Amina Shareef Ali is an artist, writer and performer based in Oakland, California.
Hailing from St. Louis, Missouri, Amina studied music composition at Oberlin College and moved to the Bay Area in 2007. She has released six records of original songs: The Once and Future Boyfriend (2010), Holy Rock and Roll (2011), How to End the War (2011), A Place to Remember the Dead (2014) and In The Dark (Awake Of Course), Vol. 1 (2021) and In The Dark (Awake Of Course), Vol. 2 (2023). She has also drawn a tarot deck and periodically written pieces for SF Weekly, Autostraddle and others.
In 2021 she began working on the screenplay for her first feature film, I Came Back To Life.
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