Nellee Hooper

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Nellee Hooper

Background information
Origin Bristol, England
Genre(s) Trip-hop, Electronica
Associated
acts		 The Wild Bunch

Nellee Hooper is a British producer/remixer/composer best-known for his work with Björk, No Doubt, Madonna, Gwen Stefani, Garbage, U2, Sneaker Pimps, Soul II Soul and Massive Attack. He has been behind some of the most successful and inventive dance pop music throughout the late 1980s and on through the 1990s and to the present. He also debuted as a motion picture music composer with famed Scottish composer Craig Armstrong and Marius De Vries for the soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet in 1996.

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[edit] Biography

Nellee Hooper in The Wild Bunch.
Nellee Hooper in The Wild Bunch.

Born in Bristol, England, Hooper began his career as a DJ and as a member of the Wild Bunch, the Bristol-based group that would turn into Massive Attack.

Between 1989 and 1992 he produced the debut albums for Soul II Soul (Club Classics Vol. I), Massive Attack (Blue Lines) and Björk (Debut), which in 1995 Mixmag magazine ranked the 31st, 1st and 3rd best dance albums of all time.

The 1995 Brit Awards honored Hooper as Best Producer for his work on Massive Attack's Protection, Björk's Post and Madonna's Bedtime Stories albums.

In 1998 he won a BAFTA Award (Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music) for his work arranging the score and soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet.

Hooper in the late 1990s set up the Meanwhile imprint, which is a subsidiary of Virgin Records.

Hooper continued to work steadily into the 2000s. He received a Grammy nomination in 2003 for his work on No Doubt's Rock Steady and Lamya's Learning From Falling albums. His other work has included producing the singles "GoldenEye" (1995) for Tina Turner, "Under the Bridge" (1998) for All Saints and "Down Boy" (2002) for Holly Valance, as well as providing remixes for artists like Janet Jackson and Sade.

Most recently he has worked with Gwen Stefani on her solo albums and on U2's 2004 release How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. He also just wrapped up producing the forthcoming solo album of Andrea Corr of The Corrs, entitled Ten Feet High which is scheduled for release early summer 2007.

[edit] Romeo + Juliet Score

See also: Romeo + Juliet Soundtrack

Nellee Hooper was responsible for the BAFTA award-winning soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet in 1996. He worked alongside Scottish composer Craig Armstrong and English composer Marius van Wyk de Vries. It was Hooper's first and only motion picture score. Hooper armed the soundtrack with sequences of bombastic choral and flamboyant orchestral forces and fusing it with his well-known hip-hop, trip-hop and electronica genres. Hooper also coordinated well with Armstrong with several key violin symphonies, including Slow Movement and Death Scene. Hooper since has not been active in the motion picture industry.

[edit] Selected production credits

[edit] External links

Nellee Hooper at the Internet Movie Database
Biography at Allmusic
Biography at Discogs
Nellee Hooper on VH1
Filmography on Yahoo! Movies
Nellee Hooper on Music.com

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