D'Angelos produsent og manager er død

D'Angelos tidligere manager og produsent Dominique Trenier er død.

Trenier ble funnet død i sitt hjem i Los Angeles om morgenen fredag (5. august). Dødsårsaken er ennå ikke blitt offentliggjort.

Som Billboard rapporterer produserte Trenier D'Angelos hitalbum Voodoo, mens han også satt bak miksebordet under innspillingen av Seals cover av Steve Millers klassiker Fly Like An Eagle. Låta ble co-produsert av R. Kelly og var å finne på soundtracket til 90-tallsfilmen 'Space Jam'.

Produsenten arbeidet også sammen med engelske Mark Ronson på Here Comes The Fuzz, og på Billboard-hiten Everybody Got Their Something av Nikka Costa.

Blant dem som minnes Trenier på sosiale medier er Questlove, som har postet et bilde av sin venn på Instagram og skrevet: "Trenier. Så mye visdom. Så lite tid."

 

Trenier. So Much Wisdom. So Little Time.

Et billede slået op af Questlove Gomez (@questlove) den 4. Aug 2016 kl. 11:31 PDT

Mark Ronson har lagt ut tre bilder med en lengre tekst. Her skriver han blant annet: "Jeg kan spore nesten alle viktige tingene som har skjedd i min karriere tilbake til ham."

Han tilføyer: "I en stor del av mitt liv var Dominique Trenier en av mine nærmeste venner. Han var også min musikalske mentor, de ørene jeg stolte mest på og min tidligste helt."

 

Words for Dom Part 1 For a good chunk of my life, Dominique Trenier was one of my very closest friends. He was also my musical mentor, my most trusted set of ears and my earliest champion. At 24 years old, I was just a downtown kid playing records at trendy hip hop clubs. One Friday night, he came up to my booth in the VIP room at Life and said, “Yo, i got this girl. She’s got an incredible voice…really incredible. Anyway, i don’t know what the album’s supposed to sound like exactly, but i want it to feel like one of your [DJ] sets. You know, EPMD, AC/DC, Chaka Khan…Biggie, all that shit”. I was both psyched and incredibly flattered. Dom was a already a bit of a downtown icon. His music cred was nuts. He worked with D’Angelo & rolled with Puffy, Russell and Andre. His charisma was off the chain, all types of people were drawn to him (i think he was holding court with Chris Rock & Rick Rubin that night). And most recognisably, he had this crazy raspy voice that sounded like he’d been gargling razor blades since the age of 6. Nobody knew how his voice got that way. Like Seal’s scars, one morning he apparently just awoke that way. And the fact that a young black man could have the same throaty timbre of a 70 year Jew from Brooklyn only added to the legend of “Exotic Dom”. A few weeks later, he introduced me to the “girl”—Nikka Costa. And over the next two years, under Dom’s musical guidance, Nikka, her husband Justin and I produced Nikka’s debut album—which in turn led to me getting my first album deal with Elektra. Also, being a walking charm factory, Dom always knew the best people to hang with in every city. The time we visited London, Dom says, “Yo. My friend Jade said the flyest club night is tonight. It’s called YOYO. We’re going”. That night, I met Leo Greenslade & Seb Chew. Through my incredible friendship with them and playing their night YOYO over the years, among other wonderful things, I met Lily Allen. Dom also introduced me to Guy Moot at an early Nikka gig in London. A few years later, Guy sent Amy Winehouse to my studio in NY to see if we would click musically. I can trace most every important thing that happened in my career back to his hand

Et billede slået op af Mark Ronson (@iammarkronson) den 5. Aug 2016 kl. 4:41 PDT