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Declau

About Me

Primarily, I play the keyboards/piano; I am classicaly trained but my heart is with Jazz. You can also hear me bang on drums, hit some bass guitar lines on some of my tracks. My first live performance was opening for artist Ray Lema who encouraged me to get serious about my music. I picked up sound engineering and production skills working for Cela editions musicales, EMI, Haut' Chose, Nublood Records, Motown on many studio, live and television projects. My music is a matrix generating hip hop beats, RnB melodies and harmonies, and ethnic percussions. My challenge: create a unique sound by blending my influences and make you go: "whoah !!" Recent productions: .Tha Vill .Uness (Arabian Girl, Would you be mine, and Belly-Remix) Nublood Records/Hi-Bias/Warner Music. .Kynt ( Code name blue-remix, Had enough) .Brian McKnight (Gemini) Motown .The opening music theme for Echostar's Dishnetwork Pay-per-view channelsI appreciate you stopping by. Check out the tracks, leave comments, spread the word, thank you, come visit again soon. 2 fingaz Declau

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Member Since: 10/01/2006
Band Members: Claude "declau" Soumsa - Producer, composer Instruments: piano/keyboards, guitar, drums, talkbox.

Influences: Teddy Riley, Quincy Jones, Wally Badarou, Pete Rock, Vangelis, Vladimir Cosma, Francois de Roubaix, Marley Marl, Timbaland, Devante Swing, Al. B Sure, Kyle West, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Labi Siffre, Salif Keita, Manu Dibango, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, , Fela Kuti, Youssou N'Dour, Salif Keita, Manu Dibango, Thomas Newman, Tchaikovsky, Rimski Korsakov, Prokofiev, George Benson, Marcus Miller, Carlos Santana, Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Maurice Jarre, Jean Michel Jarre, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Gustavo Santaolalla, Herbie Hancock, D'Angelo, The Roots, Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Barry White, Fela Kuti, Youssou N'Dour, etc, etc...
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

THA VILL ON FUELTV FOR VANS DOWNTOWN SHOWDOWN

CHECK IT OUT AIRING ON FUEL TV/FOX SPORTS NETWORKS.   YOU WILL HEAR THA VILL'S "IF U A FREAK" (Produced by Elvio and Declau)
Posted by on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:36:00 GMT