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ChAnGeR's CD Release Party - September 11th, 2009!!


Hip-hop is a game - and it's time for a game-changer. Make that a game-ChAnGeR.

ChAnGeR. The Single Father Hip-Hoppa. Born of French, Scots and Aboriginal roots, bred on the streets of the gritty city (Hamilton, Ontario) ChAnGeR represents an uncommon attitude in hip-hop - a new sound, a new point of view. A single father since the age of seventeen, ChAnGeR is a different voice in a genre where so many voices are exactly the damn same.

ChAnGeR has had a passion for music since he was only five years old. Even more passionate in his teen years, ChAnGeR studied the music and honed his skills while writing, producing and performing in his rap group "The SystemEyed."

In 2003, he founded his home studio and took a second look at his artistry. It was time to get serious. It was time to make a change.

Music for ChAnGeR is more than just a party. It's the medicine that heals, the vent through which he expresses the frustrations, pride, hectic accomplishments and disappointments of being a single father in a cold hard world. He has spent most of 2009 focused on his mission - to release his upcoming album, "The Single Father."

It isn't easy to hear where ChAnGeR's sound comes from, because he imitates no one. He finds influence in artists as disparate as KRS-ONE, Eminem, Justin Timberlake, AC/DC and Big Pun; Dre, Primo, Timbaland, and the RZA/Wu. Musicians aren't his only influences. He's just as influenced by an actor/director like Sylvester Stallone, or an author like Napoleon Hill, who wrote ChAnGeR's favourite book, "Think And Grow Rich." Re-reading that book consistently, and reworking his own ideas and ideals, has helped keep him focused, driven and grounded. That drive has helped him craft his own signature sound, combining the street bounce of Dre with the raw beats of Premier, laying down rhymes that range from silly to serious.

In hip-hop, too many artists sound the same, both musically and lyrically. ChAnGeR switches it up on both sides, with fresh beats and a fresh perspective. He writes for the perspective he knows - a working artist in a middle-class town, sharing a one-bedroom apartment with his nine-year-old son. "Dead Beat Mom," for example, is like a mission statement. ChAnGeR illuminates the single father's point of view. He has seen both sides of justice in the family courts - giving up custody of his daughter when he was a teen, and recently gaining custody of his son. The biases of the court system (structured to favor mother's rights over father's rights), the challenges of raising a child alone - and maintaining an artist vision at the same time - are all part of this young father's point of view.

Check out his 2005 "trial" album "The Single Father HipHoppa" at www.cdbaby.com/changer. ChAnGeR's new company "ChAnGeR Productions" has produced a video for his lead single, "When I Touch You" .

ChAnGeR drops the debut on September 8, 2009. Take a listen for yourself at www.changerproductions.com.