Rene Van Verseveld

Rene Van Verseveld, born in Utrecht, Netherlands is a Dutch musician, songwriter, recording engineer, composer and record producer.

Early Years

Rene Van Verseveld, son of Dutch jazz musician Cees van Verseveld, began playing music at age 9. A classically trained bassist, he toured the world playing on cruise ships before collaborating with King MC in Amsterdam on the 1986 European hit "What Have I Done for You Lately."

Top 40 European Hits

He established himself as a European dance record producer working with such artists as Candy Dulfer and 2 Unlimited, charting in the Dutch, French, Scandinavian, German and British Top 40 Dance and Pop Charts nine times between the years of 1986 and 1992 with the songs;

*"Gerard Joling" (Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You)
*"Tatjana Simic feat Wendy Alane Wright", (Feel Good)
*"Def La Desh" (Feel They Rhythm; Feat Wendy Alane Wright)
*"Zype" (Used To Be Your Lover)
*"Room 4 2" (Over You)
*"Room 4 2" (Baby He’s Mine)
*"Miker G" (Show’m The Bass, 2006)
*"T-Minus 5" (Unforgiven, 2006)
*"King MC" (What Have I Done For You Lateley)

Future Sound Studios / Engineering and Production Career

Van Verseveld moved to Los Angeles, California in 1994, where he formed Future Sound Studios. He partnered up with Fernando Garibay and together, they have worked with artists such as Dr. Dre, Mark Wahlberg, Ricky Martin, Mark Anthony, Paris Hilton, Macy Gray, Little Richard, Grace Jones, Garbage, Jay Z, Enrique Iglesias, Will Smith, Technotronic, Ike Turner and Smokey Robinson.

Film and Television Scores

Rene Van Verseveld has worked as a Composer or Engineer on the scores of numerous television programs and films including;
*"Everybody Hates Chris" (Chris Rock, 2007)
*"Burn Notice", (Jeffrey Donovan, 2007)
*"Just Jordan" (Justin Chon, 2007)
*"X's & O's / Film" (Clayne Crawford, 2007)
*"King Of Queens" (Kevin James, 1999-2007)
*"Lincoln Heights" (Russell Hornsby, 2006)
*"Invincible / Film" (Mark Wahlberg, 2006)
*"Lost" (Matthew Fox, 2006)
*"Soul Food" (Vanessa Williams, 2004)dn
*"CSI; Miami" (David Caruso, 2004)
*"American Pie / Film" (Jason Biggs, 2001)
*"Big Brother" ( Reality-TV, 2000)
*"The Parkers" (Mo'Nique, 1999)
*"Butter / HBO Film" (Terrence Howard, 1998)

External links

* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=135034580 Rene Van Verseveld Official MySpace Page]
* [http://www.qlphollywood.com/qlpindex.html QlP Productions and Future Sound Studios]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Rene+van+Verseveld Rene van Verseveld at Discogs]
* [http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,311343,00.html No Authority at Artist Direct / Rene Van Verseveld Engineer]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/King+MC King Mc at Discogs]