LuFuki
Detroit, MI
Music & Dance
LuFuki Ismaeel Dhul-Qarnayn is a composer, organizer, guitarist, historian, and cultural curator in Detroit who views music as a spiritual practice that brings about healing and unity and whose art practice centers around Black ancestral legacy. He formed the collective, LuFuki and Divine Providence and has released four albums since: Inner Horizons, Elephants and Mountains, First Light, and Love&Light. LuFuki is currently working on several projects including XRoads, a traveling exhibit on the history of Black Muslims in Jazz, Autophysiopsychic Millennium, a creative research-music collective to explore and experiment with the philosophy and music methodology of the great Dr. Yusef Lateef, which was featured at Carnegie Hall and Cranbrook, and Detroit Red, a sonic interpretation of the odyssey of Malcolm X through his love for Jazz.
LuFuki holds a Masters's degree from Wayne State University in Near Eastern Studies, specializing in the Arabic Language, with a concentration in the literary genre of Tasliyah, praise poetry of the Prophet Muhammad, and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in Africana Studies and History. He is a published author, translator, and researcher on various aspects of Islamic thought.