Ronald Jenkees

Ronald Jenkees is an American composer and arranger, who became known primarily through YouTube.

Biography

By his own account, he began at the age of four years playing music when he was given by his parents during a hospital stay a keyboard. On this keyboard, he learned simple melodies and played with friends. During the seventh grade, he took piano lessons, but this is not proved to be successful. Nevertheless, he played on his new Yamaha PSR -500 further and started to use the sequencer and layer functions of the keyboard, with the results which he created hip- hop music. In the high school made ​​him the head of the Spielmannszug, although he was not able to read music, compose his own keyboard pieces. In this case, it was also suggested to deal with the understanding of notes.

New enthusiasm aroused in him the program FL Studio to publish with which he began under the pseudonym Big Cheez since 2003, first pieces. Under this name he produced in 2005, the album straight laced. of Fish. In 2006, Ronald began first videos of himself to post on YouTube, which were initially intended only as fun. Later he also published first pieces of which had some surprisingly great success and several million were able to record calls. He was supported by Attack of the Show! ( AOTS ) and the magazine Paste. The breakthrough came when Bill Simmons of ESPN.com reported about him and suggesting him to conduct their own podcast.

In 2007 he published as a freelance artist his first studio album Ronald Jenkees. This has become increasingly known, he appeared in June 2009 on the album PeaceBlaster: with The New Orleans Make It Right Remixes by STS9 and created a remix of Beyond Right Now. On 31 July 2009, he released his second album, Disorganized Fun. After 3 years of absence on November 30, 2012 he released his new album Days Away.

Style

He plays mainly on the keyboard and the rhythms created by a sequencer. Musically covered most of his pieces in the range of techno and rock, where he also repeatedly can incorporate their own raps.

Discography

Albums

  • 2005: straight laced. Fish (as Big Cheez )
  • 2007: Ronald Jenkees
  • 2009: Disorganized Fun
  • 2012: Days Away
Music sequencer Hip hop music Highschool Rock music
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