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Origin San Diego, California, USA
Genre Hip-Hop
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Born 1978
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Gonjasufi (born Sumach Ecks in 1978) is an American musician, disc jockey, actor and yoga teacher.
Ecks was born in 1978 to a Mexican mother and an American-Ethiopian father. He spent his formative years in Chula Vista, California.
Ecks got involved early on in the arts, playing Helios the Sun God in the opera Persephone.
In the early 1990s, he began releasing music within the San Diego hip hop scene; notably with the Masters of the Universe crew. Touring under the stage names Sumach Valentine and Randy Johnson, his first band was called Plant Lyphe.
Ecks gained notice from Warp Records in 2008 after an appearance on Californian musician Flying Lotus' album Los Angeles, on which he sings on the track "Testament". His Warp debut album, A Sufi and a Killer, was released on March 8, 2010.
In 2013, Ecks was also featured on Jay-Z's album Magna Carta Holy Grail.
Ecks' voice has been described by Pitchfork Media as "a scraggly, scary, smoked-out croak that creeps like the spiritual offspring of George Clinton and Lead Belly." He attributes his singing style to his day job teaching yoga, where he was forced to learn how to "project from [his] stomach more".
Ecks currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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