Siba Giba (or SBG) is a French-American record producer, rapper, composer, curator, journalist and hip hop historian who lives in Brooklyn.[2] He is a member of the hip hop group Get Open.[3] He is the founder of Overtime Records and is also the co-founder and artistic director of the Hip Hop Loves Foundation.[2][4]
Siba Giba | |
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 Siba Giba in L.A. (2018) | |
| Background information | |
| Also known as | Siba-Giba, SBG, Sebastian Bardin-Greenberg |
| Born | Paris, France[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Record producer, rapper, composer |
| Instrument | Drums |
As a producer, he has worked with Daddy-O (Stetsasonic), Sadat X (Brand Nubian), Vinia Mojica and Freestyle Fellowship.[2] In 1999, he produced and co-wrote the song "Painkillers" by Everlast for the album Whitey Ford Sings the Blues. The record was certified triple platinum, selling more than 3,000,000 copies, and was nominated for two Grammy Awards.[5]
In 2017/2018 Giba curated an exhibition entitled, "Hip-Hop : Un Age d'Or", a hip hop culture collective that featured photographs and artifacts from the period known as Golden age hip hop (mid/late 1980s until the mid-1990s). The show ran at the Musée d'Art Contemporain (Museum Of Contemporary Art) in Marseille, France, from May 13, 2017, until January 14, 2018.[6]
References
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- ^ a b c "Today's Producer Spotlight Shine's On: Siba Giba". Instrumology. March 9, 2014. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
- ^ "Get Open - The Week-End". Discogs. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
- ^ "overtime records inc". over-2013. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
- "RIO DE JANIERO (sic) | Hip Hop Loves". Retrieved May 28, 2019.
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- "Where The Heck Has Everlast Been?". MTV News. Archived from the original on May 31, 2019. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
- "Painkillers-Everlast". Retrieved May 28, 2019 – via Soundcloud.
- "Release "Whitey Ford Sings the Blues" by Everlast". MusicBrainz. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
- "Who Sang "Painkillers"? Everlast". Lyrics007. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
- "Everlast". GRAMMY. February 15, 2019. Retrieved May 28, 2019. - ^ "Hip-Hop Un Age d'Or-Exhibit, 69 avenue d'haifa, Marseille (2019)". Gluseum. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
- "Western Connecticut State University Events". Western Connecticut State University. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
- "HANGTIME SAISON 9 EPISODE 34 : HIPHOP EXPO". Radio Grenouille (in French). Retrieved May 28, 2019.
- "Exposition Hip Hop un âge d'or au MAC Marseille" (in French). Marseille Chauffeur Service. June 18, 2017. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
- "HIP HOP : UN ÂGE D'OR | Marseille expos" (in French). Archived from the original on June 20, 2019. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
- "VP Agent". Valérie Paumelle. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019. Retrieved May 28, 2019.