Gene King

Gene King

Artist Biography

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Gene King AKA Genetix
Growing up in Montreal during the 70’s and the 80’s, Gene was influenced by a lot of sounds from his environment such as Calypso, Reggae, Latin, Soul and Rock.
Being surrounded by music all the time gave him the urge to learn to play an instrument. In 1978, Gene discovered DJing and started playing high school dances and The Skadium roller rink, at the age of 13.

From 1982 to 1987, he played at various dance clubs all over Montreal and then Relocated to Toronto in 1987, Gene played at smaller clubs and special events, until working steady gigs, doing parties for local promoters & working bigger clubs in the city.

On the Production side, from 1991 to the present, Gene King has remixed and produced music for numerous labels like: Contraband, A&M;, BMG, KMS, Defender, Slip N’Slide, Debut, Hi-Bias, Warner , Easy Street, Ultrasound ,Philosophie Music Detroit , Priti Soul/Jellybean Records in NYC and the Legendary 157 Shelter Records in New York City.
In 1993 he co-founded Contraband records with Carlos Clarke and had top ten dance hit in Canada with Kairene’s I need a Man which was later licensed to Radikal Records in the US
In October 2005 He founded Shines Records which later on spawned another label Plusgroove records . Putting out favourites like “Sunrise-Genetix Ft. Shanchoy, Suges ft Limore –Do with You and many others….

While busy in the studio and Djing at the downtown clubs, Gene also became a programmer for CKLN.88.1 FM radio station in 1993 – DJ’ing for Midnight Madness, now known as Soul Fusion Express. A year after the name change, Gene King started his own show, Vibes N’ Vinyl ,which airs every Friday night/Saturday Morning on the same station and can be heard at http://www.netmusique.com and http://www.motionfm.com online every weekdays from 3PM to 6PM.
Gene is Currently working on remixes and production for artists Darnell Kendricks , C.9ine and Stephanie Cook for releases on Dubai’s Rasani Records, 157 Shelter Records , Consortium Muzik Chicago and BBB South Africa.

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