Ren Hook AKA "Chameleon" started music as a teenager playing the guitar and the bass in several rock and funk groups. At that time he was already into hip hop but as a dancer and as a graffiti artist. Playing the piano, he started to compose songs but really got into producing when he acquired a MPC 2000. That's when he started attending Music Conservatory and learned music theory and composition. His aim was to get rid of the use of sampling in his music "I try to keep it original. I mean I love sampled hip hop too, Primo, Kanye or Hi Tek, they are really hot, but I feel I can express myself better in playing". In 1999; Hook met up with Damon Williams, his manager. He later moved to Paris to work with gold selling rapper Zoxea. But Ren aka "Chameleon" background also allowed him to wok in many other fields. As matter of fact, his school credits (master degree in business marketing and foreign languages) gave him the ability to speak 3 different languages fluently (English, Italian and French) and the opportunity to do internships all over the world in the music business ("The best one was in San Francisco where I was working for Kmel Radio, I met all the artists I used to listen to in my room as kiddo, that was crazy»
As a musician, Ren is able to work on any kind of music "whether it's classical, soul, reggae, crunk, rock, pop or dance music, I'm in it"." Hip Hop is my life of course but I don't want any barriers. I can listen to Juvenile or Jay-Z and then switch to Alanis Morrisette, Coldplay or The Police. As Richard Strauss said, there are only two kinds of music: good and bad ".
Music is like a language; you can learn the basics, the grammar and read a lot in order to make sense but you gotta love it to make it beautiful.
Ren credits includes now The Game, Solano, Dray (from former group Das EFX), Won G, J-Ro (from Tha Liks), Remo Conscious, Dos Hermanos (Spain), Evelyne (Sweden) and certified gold French artists such as Rohff, Rim K(113), FactorX, La Fouine, Dany Dan..
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