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I’m Jalil and I play bass in The Housewives. I’ve lived on Saint John for almost a dozen years. I moved down with a band alongside Aaron. We went to the same high school in Ohio together (at different times). He joined a band I was in a little bit before we moved down. I played around regionally in a couple of punk bands and eventually got in a bar band or two and played a few genres. When we moved to Saint John our band was called “Brother Nature”. Eventually Aaron and I joined “Mother Goat” and since then we’ve played in several bands together and separately. I currently am in “The Housewives of Saint John”, “Mother Goat”, “Moss Henry and the Nasty Girls” and others like “Darin Keech and Friends” I also do hired gun gigs for artists who travel down from off island, such as Hayley Jane, Ryan Balthrop, Joel Cummins, and Al Schnier and others often with other members of The Housewives. I also do session work at Coral Star studios with Allen Clapp.

I grew up listening to my mom’s old records: Peter, Paul, and Mary; The Beatles; and random late 60s thru 80’s stuff. I got hooked on heavy metal at a young age with bands like Testament, Slayer, Metallica, and Black Sabbath. I listened to lots of music, going from grunge to pop and RnB to punk to rap and basically anything. My favorite music to listen to is thrash, sludge, ratchet hip hop, outlaw and trucker country, boom-bap, and psychedelic rock but I listen to just about everything.

Musicians that I’m inspired by on my bass include Geezer Butler, Mustang McGee, Kevin Shields, Thundercat, Mohini Dey, Aston Barrett, Laura Lee and Robert DeLeo.

Currently musically I listen to Geordie Greep, Pretty Lights, The Nude Party, Post Animal, Doechii, Young Dolph, Travo, Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country, and Descartes En Kant.

I love going to and playing festivals and discovering new bands. I love working in the studio, playing live, designing, and making things. My musical goals include continuing to do these things I love, including recording my own albums, making and designing clothing, and hanging out with my girlfriend Angela and my cats Sonny and Cleo.

See you at the show!