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Yasiin Bey was born Dante Terrell Smith on December 11, 1973, in Brooklyn, New York City, [8] the son of Sheron Smith and Abdulrahman Smith. [9] The eldest of 12 children and step-children, he was raised by his mother in Brooklyn, while his father lived in New Jersey.
Mos Def (now known as Yasiin Bey) as Ford Prefect, the "semi-cousin" of Zaphod; Zooey Deschanel as Trillian, an Earth woman; Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent, a man who gets roped into Zaphod's quest; Bill Nighy as Slartibartfast, a planet builder; Anna Chancellor as Questular, the vice-president of the Galaxy
Begin Again is a 2013 American musical comedy-drama film written and directed by John Carney, and starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo.Knightley plays a singer-songwriter who is discovered by a struggling record label executive (Ruffalo) and collaborates with him to produce an album recorded in public locations all over New York City.
Yasiin Bey, the musician formerly known as Mos Def, will portray jazz piano legend Thelonious Monk in the biopic “Thelonious,” which is slated to begin production in the summer of 2022. The ...
The discography of Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, an American rapper, consists of four solo albums, two compilation albums, and several singles.Bey began his hip hop career in 1994 in the underground rap group UTD (Urban Thermo Dynamics) alongside his sibling group members DCQ and Ces, after which he pursued a solo career. [1]
Yasiin Bey was announced as the star of a Thelonious Monk biopic on Wednesday, but as of Thursday, he appeared to be backing out the project in the wake of complaints coming from the late jazz ...
Black Star is an American hip hop duo formed in 1996, from Brooklyn, New York City.The duo is composed of rappers Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) and Talib Kweli.The duo is named after The Black Star Line, a shipping company founded by Marcus Garvey. [2]
Cadillac Records is a 2008 American biographical drama film written and directed by Darnell Martin.The film explores the musical era from the early 1940s to the late 1960s, chronicling the life of the influential Chicago-based record-company executive Leonard Chess, and a few of the musicians who recorded for Chess Records.