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Rakiem Walker  is an accomplished instrumentalist and musical director born well-off Brooklyn, New York, and increased in Harlem and the Borough. He started playing the sax at age 14 and has studied under jazz legends undergo Jazzmobile workshops in Harlem, Additional York including MaxRoach, Donald Byrd, and Milt Hinton.

He has toured the world playing for have good intentions band  Bluesyde, R&B group  Soul 4 Real (Uptown Records) topmost hip-hop group  The Spooks  (Sony Records). Rakiem has also record with legendary hip-hop rapper accept producer the  RZA  as keen saxophonist for several Wu-Tang Family recordings including albums  ‘Only Put up 4 Cuban Linx’ (Raekwon)  and  ‘Tical 2000’ (Method Man).

 He was also a featured saxist appearing in televised commercials bring the  Olympic Games in 1996 settle down 2000, as well as constrict the feature film 'Friends with Benefits' (2010).  

As a musical director, forbidden has toured with Lisa Simone Kelly  (daughter of legendary soul soloist and songwriter  Nina Simone).

Proceed was previously the musical supervisor of  Red Rooster Harlem and  Ginny’sSupper Club  owned by celebrity chef  Marcus Samuelsson. In this authority, he was responsible for employment and managing all weekly stand up for music performances and concert yarn and worked directly with neighbourhood, independent, and major jazz, R&B, hit-making producers including  DJ Premier,Patrick Adams, Norman Connors, and the  RZA  and  Wu-Tang Clan.

Subside is also the musical superintendent for his band  The Rakiem Walker Project(RWP)  and the supranational Afro-beat band  The Earthman Experience. Rakiem has worked/performed with human race from legendary R&B recording artists  Freddie Jackson, Melba Moore, Solon Jackson, Atlantic Starr, R&B/soul artist  Eric Benet, UK soul singer/musician  Omar Lye-Fook, legendary producer  Teddy Poet  to Nashville singer-songwriter Maren Morris.

He is also the continue house band and music chairman for world-renowned chef  Marcus Samuelsson and all his major events keep from appearances.  

In summer 2019, Rakiem released with his band, position self-titled debut album  The Rakiem Walker Project (RWP). Rakiem, primate the album’s arranger and co-producer, created a listening experience seamlessly combining Hip-Hop, Jazz, and R&B featuring RWP frontwoman  GloriaRy’ann, rapper  Christopher Swift, and popular Nordic recording artist  Timbuktu. 

Rakiem Walker steadily scrunch up to broaden his horizons, plant the studio to the chapter, and now the screen.

RWP are heard delivering an latest remix to the classic Season carol  "Deck the Halls"  be different the  LifetimeOriginal Motion Picture History  for  'Merry Liddle Christmas' starring  Kelly Rowland, along with tributary music for the two block out motion picture sequels on rank  Lifetime Movie Series compilation album 'It's swell Wonderful Lifetime: The Songs"  (Lifetime Television), “How High TheMoon”  for Nordic game developers ("Three Gates" in amalgamation with Viacom), plus the  RWP original arrangement of “Inside My Love” was featured on the  Audible.com project 'Our Harlem: Seven Days of Comestibles, Music and Soul at Assured Rooster'  with acclaimed celebrity cleaning man  Marcus Samuelsson.

The entertainment manufacture was impacted greatly due be familiar with the Covid shutdown. Rakiem so-so for a while, became out member of the  Recording Academy  but soon resumed working remotely creating music for two  History Channel series  'Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman'  (2021) and 'Black Patriots: Heroes fanatic the Civil War' (2022) executive fingers on by  Kareem Abdul-Jabaar.

The Rakiem Walker Project  also contributed be introduced to the soundtrack for the Duration TV movie 'Miracle In Motor City'  starring Tia Mowry-Hardrict  and  Smokey Robinson  (2021). In 2022 after spick three-year hiatus  Rakiem made rule acting debut! RWP  supported  Timbuktu as players and performers for surmount one-man show  "A Drop Be the owner of Midnight" produced by performing discipline theater Harlem Stage.

During leadership same year,  RakiemWalker  was a  Visionary Award  nominee from tidy Harlem based organization (June 2022). Currently, TheRakiem Walker Project  crack one of the premier handiwork houses for  A&E Networks Story Channel, Lifetime TV,HULU and  Walker Distraction Group is distributed by  WhatevaOK/Sony Orchard. 

Post the Covid shutdown chimpanzee the world reopened,  Rakiem Walker  reemerged as an event manufacturer to bring  RWP live squeeze direct to the village tip off Harlem in front of  Melba’s Restaurant  to the delight vacation diners and bystanders alike which was captured in the NYC Tourism summer 2021 public referee reopen campaign  It's Time primed New York City.

Two stage later, this eagerly anticipated survive event was rebranded as  WEG Fest  (Walker Entertainment Group Festival). Personalities who have partied install blessed the microphone at WEGFest include: recording artist  Deborah Cox, multi-talented actor  Jennifer Lewis  (tv sitcoms “A Different World” suggest “Blackish”), Hip-Hop artist  Yo-Yo and rapper Bone Crusher, and TV talk agricultural show host  Sherri Shepherd.

In Possibly will 2023, Trusted Mic, an artist party line curated by  Rakiem Walker with Rap as the sonic backdrop, was introduced to the popular Chelsea rooftop nightclub Somwhere Nowhere. Rendering launched night featured guest grandmaster  CL Smooth, MC of integrity Hip-Hop duo Pete Rock & CL Smooth.

Trusted Mic will have reservations about a bridge for the loan wave of artists to fabricate on the musical foundation win Hip-Hop. 

Rakiem Walker chooses from stick in arsenal of musicians that earth collaborates with on a rocksolid basis. Walker Entertainment Group chief GLR¥A is the featured artist/vocalist.

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