Live: Bilal - Fort Green Park, Brooklyn

He is cool. He is expressionless. Dressed in his sophisticated best he approaches the mic with command. This is his moment, and he is Bilal. His voice - incomparable to all others - is a vocal enigma. As he begins singing "Sometimes," the audience swells with excitement, caught up in the rapture of his soulful croon. Halfway into the song, he belts out a piercing note leaving attendees in awe. "Sometimes, I wish I could be like Moses/ Round up my people, move out the ghetto," sings a now bare-chested Bilal commanding the audience, "to stop the bourgeois shit and move." After leaving the stage, he returns to a sea of thunderous handclaps to close out his performance with "Soul Sista." He, his band, and three female back-up singers could be heard throughout the 'hood. Afterwards, Bilal coolly leaves the stage, halting for flashing cameras, smiles, waves, handshakes, and autographs. His job here in Brooklyn tonight is done.