kalara + Musician in Chicago, IL

SEEKING

ABOUT

Kala Ra, also known as Da Real brings balance to music by breaking rules and boundaries as he takes listeners to a higher realm of truth. “I rap about reality”, Kala Ra says. [his first mix tape's namesake.] “I just tell a story about everyday life. It’s not always glamorous. It’s not always happy. You always hear artists glamorize drug dealing and killing. I show you the other side of that life, the real side that has pain and consequences that they don’t want you to know about.” Perhaps his name, which means the word of Ra (God) in Ki- Swahili, describes his style best.
Kala Ra credits his father for being instrumental in helping to shape his songwriting ability because as a young boy he was forced to learn new vocabulary words every day. Being raised on Chicago’s infamous south-side as a very young boy, Kala could easily have become a statistic, a product of his environment. "I still am!" he exclaims. “But not all products must amount to the same thing; pressure makes some crumble, others become diamonds." And he
shines in stereo, delivering his message with such poetic prose over riveting rhythms of live instrumentation that accent his raw unrelenting style.
With a background in jazz and spoken word Kala Ra intends to show a smoother side of Hardcore, while getting the point across in a minimal, acoustic manner. Favorably compared to John Legend and Tupac by listeners, Kala Ra plans to command the world with his next project, the "Word of God".

Screen name:

kalara

Member since:

Jul 06 2013

Active over 1 month ago

Level of commitment:

Touring

Years playing music:

10

Gigs played:

10 to 50

Tend to practice:

More than 3 times per week

Available to gig:

4-5 nights a week

Most available:

Nights

Influences

Born on the South side of Chicago, IL, Da Real is no stranger to pain.
Having lost his mother at the age of three, he was raised by his
father in a single parent household. In the sixth grade he began
studying the piano, then the trumpet, which spawned his love for music
at an early age. Looking at the ways of the world, he knew that many
things needed to change. He promotes that change in his music. With so
much violence and sex in music today, its not hard to understand why
the new generation of youth's values are so low and so shallow. The
love of money has made the music business a mockery; rather than true
reflection and life lessons, rappers are portraying the patented
"gangster" image, strictly for profit. "It's a war within the mind",
Da Real says. He is definitely a soldier on the front line of the
spiritual battlefield. With a dedication to the truth, Da Real seeks
to glorify the Most High in the highest form of praise, music. With a
background in poetry and spoken word, Da Real has proven to be one the
most lyrically talented and gifted artists of today.

EQUIPMENT

Trumpet
Acoustic Guitar

MUSIC