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7th Wonder, artistic name of Telmo César Campos, was born on the 7th of July 1990, in Luanda, Angola. He is a music producer (Beatmaker).
In spite of the fact that is name is written as 7th, it is pronounced as seven wonder. The choice of his artistic name is due to his date of birth, which is on the 7th of July.
His father is Domingos Francisco Campos and his mother is Antónia Dias Cardoso Campos. He came to live in Lisbon (Portugal) in 1993, with his parents and his sister, two years younger than him. He is still living in Lisbon up to today.
Only after 15 years living in Portugal, 7th Wonder had the opportunity to visit his hometown.
7th lived with his family in varies locations, among them Carcavelos (Cascais), where he stayed for a long period until the Summer of 2000; then, he moved to Leceia (Oeiras), where he lived until 2012.
He moves to Monte Abrão (Sintra), where he stayed about 2 years, and then goes back to Leceia, where he is still living until this moment.
The first element of the Hip Hop culture which he had contact with was the graffiti, when he was 11 years old; this is something he developed until 2010. He worked on his draws always in the paper, never exposed them on the walls.
Around 2006, he starts feeling like expressing himself throught the lyrics (Rap) and, because he didn’t have instrumentals, he started producing with Fruity Loops Studio.
He did some freestyles with his older brothers and even recorded a song, produced by himself, in the studio (not professional) of Fernando Rodrigues “Pofo” (Rapper, Tattooer, Writer), who he got to know through Jaime Pereira (Kallisto).
Jaime Pereira (Kallisto), Producer, Rapper, Designer e CEO from Olimpo Label, was his main mentor. Some years later he met another mentor, Ricardo Abreu (E.R.R.E.), Rapper, Producer, Developer and CEO of Mad Doggz.
E.R.R.E. showed him another DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), ProperllerHead Reason, which is the software he has been using.
7th Wonder used firstly samples but, after acquiring a midi keyboard, started to play and to create his own melodies, using virtual instruments.
Today he uses samples and virtual instruments, sometimes separated or other times combined. He would like to expand to real instruments (Piano, Guitar, Bass).
He had several musical influences. The ones that better aroused his interest were the productions of DJ Premier, 9th Wonder (also one of the reasons for his artistic name)
and J Dilla. These references helped him to define his own style.
After a while, started to have artists recording in his productions; in 2010 made his first compilation “Livre Diversidade” with 5 tracks released by BeatBox Record.
He kept producing singles and collaborating with other artists. This allowed him to meet more artists and more about the Hip Hop culture and about Africa.
Through his productions, 7th met Karlon (founder of Nigga Poison), and in 2015 he participated in Karlon’s solo album “Meskalina” with 5 productions.
In 2016, the whole production of the Sentinela disc “Raízes” allowed him to work with artists from Angola.
He is a member, as a producer, of the Olimpo Label (Angola), Mad Doggz (Portugal/UK) and Mobb Beat (Portugal).
7th Wonder has a positive philosophy “Do You Got Do”, which means that we should do what it takes to achieve our dreams and "Paka Mawazo Musuri" wich means only positive vibes in swahili (African Language).
Music is his life.
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