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Hak Daddy aka Haka Benitez aka Haknando Torres

Music/Entertainment Consultant (Event & Talent Management/Marketing/Promotions)

About Me

Working as a Freelance consultant specialising in A&R; Marketing; Promotions; Event & Talent Management for Music; Sports & Entertainment industry. Clients over the past 3 years have included: 679 Recordings/Warner Music (Kano); Empire Management (Estelle); Island Records (Lady Sovereign); EMI Records (Shawn Emmanuel); V2 Recordings (Lethal B); GCAP Media (Choice FM); Ministry Of Sound (Smoove); Twice As Nice; British Film Institute (Blackworld); TVT Records UK (Lil Jon); Urban Events (Urban Music Weekender); Ace & Invisible (BBC 1Xtra/Channel U presenters); DJ Spoony (Radio 5 Live); Shawn John (Radio City 96.7 Liverpool) Mark Morrison (Mona Records); DV8 Training (Music Business Lecturer); Alison Hinds (1720 ent); This Is Anfield.com etc.Promoted & Marketed over 20 Platinum & Gold selling albums as well as over 50 National Top 40 hits throughout my career working with the likes of Sean Paul; Missy Elliott; The Streets; Mark Ronson; Brandy; Busta Rhymes; Lil' Kim; Fat Joe; Twista; Fabolous; Marques Houston; Elephant Man; Wayne Wonder & Kevin Lyttle to name just a few. I have over 17 years of experience in A&R; Marketing; Promotions; Event & Talent Management across various positions in the Music Industry (Warner Music UK - Senior Urban A&R/Promotions Manager); Print Media (Promotions Manager - Trace Magazine & Freelance Music journalist) & Radio (Choice FM - New Media / Special Projects Co-Ordinator).For more info hit me up @ [email protected]
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My Interests

Football; Movies; Music; Travelling; Computer Games; Gym; Reading; chilling with my friends; playing with my son & sleeping!

I'd like to meet:

NETWORKING WITH INDUSTRY PEEPS AND ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO HIRE MY COMPANIES MARKETING, PROMOTIONS AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES. FOR MORE INFO ON THESE SERVICES PLEASE EMAIL [email protected] or http://hakdaddy.hi5.com

Music:

Music is the soundtrack to my life... Hip Hop is definately my first love but RnB; 80's Soul; Slow Jams; Ol' Skool UKG; Bashment; Soulful/Funky House all play a big part...Favourite artists include: Mobb Deep/Jadakiss/Ghostface Killa/Mary J Blige/Donnell Jones/R Kelly/Jaheim/Maxwell/Ne-Yo/Sean Paul/Sizzla/Jah Cure/Capleton/Beenie Man/Jay Z/Big Daddy Kane/Rakim/Biggie/2Pac/LL Cool J/Run DMC/Public Enemy/A Tribe Called Quest/Stevie Wonder/Luther Vandross/Jodeci/Supercat/Sanchez/Beres Hammond/Bob Marley ...Too many tracks to mention but Cameo "candy"; Luther Vandross "See Me"; Change "Glow Of Love" and Stevie Wonder "Do I Do" has to be near the top plus Biggie "Juicy" & "Mo Money Mo Problems"; Big Daddy Kane "Set it Off"; Mobb Deep "shook ones"; Run DMC "peter piper"; Nas "Ether"; force md's "tender love" and maxwell "woman's work"Fave albums: Public Enemy "nation of millions"; biggie "ready to die" & "life after death"; mary j "whats the 411 remix album"; wu-tang "enter 36 chambers"; big daddy kane "long live the kane"; mobb deep "infamous..."; eric b & rakim "paid in full"; Jodeci "diary of a mad band"; r kelly "12 play"; Jay z "blueprint"; "black album" and "reasonable doubt"; nas "illmatic"; tribe called quest "low end theory"; dr dre "chronic"; snoop "doggy style"; ghostface & raekwon "only built for cuban links".. width="425" height="350" ......

Movies:

American Gangster; Simpsons; Transformers; Scarface; Goodfellas; Snatch; Boyz n The Hood; Menace II Society; Juice; Paid In Full; City of God; New Jack City; Brown Sugar; Love and Basketball; Bullet Boy; Kidadulthood; Rolling With The Nine's; Two Can Play That Game; Ray; Ali; Crash; American Pie 1,2 & 3; Friday; House Party; Kings of Comedy; Queens Of Comedy; Coming To America; Jay Z "Fade To Black"; Krush Groove plus various comedy dvd's from Def Comedy Jam; Jamie Foxx Live; Eddie Murphy "Raw" etc... Im a movie fan too many to mention!

Television:

LFC TV; Phonejacker; Simpsons; Punk'd; Making of The Band 4; Match of The Day; Everybody Hates Chris; Skins; Sky Sports/Sky Sports News; Setanta Sports/Setanta Sports News; MTV Base; E Entertainment... not sure if there is anything else on TV as im only tuned in to them... :0)

Books:

All you need to know about the Music Business; Hitmen; Last Night A DJ Saved My Life; Make it Happen/Kevin Liles; The 33 Strategies of War; 48 Laws of Power; Da Vinci Code; The Art Of War; Thick Face, Black Heart; The Art of Seduction plus autobiographies on Steven Gerrard; Russell Simmons; LL Cool J; Wendy Williams; Quincy Jones; Muhammad Ali; Nelson Mandela; Rafa Benitez; Robbie Fowler; Pele and Bob Marley

Heroes:

BART SIMPSON; RUSSELL SIMMONS; STEVEN GERRARD; JAMIE CARRAGHER; RAFA BENITEZ; BILL SHANKLY; MUMHAMMED ALI; PELE; BOB MARLEY; PUFF DADDY; SUPERCAT; STEVIE WONDER

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About Me... In detail...

Here we go... Been involved in the game for nearly 17 years... Started off in the music industry in the early 90's working Saturday job in legendary East London underground record store; Music Power ...
Posted by Hak Daddy aka Haka Benitez aka Haknando Torres on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:54:00 PST