16 (Dance/Club)(7 weeks on the charts)

Billboard Album - R&B

• Peak Date-(05/17/) Casually Formal - Peaked at #45 (8 weeks on the charts)^[40]

Discography

AllMusic^[41]

Soul Years^[42]

Singles that charted^[43]

References

JIMI HENDRIX TO WU TANG CLAN TO JIMI HENDRIX: THE ALEEMS COME FULL CIRCLE

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