Personal Life
Although born into a Muslim family in Iran, he was raised in a secular irreligious household in Los Angeles, California. From the age of 18, he studied many religions, including Wicca. At the age of 20, Ali converted to Islam after attending an Islamic camp. He belonged to a wealthy family in Iran who did not accept it when he converted and subsequently disinherited him.
In 2001, Ali got married. He resides in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California with his wife and two children. His studio is the second bedroom of the apartment.
Read more about this topic: Baba Ali
Famous quotes containing the words personal life, personal and/or life:
“A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state.... It’s become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.”
—E.L. (Edgar Lawrence)
“We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)