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Chirag Menon
Chirag (a.k.a Chee Malabar) is a recording/performing artist, writer, and educator. He has recorded and released 5 albums with hip hop groups Himalayan Project and Oblique Brown. He continues to perform his music and speak at universities and colleges around issues of American identity and race. He was featured in the landmark South Asian-American documentary 'Brown Like Dat', and his lyrics and work are the subject of a forthcoming book 'Hip Hop Desi's and a Global Race Consciousness' by Northwestern University professor Nitasha Sharma. Chirag is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University (B.A. Political Science) and holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from Brooklyn College. He currently serves as a Teaching Artist with Street Poets Inc. and is working on a new album along with a debut novel. For more information about his music and work, visit www.himalayanproject.com |