Biography
Kyle Julian Hall was Born July 17th 1991 on the West side of Detroit Michigan. Since birthKyle Hall has always been attached and surrounded by music. He had no choice, ever sincehe was in his mothers stomach his ears were in tune to the sounds of his mother (PennyWells) singing. Both his Aunt his mother are both Jazz vocalist, his Aunt Tia Imani Hanna is aviolinist, his Great aunt Georgia Davis was a famous opera singer and his Late great unclewas the world renowned Sir Roland Hanna. Music wa...
Kyle Julian Hall was Born July 17th 1991 on the West side of Detroit Michigan. Since birthKyle Hall has always been attached and surrounded by music. He had no choice, ever sincehe was in his mothers stomach his ears were in tune to the sounds of his mother (PennyWells) singing. Both his Aunt his mother are both Jazz vocalist, his Aunt Tia Imani Hanna is aviolinist, his Great aunt Georgia Davis was a famous opera singer and his Late great unclewas the world renowned Sir Roland Hanna. Music was in this Child's DNA. One way oranother he was bound to be immersed in music. In Kyle’s early years he was exposed tovarious forms of music. This gave him a very eclectic and non-discriminating view of music.He feels that true soul music is the expression of ones own feeling no matter genre it is.That’s why to day when you see him perform he’s known to mix various genres of music intoone cohesive set. The way the Young Prodigy got in to electronic music was through hismother’s old High school friend who is known in Detroit as one of the baddest house, DjsRaybone Jones. Ray took Kyle under his wing and taught him the history of the music, healso taught Kyle how to spin. From that time on at the age of 11 he was hooked. As timewent on he got his own set of turntables and he practiced everyday after school until hismother told him it was to late and to turn it down. Even then Kyle listened to the records inhis headphones and kept going until 6 or 7 A.M. Music gave Kyle a sense of determinationand purpose. While all the other kids in the neighborhood outside Playing Basketball orcausing trouble, Kyle was in his bedroom cutting up cassette tapes and mixing records. Eventually he made the natural progression from just playing records to trying to makerecords. Kyle was highly influenced and captivated by the Underground Deep House soundDetroit. Kyle would listen to Detroit artist Like Theo Parrish, Mike Huckaby, Rick Wade, 3chairs, KDJ and Omar S. To Kyle the music they were making was touching another level.Their music had a certain feeling of the advant garde and liberation from the so-called rulespeople place upon dance music. Kyle took that principle of their music and applied it to musicthat he was trying to create.Eventually these Artist’s Kyle looked up to as influential became his friends also. Kyle endedup meeting Rick Wilhite of the 3 chairs through a mutual friend who told him about Rick’srecord store vibes in Oak Park. Ever sense that trip to the record store Kyle and Rick havebecome good friends. Through Rick, Kyle was personally introduced to the DetroitUnderground House music scene. With this Happening Kyle became even more ignited withdetermination. In 2005 Kyle met Detroit Deep House Legend Mike Huckaby. Kyle met Mikeat a Youth recreation center called Youthville. Mike was teaching a class on the musicproduction software Native Instruments Reaktor 5. There Kyle formed a relationship withmike. Mike taught Kyle a great deal about signal flow and synthesis. He served as a greatKnowledge base for all of the million and one question Kyle had regarding the technicalaspect of Music production. One day Kyle gave Mike a mix CD he had done. Mike thoughtthe CD was Dope. He couldn’t believe a 14 year old could bang like that! So mike decided hewanted to get him on the radio. Mike was in charge of booking DJ’s to play on Detroit’s latenight house music show club insomnia and also he had his own show on CJAM 91.5 inCanada. Needless to say Kyle was featured on both shows which further showcased histalent as a producer and DJ. In the span of 2 years, more and more people started to become aware of Kyle's talent, evensoftware companies. In May 2007 Propellersheads wanted to promote its software onChannel 4 News, for Detroit's electronic music festival. So Kyle was asked if was interestedin doing Demonstrations for the product and of course he complied. Days later Kyle went tohis friends the 3 Chair's, DEMF after party. There he got a chance to see one of his favoritetechno artists Omar S. play. After hours upon hours of dancing Kyle decided to sit down takea break. Little did he know something was about to happen that was going to change hisfuture. Omar, after his set was over he came up to young Kyle and said "What up Nig,YourKyle right?". From that point on Kyle and Omar were cool. A few weeks after DEMF Omartold Kyle he was interested in putting out Kyle’s music out on his own E.p. Bam! October2007 the Plastik Ambash E.p. was born. As of today at age 16 Kyle has been Djaying aroundDetroit doing things from clubs to youth events. Kyle's Main goal in Life is to spreadKnowledge and inspiration through his music and his journey has already started. Expectmany great exciting things from this young Detroit Prodigy for years to come As of August 29th 2008,Detroit Based House Label Moods and Grooves has released Kyle Hall's Second EP. Entitled "The Water is Fine"
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