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 ten years, personally planting over one million trees.
During his development as an MC 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 rap 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, a college campus tour of the USA that included Harvard, and frequent returns to the UK and Europe. His most recent project, Mud Sun, is an experimental hip-hop collaboration with the current UK Slam Champion, MC Dizraeli.
"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. When he is not touring, Baba Brinkman resides in Vancouver.
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