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R.A.P.P. Quelle next guest on ArtOvation, September 4th
By ArtOvation
Sep 2, 2010 - 11:50:30 AM

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Nassau, Bahamas - ArtOvation with TaDa is a weekly one-hour radio show covering Issues, interviews and introspection related to the developing and emerging arts and entertainment industries of the Bahamas.

This Saturday, September 4th at 8am tune in to ArtOvation with TaDa on Star 106FM. International Hip Hop artist, Rapp Quelle will be on the show.

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Rappquelle stands for “revered automatic powerful poet”. The young and ambitious artist who describes his music as “everybody music that everyone can feel and get in touch with” has been in the biz for 3 years. Growing up in Nassau, Bahamas Rappquelle, whose real name is Quentin Glover, nourished his love for music from a young age and he still has a special love for old music by artists such as Nita Simone and bass player Jaco Patorius.

The young artist started taking his music more serious after he graduated from High School in 2001, but was exposed to a lot of music as a child by his parents. In 2002 Rappquelle moved to Freeport, Grand Bahama where he worked with Cyclone Entertainment and some local artists such as Kevin Fox and Jah Hem, whom he wrote songs for. Rappquelle, who sees his music as a representation of the globalized world is focusing primarily on hip hop music but he is no stranger to reggae. He has recorded a song with Ky-Mani Marley.

In the end of 2002 Rappquelle moved to Miami, where he continued to write and record music with a variety of artists such as Mecca Grimo, he did spoken word performances and also gained work experience in music promotions. Due to circumstances the young artist decided to take a break from the music business but after a year he returned, unable to ignore his main talent, passion and drive to make it as an artist. Rappquelle returned to the studio, inspired by artists such as Talib Kwele, an artist who keeps the essential core and roots of what rap is and stand for intact while evolving and changing with time.

As a person Quentin Glover has admiration for Mahatma Ghandi, whose philosophies have had an influence on Quentin’s life. Ghandi managed to have a calming message in tumultuous and heated situations and times. This ideal often also balances out Rappquelle’s music, which in the contrary to the pacifist Ghandi is often more aggressive. Rappquelle returned to his native Nassau in December 2007 to gain recognition in his homeland and to build a fanbase in the Bahamas. His fans before were in Sweden, Denmark and Florida, to name a few of the countries, but the respect from home was a missing link.

Some of Rappquelle’s releases since then include “Stand Up” and “Death Before Dishonour”. His songs and music are slowly being recognized in the Bahamas, even though he likes to go “against the flow” as he expresses it. Rappquelle still feels that the music industry in the Bahamas is moving without actually going anywhere, which is slowly changing. Rappquelle says he is “very proud to be part of this time and generation”, a new generation of artists who have the chance to take the music to another level and gain world recognition.