Baba Brinkman began his rap career at nineteen, freestyling and writing songs in his hometown of Vancouver, Canada. He is a former tree-planter who worked in the Rocky Mountains of B.C. every summer for more than ten years, personally planting over one million trees. During his development as a rap artist he also completed both a B.A. with Honours and an M.A. in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature. His thesis drew parallels between the worlds of hip-hop music and literary poetry.
In the summer of 2004, Baba toured his hit theatre show, "The Rap Canterbury Tales" to seven cities around the world, including Prague, Montreal, Edinburgh and San Francisco. Since 2004 he has toured almost constantly, including two tours of Australia, several college campus tours of the USA, including Harvard, and frequent returns to the UK and Europe. "The Rap Canterbury Tales" has been nominated for and received multiple awards, and has also been recorded as an audio CD and published as an illustrated paperback by Vancouver's Talon Books, Canada's premier independent literary press.
In 2007, Baba founded the indie record label Lit Fuse Records, and released the debut album "Butterfly Man" from up-and-coming Vancouver singer/songwriter Aaron Nazrul. The lead single "When the Night" was recently featured on network television on 90210, and the video enjoyed Top Ten rotation on Much Music.
In 2008, Baba joined forces with UK BBC Slam Champion MC Dizraeli to form the hip-hop group Mud Sun, and they co-wrote and released two albums, including "The Rebel Cell", a hip-hop play that was one of the biggest critical successes of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning the "Spirit of the Fringe Award".
Baba's latest project, "The Rap Guide to Evolution" will be on tour in the UK and North America throughout 2009, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.
When he is not touring, Baba Brinkman resides in Vancouver.
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