The Urban Culture Week is aimed at helping the younger generation to learn, grow and further develop their talent. Local and overseas based artists will be conducting workshops and talks free of charge.
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| B-boy Frankie (Source: redbull.com) |
B-boy Frankie:
B-boy Frankie will be making his way to our little Island all the way from the big apple (New York). After a few years in the process of mastering his craft he made his name in the B-boy scene and has been in touch with a few well known B-boys like Rocism, B-ready and Jiggz from the Supreme Beings Crew & K-won of Swift Kids, who all helped him develop his skill as a B-boy.
Big Hass:
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| Big Hass in Bahrain (Jan 2015) |
Hassane Dennaoui AKA Big Hass has played a huge role in bringing Arabic hip-hop closer to us and he's the reason that Arabic hip-hop still exists with us in the Arab world today. He runs and hosts an online radio blog called 'Re-Volt'. He is also the founder of Saudi's first & only hip-hop radio show called 'Laish Hip Hop?'. He has a huge following as a result of his accomplishments, he has about 5,000 followers on his Twitter and his blog receives audiences ranging from 8,000 to 12,000 per issue. He's also shown a lot of support to malja, he's attended the opening and he's talked about it on his radio show now he's coming back to give a talk about Re-Volt during the culture week.
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| Tyrone IBE workshop Urban Culture Week (April 2014) |
Tyrone IBE:
Tyrone Van Der Meer AKA DJ Mr Tee is part of the Notorious IBE which is well known for being one of the biggest hip-hop and urban culture festivals in the world. This isn't Tyrone's first visit to the Island, the hip-hop DJ has been on the island a couple of times before, DJ-ing the Red Bull BC One Bahrain Cypher events over the years. He even gave a workshop in last year's Urban Culture Week where he shared his knowledge about beat making and how to sync two tracks. He also briefed about the history of DJ-ing and how DJ-ing will be different in 30-40 years time.
Huvil:
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| Huvil (Click to enlarge) |
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| Sarah Nabil (Click to enlarge) |
Sarah Nabil is a young Bahraini R&B/Hip-hop composer and producer, She is the first female hip-hop producer and composer in the country and region. She is a self taught pianist; you can find her piano covers on her YouTube channel, At the age of 17 (now aged 22) Sarah got into music production and fell in love with it; She had met DJ Outlaw around that time and joined Outlaw Productions as a composer/producer under DJ Outlaw. Since then Outlaw has helped her develop her skills as a producer/composer and Sarah has already worked with many R&B and hip-hop artists in the region.
DJ Outlaw:
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| DJ Outlaw (Click to enlarge) |
Mohammed Hasan AKA DJ Outlaw is one of the most popular DJs on the island and region. He's the founder of Outlaw Productions which have signed a few talented artists across the region. Outlaw got in to hip-hop at a very young age. His musical career started back in 1997 when he started producing and mixing tracks of his own but not until 1999 he started Outlaw productions at home. And now he has his own professional studio with high quality state of the art equipment where he records tracks with his artists. He started scouting for talents in Bahrain and the GCC. He's been a good influence on hip-hop in the country. He's also held a couple of workshops at last year's Urban Culture Week which attracted a lot of participants.
Interested in participating in their workshops? Registration is open! go to urbancultureweek.com and register now for free! Stay tuned for more blog posts about the Urban Culture Week soon!
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