Person
- Born
- 1972-09-02
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Lyrics Born (a.k.a. Asia Born) is Tom Shimura (b. 1972), originally from Berkeley, California, though through his childhood he lived in Tokyo, Japan, and Salt Lake City, Utah. He began his hip hop career while at college at UC Davis, where he was a DJ at the college station KDVS. He is a founding member of the group of artists known as Quannum Projects. He is also one half of the group Latyrx with fellow MC Lateef the Truth Speaker. Lyrics Born has worked with many artists including KRS-One <a
Key dates
- Born
- 2 September 1972
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Tokyo
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- alternative hip-hop
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.lyricsborn.com
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1972 births21st-century American male rappers21st-century American rappersAmerican people of Italian descentAmerican rappers of Asian descentAnti- (record label) artistsEpitaph Records artistsJapanese emigrants to the United StatesJapanese musicians of Italian descentJapanese people of Italian descentLiving peopleMusicians from Berkeley, California