Harold Mujahid O'Neal is a Tanzanian-born American pianist, film score composer, record producer, actor, and dancer. He has worked with U2, Jay Z, Disney, HBO, and MTV. He’s been compared to Duke Ellington, Kenny Kirkland, and Maurice Ravel by major publications and is considered to be of this generation's greatest pianists and composers. In 2019, he was awarded a fellowship to the Royal Society of the Arts with the Patron being Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
The last protégé of Andrew Hill, O'Neal began working with musical luminaries from a young age. He toured the world with Bobby Watson when he was 19 after studying composition at the Berklee College Of Music. He left the Manhattan School of Music to replace pianist Jason Moran in the influential band, The Greg Osby 4, recording for Blue Note Records.
As a composer, O'Neal is known for blending the genres of 20th-century impressionist music with modern music. His solo album, Marvelous Fantasy is influenced by the works of Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Fortune, NPR, and PRI. He has composed music for Disney's Tomorrowland, Damon Dash and Kanye West's Loisaidas, and was a featured artist on the Bollywood film Tanu Weds Manu Returns for the song, "Old School Girl."
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