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Hak Daddy aka Haka Benitez aka Haknando Torres
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Hak Daddy aka Haka Benitez aka Haknando Torres's Interests
General
Football; Movies; Music; Travelling; Computer Games; Gym; Reading; chilling with my friends; playing with my son & sleeping!
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"
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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
Hak Daddy aka Haka Benitez aka Haknando Torres's Details
Hak Daddy aka Haka Benitez aka Haknando Torres's Blurbs
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).
Who 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 hakdaddy@ntlworld.com or http://hakdaddy.hi5.com
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Hey Hak, Hope you have been well, how's the everything going? I have two new radio shows on Blaze 106.4fm every Wednesday evening 7-9pm and Saturdays 4-6pm...be sure to check them out and if you have any music or news that you would like me to share with my listeners, just let me know. Stay Blessed, AmyLola x
Your more than welcome sir... yeh defo must hook up soon! Will holla:-) Hey the end of March sat 29th is a gig u can come to at Rex 2 hear me play its gonna be a fly nite..so holla!!
booo hoo..... i know its been a long ass time since i passed .... so long i dropped off the rankings! nah wats good tho? hopework aint wearing you down