Bilal (American Singer) Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics

Bilal Quick InfoHeight 5 ft 2½ in Weight 64 kg Date of Birth August 23, 1979 Zodiac Sign Virgo Eye Color Dark Brown

Bilal is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He has released albums, extended plays, mixtapes, and tracks like 1st Born Second, A Love Surreal, Love for Sale, Airtight’s Revenge, In Another Life, Voyage-19, The Return of Mr. Wonderful, The Retrospection, Something To Hold On To, Little One, Levels, Back To Love, West Side Girl, and Restart. Moreover, he was a member of Soulquarians, a rotating collective of experimental Black music artists. Some of the other Soulquarians members have been , , , , , and .

Born Name

Bilal Sayeed Oliver

Nick Name

Bilal

Sun Sign

Virgo

Born Place

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Residence

New York City, New York, United States

Nationality

Education

Bilal attended Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts and then got enrolled at New York City’s The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.

Occupation

Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer

Genre

Progressive Soul, Neo Soul, R&B, Jazz, Psychedelic Soul

Instruments

Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar

Labels

E1, Plug Research, Universal Records, Interscope Records, Purpose

Net Worth

According to CelebrityNetWorth.com, his net worth had been $3 Million.

Build

Slim

Bilal as seen in an Instagram post in July 2021

Height

5 ft 2½ in or 158.5 cm

Weight

64 kg or 141 lbs

Race / Ethnicity

Black

Hair Color

Black

Eye Color

Dark Brown

Sexual Orientation

Straight

Distinctive Features

Short stature

Religion

He was raised in a religiously mixed household, his mother being Christian and his father Muslim.

Bilal performing at the A38 concert hall in Budapest in 2008

Bilal Facts

He became choir director at his mother’s church when he was 11 years old.
When he was 14, he formed a group and performed gigs at the Blue Moon Cafe in Philadelphia.
His father used to take him to the city’s jazz clubs and while once talking to Beat magazine, Bilal stated, “I used to have to sit in the back where the cigarette machine was. They had a curtain they could put over me just in case the police came”, adding, “I remember sitting back there watching all of these different bands who really intrigued me a lot. I liked the way the cats dressed, the way they talked. I got to see Terrence Blanchard, Kenny Kirkland, Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts. I was a 13-year-old – I made up my mind then that I wanted to be in music some kind of way.”
He met the pianist Robert Glasper on his first day at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.
On July 27, 2001, Bilal released his debut album 1st Born Second through Interscope Records and it included songs like All That I Am (Somethin’ for the People), Fast Lane, Sally, When Will You Call, Soul Sista, Love It, Queen of Sanity, Love Poems, and Second Child. The album became a critical success and reviewing for PopMatters, Neal hailed the album as “one of the most significant debuts in black pop during the past 25 years”.
The album 1st Born Second peaked at #10 on the US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and at #31 on the US Billboard 200 chart.
His 4th studio album, A Love Surreal, was released on February 26, 2013, via eOne Music and it was ranked at #17 on the U.S. Independent Albums (Billboard) chart, at #19 on the U.S. Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) chart, and at #103 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart.
On June 30, 2015, In Another Life (Bilal’s 5th studio album) was released and PopMatters critic John Paul hailed the album as “a stone cold soul classic” and said it would prove to be perhaps “one of, if not the best R&B albums of the year”.

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