Abdu Ali is a Baltimore-based electronic musician, writer, cultural worker, and multidisciplinary artist who works in sound, collaboration, video, and performance. Their work often interrogates ideas of race, gender, and sexuality that manifests as poetic inquiries of identity, promoting liberation from oppressive ideologies and encouraging self-marginalized peoples to be self-determined. Their work also centers promoting authentic Black queer legacies and narratives as our histories are often subjected to distortion and erasure.

Performing across the United States and Europe, through their energetic visceral live shows, and spiritualizing audiences, they have been anointed as a cosmic, punk, and soulful tempest on stage. Ali has performed at MoMa Ps1, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Kennedy Center, and their work has been highlighted by the New York Times, The Fader, Elephant Magazine, and Tracks Arte TV. Ali has been a recipient of a 2018 Ruby Artist Grant and has held residencies at 2018 Red Bull Music Academy Bass Camp and 2018 Pioneer Works. In 2019, Ali founded as they lay, a curatorial platform that claims space for critical dialogue, collaboration, and radical envisioning for Black creative futures.