"Let's Vote" has received extensive airplay on Boston's Black radio station, WILD 1090. "Ray Green, who was just elected to the Assembly from New York City, told me he featured the song in his campaign by playing it in the streets on a truck with a bullhorn."

"A lot of people have told me that upon hearing the song they actually went out and registered," Nuri says.

A native of New York City's Harlem, Nuri earned a high school scholarship to Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts from the Boys Clubs of New York. After participating in musical activities and student government, he entered Harvard in 1972 to concentrate in government. He didn't leave until 1979, taking three years off to manage produce stands in Cambridge and later New York and to support his family. Married at 18, the 26-year old Nuri has daughters ages six and seven.

Nuri says courses he took at Harvard on the politics of Black communities "interested me in the effect of politics on the lives and resources of Black people. I began to see politics as an area where not enough Blacks were involved." Consequently, Nuri says his academic experiences made him "determined to make Blacks see more about politics in new and unorthodox ways."

During his leave of absence, the late Rep. Bob Fortes (D-Mattapan) hired Nuri as an administrative assistant, and he became executive director of the Black Caucus last August, two months after his graduation. Currently serving as a liason between the Caucus and the community, Nuri develops programs and legislation for Caucus members, performing a variety of tasks from research to follow-up evaluation services.

Denying that he harbors any aspirations to higher office himself, Nuri says he hopes to "continue working in an administrative capacity while pursuing a recording career. I just hope there's not a time when I have to choose between the two.