Bilal Salaam has been played on NTS shows including Francis Redman, with I'm The Bridge You Must Burn first played on 7 February 2016.

Between his mother’s native Newark, New Jersey and his father’s New Bern, North Carolina…between the contrasting cultures of the middle east and westernized America…between the federal jurisdiction of Washington DC, and the fundamentally faulty Jim Crow of Maryland State…there is Bilal Salaam.

Named by his father after Islam’s first caller to prayer, Bilal Muhammad Salaam studied classical voice at The University of The Arts(Philadelphia) and journalism at Morgan State University(Baltimore). While attending Morgan and touring with the choir, he became enamored with…