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This article is about Doze the Musician. For Doze as synonym of Sleep, see sleep.
Doze Birth name Giancarlo Antinori Also known as Doze Born Geneva, CH Labels United Vibez Associated acts MadInk, I-Powa, Triba, World Wide Connects Doze, born Giancarlo Antinori in 1991 in Geneva, Switzerland, is an Hip-Hop singer and producer coming from the expanding Geneva musical scene.
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Biography
Debut
Born in Geneva from Italian parents, Doze grew up with music. Since his youngest age, his father, who released a rock album (Wot's Up) with the Wot?, and played several gigs in the Geneva region, educated him in a musical environnement introducing him to various instruments and to music in general.7 At the age of 12, Doze started playing piano and guitar, before discovering Hip-Hop at the age of 14. He started producing hip-hop beats and then he started rapping on them in Italian, then in French and finally in English. By the age of 16 he had already released 6 auto-produced, recorded and mixed songs with the participation of local rappers like NJ and Mister H.7 He also participated at the local "Café Cabaret" gigs at the Lycée International de Ferney Voltaire where he graduated in sciences in 2009. In 2010, Doze studied composition at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music in Brighton where platinum selling band The Kooks1 graduated a few years before. 7 He has collaborated with famous artists like Charly-B, Ol' Dirty Bastard's brother Buddha Monk from the Wu-Tang Clan and Morad from the Scred Connexion.2
Career
In 2008, at the age of 16, Doze started collaborating with local reggae artist Triba (Singer of Mikmash) on reggae songs like More Love or Burning System.7
In the same period, the two young singers played at the Regg'Ain Fest3 in Segny organised by Success Prod, with Buddha Monk from Wu-Tang Clan, where became friends with famous singer Charly-B who produced and sang on a hit-tune released in 2009: War n' Killing.
Doze arrived second at the World-Wide ReggaeEurope Contest in 2009 with the song War n' Killing.4
By 2010, Doze had created its own original style: a mixture of old school jazzy hip-hop and heavy new school production and started calling himself a "New Old School HipHopper".[1]
His collaboration with labels Success Prod and Sickboys Prod brought Doze to play gigs alongside great names like Blacko from Sniper, Afu-Ra, Buddha Monk from Wu-Tang Clan, the Scred Connexion, Charly-B, Aya Waska, Blue Eyes, Kya Bamba, Tiwony, Sergent Garcia, Daddy Mory and Big Red from Raggasonic and plenty of others...2, 5
In 2010 he collaborated with his friend and rapper MadInk and MCM from World Wide Connects on The Zen Masters project that never came out and that is to be released as a mixtape in later 2011.7
The 23 April 2011 Doze founded the United Vibez label and released his first French album Manipulation Mentale with collaboration from Morad from famous rap band the Scred Connexion and ZinZin from BlediYouth. The 13 track album is totally composed, recorded and mixed by Doze in his own studio, mastered by famous sound engineer Julien Coutois who worked with artists such as Sizzla and Orel San. 4, 6
Doze is working on an album and gig set with his great friend MadInk.7
Encounter with Charly-B
In 2009, Doze had a crucial encounter with reggae singer and producer Charly-B produced by Forward Records who taught him some of his art and produced and sang with him in a song called War n' Killingtat was greatly appreciated by the reggae scene and finished in the second place at the Reggae Europe Contest.3
Encounter with Morad from the Scred Connexion
Morad is a famous French rapper "de cité" from Paris. He is member of the Scred Connection from Bezbar together with rappers Haroun, Mokless and Koma. Doze invited him to feature on the Zen Masters Project, so they recorded a song in a recording studio in Geneva when they met at the Step-By Straight festival in Gex . As the Zen Masters Project was not released, the song "Tu Nous Baises Pas" was re-arranged and is now featured on the Manipulation Mentale album. 8
Discography
Mixtapes
Albums
- 2011 : "Manipulation Mentale" (French) United Vibez - France
Major Shows
- 2008 - Café Cabaret Ferney-Voltaire, France
- 2009 - HPS Show Underground Chevry[disambiguation needed
], France - 2009 - Café Cabaret Ferney-Voltaire, France
- 2009 - Regg'ain Fest Segny, France with Buddha Monk from Wu-Tang Clan, Aya Waska, Blue Eyes, Kya Bamba and Charly-B
- 2009 - Etablis Massongy, France with Charly-B
- 2009 - Théatre de Verdure Divonne, France
- 2009 - Fête de la Musique, Ferney-Voltaire
- 2010 - Festival Success-Prod 2010 Divonne, Sergent Garcia and NajaVibes
- 2010 - Step By Straight Festival Gex, France with Scred Connexion
- 2010 - New-Chene Club Night St-Genis Pouilly, France with Afu-Ra
- 2010 - New-Chene Club Night St-Genis Pouilly, France with Blacko from Sniper
- 2010 - SickBoys Prod Combloux, France
- 2011 - 01 Soundklash Ferney-Voltaire, France with Tiwony
- 23.04.2011 - Festival Succes Prod 2011 Divonne, France with Daddy Mory and Big Red from RaggaSonic
- 14.05.2011 - Le Rouge et Noir, Lausanne, Switzerland
Notes and references
- 1.^ BIMM Website
- 2.^ Doze's Official Website
- 3.^ AIN Gigs Agenda
- 4.^ Reggae Europe official website
- 5.^ Pays de Gex info Blog
- 6.^ Biography of Julien Courtois
- 7.^ Interview of DOZE on RapFact Radio
- 8.^ Scred Connexion info page
External links
Categories:- Living people
- 1991 births
- Hiphop musicians
- French musicians
- Italian musicians
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