Ameen Harron is one of the most exciting musical talents of his generation. His
life-long fascination with music has pushed him to acquire knowledge and skills in a multitude of fields within the broad
spectrum of musical accomplishments.
Ameen became interested in the
art of DJ-ing at the age of 12, but was loath to restrict himself within any one genre and used the turntables to reflect
his eclectic musical interest. The nature of being a DJ honed his ability to break down all music into its constituent parts
and his DJ-ing became more than just playing other peoples music, now Ameen was using the punk, hip hop and various electronic
musical genres that he loved and crafting his own sound.
At 14 Ameen
began dabbling in music production on his PC and it is in the act of musical creation that he has found his niche, beyond
his skills as a DJ, Ameen is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist (guitar, piano, drums, bass, percussion and flute) and
has also been formally trained as a sound engineer.
While he is
still a young man, Ameen has built up an impressive body of work, having produced hit tracks on several projects by top
flight urban artists in South Africa, he has featured as a producer on an international collaborative album project which
brought together artists from Italy, Slovakia, Holland, Germany, Tanzania, Malawi, Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa, and
is currently working with veteran South African pop artists and up and coming rock/metal bands as well as still maintaining
strong links with South African hip hop.
Not content with just being
the producer everybody wants to work with, Ameen has nurtured a long running project as an artists under the name W.I.M.P.
(What. I.'M. Pheeling) were he has explored and developed by experimenting with the blending of a variety of sounds.
Ameen Harron has become a force to be reckoned with in South African music, having
garnered attention as a producer but also recently as one of the faces of one of the fastest growing urban clothing labels
in the west of South Africa F.O.C. (Fraternity Of Cape streets).
With
much anticipation for his upcoming producer album project within South African hip hop and interest from artists around
Africa and soon Europe, at this point the only possible direction for this exciting young man is up.