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Saul Williams
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Saul Stacey Williams is an American actor, writer, poet, and rapper born on February 29, 1972, in Newburgh, New York. He holds United States citizenship and speaks English as his native language. Williams has been educated at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and Morehouse College. His professional work spans multiple genres, including alternative hip-hop, hip-hop, rapping, and industrial music.
As a recording artist, he has released music under the record labels Wichita Recordings and American Recordings. His vocal performance is his primary instrument. He is also recognized as an author with eleven works, including titles such as *Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises* and *LAAB #0*. Williams has been married to Anisia Uzeyman and Persia White.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises
- LAAB #0
- US (A. )
- Said the shotgun to the head
- She
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Film & TV
Acting · Newburgh, New York, USA
Saul Stacey Williams (born February 29, 1972) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, musician, poet, writer, and actor. He is known for his blend of poetry and alternative hip hop and his lead roles in the 1998 independent film Slam and the 2013 jukebox musical Holler If Ya Hear Me. Description above from the Wikipedia article Saul Williams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors…
Known for
- Sinners — Jedidiah2025
- Blink Twice — Emcee2024
- Get Lit — Player2024
- Akilla's Escape — Akilla Brown2021
- Peculiar Contrast, Perfect Light2021
- Amen Break2021
- Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia2020
- A Midsummer Night's Dream — Oberon2017
- Dreamstates2016
- FLA — Shaban2014
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 286,083
- Total plays
- 7,029,814
Tags
Born in Newburgh, New York, United States, 1972, Saul Williams is considered a powerful voice of the hip-hop generation as a poet, actor, rapper, singer and musician. Best known for his blend of spoken word, poetry and hip-hop, and for his leading role in the independent film 'Slam'. He received notable recognition while supporting Nine Inch Nails for parts of their 2005-2006 tour. Saul's third album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation Of Niggy Tardust, was produced by Trent Reznor, and released
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,444x
- A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder
· 2006 · cited 28,906x
- Learning representations by back-propagating errors
· 1986 · cited 24,360x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,263x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,612x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Williams
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Newburgh
- Spouse
- Persia White
- Occupation
- film producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- electronica
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.saulwilliams.com
- Image
- SaulWilliams.jpg
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- Commons category
- Saul Williams
- date of birth
- 1972-02-29
- birth name
- Saul Stacey Williams
- pseudonym
- Saul Williams
- social media followers
- 85678
- writing language
- English language
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