Holiday Remixed: Reworked Classics And Originals From The Mistletoe Lounge CD

Born on the south side of Chicago, I was raised by both parents. We lived on the southeast, south central and the southwest sides of the inner city. Mom and Dad did the best they could, trying to cultivate three decent young boys and a young girl, in the midst of squalor environments that contained a plethora of violence. Fighting one another inside the house ironically sharpened our skills to overcome the fights we encountered during grade school and high school. After graduation, feeling the need to leave Chicago I attended a University in Louisiana. The brawls were much larger there and I eventually got kicked out of the University after only 4 months of attending. I came home and entered the U. S. Air Force. The forth day of basic training I chose to test into the Air Force Special Forces Selection Course. I endured a rigorous twelve weeks of training that began with 85 men. At graduation, there were only eight men standing! I was the first African-American to pass the selection course in ten years, in 1994. I also became the eighth black man ever to pass the selection course, which spanned a fifty-year period at that time. Two years later I was kicked out of the Air Force due to fighting and underage drinking.

Clive started producing music at the beginning of the new millennium after discovering a basic music package featuring exciting dance loops on the front of a magazine. Soon after he joined an internet based mp3 site & discovered that the world of 'invisible musicians & artists' was a friendly place to inhabit.

Clive adopted the artist person of Spyda in memory of his big black tom cat. "He was so gorgeous, big & strong, most people thought he was a miniature black panther", he says. Spyda is well known for his remixing & production skills & has worked on tracks by BT, Conjure One, The Chemical Brothers, Filo & Peri, Harland, Distorted Reality & t.A.T.u. to name but a few. Spyda is also willing to collaborate & produce with other artists & vocalists, so why not get in touch soon via his web site at spyda-music.

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