About The Speaker
Rab Bakari
Rab Bakari is a veteran in the music entertainment business with decades of hands-on experience as an authentic New York Hip Hop creator, music producer, DJ, corporate professional & social media platform advisor.
Rab Bakari is a veteran in the music entertainment business with decades of hands-on experience as an authentic New York Hip Hop creator, music producer, DJ, corporate professional & social media platform advisor. He is a driving force behind the sound that is African music today, particularly in Accra, Ghana.
Rab has contributed to several blogs such as Okay Africa and Africology and previously spent 13 years at Universal Music Group / Def Jam (USA). Rab has spoken at SXSW Music (USA); Social Media Week (Nigeria); CMJ Music Marathon (USA); Cariforum EU Business Forum (Jamaica); Geekend (USA); Kenya Music Week/ONGEA; MIDEM (France); WOMEX (Hungary, Spain); New York University (USA), Ghana DJ Awards and AFRIMA (Nigeria).
He also help launch The Mic: Africa & the Take Back The Mic mobile app. Mixerpot is his new African-orientated, booking, conference-speaking & entertainment consulting agency.