Ken-Ali

Named after the first president of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, and Muhammad Ali, Kenyatta Ali Chapple was born almost a month premature in Philadelphia General Hospital. The middle of three children, his curiosity was recognized from an early age in the form of his constantly taking things apart, which got him into plenty of trouble with his struggling, single mother. Miami, Florida became his new home at age 5, when his mother married and relocated he and his two sisters to the balmy new climate. Kenyatta exhibited a penchant for words when, in the fourth grade, he won a Halloween story contest that got his story printed in the Miami Sun Sentinal. He followed that by writing a plea to President Reagan to curtail nuclear escalation, in response to seeing the television movie "The Day After." Played Indio in a high school stage production of West Side Story. He built a name for himself in the South Florida music scene as Ken-Ali, fronting several bands, including his latest endeavor, Singi