Roger McKenzie
Wild Child is a pseudonym of a British music producer Roger McKenzie (born 1971 in Southampton, Hampshire, † November 25, 1995, ibid ). He had with the single Renegade Master '98 until after his death, his greatest commercial success.
Career
Roger McKenzie grew up in Southampton, before moving to Brighton in 1991. There he worked as an underground house DJ and released four EPs called Wildtrax, his first own productions as Wild Child in 'Loaded Records'.
1995 succeeded with Legends of the Dark Black - Part Two for the first time the jump in Top 40 on the British charts ( No. 34 ), the piece Renegade Master contained therein reached a few months later as an independent single release even 11th place founded in this period McKenzie also his own label 'Dark Black Recordings'. Together with his manager Donna Snell he tried to gain a foot in New York, before he died on November 25, 1995 of a heart attack. His biggest commercial success he did not live.
For the track Jump to My Beat, the end of 1996 stood at number 30 in the UK charts, McKenzie had worked with Todd Terry. Also appeared posthumously in a custom built by Fatboy Slim Remix 1997 by Renegade Master, who in 1998 reached number 3 in the UK and number 88 on the German charts at the beginning of the year and became the biggest hit of Wild Child. Bad Boy was in April 1998, the last work McKenzies, which could achieve a chart listing in the United Kingdom ( 38th ).