Siba Giba | |
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| Siba Giba in L.A. (2018) | |
| Background information | |
| Also known as | Siba-Giba, SBG, Sebastian Bardin-Greenberg |
| Born | |
| Occupations | Record producer, rapper, composer |
| Instrument | Drums |
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]
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]