Born May 7th 1966 in East New York, Brooklyn and raised in Astoria, Queens. Kamal is the son of an immigrant Bangladeshi father and Trinidadian mother (His father opened a string of East Indian restaurants in Manhattan's East Village, and his mother was a classically trained opera singer) After attending P.S.122Q and Steinway JHS 141Q, Kamal got accepted into the high school of Art & Design in 1980, then went on to graduate at City-As-School in 1984. Kamal is an accomplished musician, who plays the electric bass and scored all the music on his directorial debut, God Has a Rap Sheet (2003) with his band "The sacred groove posse". 1993 saw Kamal in the comedy group, "The Jerky Boys", who went on to sell 4 1/2 million copies and were nominated for a Grammy in 1995. After leaving the "Jerky boys", Kamal directed the documentary Artists of Hell's Kitchen (2000) (V) (he won best director of a documentary at the New York International & Independent Film & Video Festival). His new film, the feature God Has a Rap Sheet (2003) has had its fan base of hollywood bigshots - Martin Scorsese and Abel Ferrara both called the film "Brilliant". He is an avid baseball fan, partically the New York Mets, and has studied Judo as a serious hobby.
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