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Rupert
"Gypsy" Bent III
Producer, Multi-Instrumentalist,
Writer/Composer |
RUPERT BENT III
GYPSY MUSIC, CEO,
Producer, Multi-Instrumentalist, Writer/Composer;
Musical Director for SEAN PAUL; and ON QUE PRODUCTIONS,
Partner, Technical Director
Rupert
Bent is a Grammy nominated musician, songwriter,
producer and engineer. GYPSY MUSIC, owned and operated
by Rupert “Gypsy” Bent, has been offering artistes and
audiences consistently top quality production and an
alternative to the traditional Jamaican music genres
since 1991. Bent is also the Musical Director for
international Grammy Winning Artiste, Sean Paul.
ON QUE
PRODUCTIONS is a video and audio production company in
Kingston, Jamaica, owned and operated by Rupert Bent
(Technical Director) and Ian Gibson (Managing Director).
On Que Productions has the Caribbean's only 48-track
mobile digital recording studio, with live digital
recording credits including the Cricket World Cup
2007 Opening Ceremony, the annual Air
Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, and Reggae
Sumfest.
After
having toured, performed, produced, engineered, and
written for countless artistes worldwide, Bent designed
and personally built the Gypsy Music Recording Studio -
a
state of the art Nuendo 3 production facility capable of
5.1 audio post production and post sync for music, video
and film. Post-production work for video and audio
projects is done in the Gypsy Music Recording studio
- a fully equipped MIDI, and Digital
Audio production facility, where Bent also creates and
produces music for recording artistes, as well as, radio
and television jingles and documentary soundtracks.
Visit his website
www.gypsymusic.com.jm for samples of his work.
Rupert
has started a line of Jamaican edu-tainment products for
children, through his company, Reggae Pickney,
which combines early childhood educational themes in
delightful stories featuring the best reggae musicians
and artistes. The flagship product, a CD Storybook
entitled, “Shaggy Parrot and the Reggae Band”
features the voice of Shaggy and the music of
Sean Paul’s touring band, Badda Banz, led by
Rupert. This product has been officially added to
the Jamaican Early Childhood Education Curriculum
Resource List and is available in Jamaican stores and on
the website
www.reggaepickney.com
ADDITIONAL PRODUCING AND SONGWRITING
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Produced and Co-Wrote the song, “No Bad Mind” placed
on the CW11 television
series “Privileged”
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Co-Wrote and Produced the song “Time Goes On” on the
re-release of Sean Paul’s 2006 Album, ‘The
Trinity’.
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Co-wrote and Co-Produced the Polygram-Mercury hit
song "Forbidden Love" performed by Third World
on the 'Serious Business' album.
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Co-Produced, Co-Wrote, Performed and Co-Engineered
on the Grammy nominated Third World album,
'Generation Coming'.
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Worked alongside Sly Dunbar and Robbie
Shakespeare in production and recording of
East-West (France) Records Artiste, Viktor Lazlo, at
the Compass Point Studio in Nassau, Bahamas.
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Co-wrote, Produced, Engineered and released under
the Gypsy Music label, the hit singles, "You So
Fine" (2001), by Jana Bent, “No Regrets” by
Jana Bent and Bounty Killer, as well as
Jana’s debut album, 'Chase The Sun', which was named
Album of the Year for 1999 by the Observer
Newspaper, and her second album, “Shadow Girl”,
which is currently being distributed in Europe and
has earned her a International Publishing
Administration deal.
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Scored the major Musical Theatre Production
"Arawak Gold".
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Co-wrote the song "Beautiful Friday" for Capitol
Records' singer, Andru
Donalds.
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Produced and Recorded music for Sean Paul; Damian
Marley; Third World's album, 'Live It Up':
"Magnet and Steel" and "Spare Me The Blues";
Jimmy Cliff: "Rebel in Me"; Gregory Isaacs:
"Rumours"; Burning Spear; Toots Hibbert;
J.C. Lodge; Thriller U; Mile High; The Itals; Junior
Tucker; Lovindeer; Mystic Revealers; Richie
Stephens; Thriller U; Sabre; Prezident Brown and
many others.
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