Fabian Alsultany

Artist, Concerned citizen, Entrepreneur, Event planner, Global soul, Idea generator, Musician, Producer, Promoter, World traveler

A first-generation American of Iraqi and Cuban descent from New York City, Fabian Kamal Alsultany has spent his life bridging gaps. Dubbed by Billboard Magazine as the “World Music Impresario,” Alsultany has carved a unique path in the international music community as a premier producer, presenter, entrepreneur, visionary and DJ. He has successfully evolved an early love for music as a teenager at the United Nations International School - producing every talent show and DJing all the school dances—into one of the most inspiring global music careers in America. Alsultany has produced and guided the creation of countless albums and concerts since the early 1990s, launching the Live Events Division for Putumayo World Music and representing music industry legend Chris Blackwell (Bob Marley/U2) as Director of A&R and Festivals at Palm Pictures. He founded Uprise Management & Productions, where he represented a stable of world music stars and branded festivals, and also worked as the talent buyer of legendary Tribeca nightclub SOB’s. Alsultany’s knowledgeable business acumen proved invaluable to the creation and implementation of a variety of groundbreaking national and international productions of utmost social and cultural importance. He produced Lonely Planet’s “Passport to the World” campaign featuring Michael Franti and Friends, as well as the “TED After Hours” series at the 2011 & 2012 TED conferences. He oversaw the curation and live event production for the a series multi-artist Putumayo Presents national tours including Women of Latin America, Mali, Acoustic Africa, New Orleans and several others. He also produced the now legendary Asian Massive tour of 2000 which launched and secured the careers of South Asian electronic pioneers Karsh Kale, the Midival Punditz and dj Cheb I Sabbah. His first major tour as producer was offered to him by music icons Chris Blackwell and Joe Boyd, that being the famous Africa Fete 99 with Baaba Maal, Taj Mahal & Toumani Dibate’s ‘Kulanjan’ and Oliver Mtukudtzi. He has also left his mark handling large concerts at Central Park Summerstage, Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn and the Hollywood Bowl. As the creator of GlobeSonic Sound System, a traveling DJ collective that fuses traditional music from the Middle East, India, Latin America and Africa with modern electronica, he has brought the evolving sounds of international music to global audiences. An electrifying performer, he toured the country back and forth as keyboard player for New York reggae artists John Brown’s Body and 32 Tribes, the latter featuring juggernaut tabla player and producer, Karsh Kale. He later performed alongside Kale in Tabla Beat Science, an India-meets-America ensemble founded by bassist/producer Bill Laswell and featuring tabla maestro Zakir Hussain and sarangi player Ustad Sultan Khan. His numerous duties as manager, producer, representative and DJ have taken him around the world many times over. His reach within the world music community spans the globe. His extensive traveling regimen has helped Alsultany develop a personal public relations language that he easily implements when dealing with a wide diversity of artists. Alsultany’s private ventures have included establishing Uprise Works, a group of creative business professionals who provide creative marketing and strategic consulting for individuals, musicians, record labels, festivals and companies. Another venture was a full service international music company, GlobeSonic Entertainment, which focused primarily on producing groundbreaking tours, shows and festivals in the entertainment and wellness industries. In July of 2009 Alsultany entered a battle with cancer, spending over eight months conquering it. It was around then that he seriously began refining his producer’s prowess at events in the health and wellness sphere. During the first decade of the twenty-first century, he went from DJing and producing Body Temple, a New York-based holistic rave that saw upwards of one thousand people walk through the doors for an alcohol-free party, to heading up events the Omega Institute, Jivamukti Yoga School and Integral Yoga. The fabled GlobeSonic on the Pier party, a free outdoor dance event sponsored by the NY City Parks Department currently in its eighth year, saw over 2,200 people dance in one evening in the summer of 2011. In July 2010 he relocated to Santa Monica to take a position to help produce the Santa Monica Pier Twilight Summer Concert Series. While there, he accepted an invitation to become the Director of Programming at the Conga Room, a one thousand person capacity venue in the downtown Los Angeles entertainment district, LA LIVE. In 2011 he initiated a new venture, Tadasana: The International Festival of Yoga & Music, an annual multi-day festival which launches on April 20th 2012 in Santa Monica, CA.

musc, djing, world music, playing piano, producing events, food, yoga, good movies,