Starting early on Spinning records as a hip hop Dj in the early 80's, and a member of Afrika Bambatta's Zulu Nation, Victor became exsposed to many genres of music such as Jazz, Funk and Fusion in search of break beats to spin while the Mcees motivated the crowd.By the late 80's victor began producing local rappers taking his first steps into producing, while reading books on music theory and taking piano lessons. By the early 90's Victor moved to Bronx, New York where he met engineer Rock Smith while in a session at Jazzy Jays recording Studio. Victor Was later Introduced to I.N.S. Recording Studio by Rock, where he would take on an intership for studio engineering and eventually he found himself working with Known hip hop artists like Shine Head, Chino XL and Afrika Bammbatta.Soon after,Victor met up with Richard Lee Sisco, (1979 Graduate of Laquadia High School of Music and art. who worked under Harry Belefonte during the filming of the motion picture Beat Street) a multi musician who played mainly tenor sax. Victor became inspired to get his own saxophone after listening to Richard play and began taking lessons.Using his record collection Victor started learning to play the songs he would spin at parties During the early 80's like “Just begun†by Jimmy Castro and “Chamilian†by Herbie Hancock. Soon after 1995 Victor and Richard Sisco recorded “Surviving with the time†which can be found on Victor Valente's 2006 debut Release “off the canvas†which sold over 5,000 copies in it's first year alone.In April of 2007 Victor Released his sophmore album “New Life†on his own Independent record label (Great Moon Records)
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