Robert Del Naja
English musician and graffiti artist (born 1965)
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- Robert Del Naja ( ; born 21 January 1965), also known as 3D , is an English artist, musician, singer,songwriter and a graffiti artist.
- In 2009, he received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.
- He is one of the founding members of Bristol trip hop collective Massive Attack, with Daddy G (Grant Marshall), Tricky (Adrian Thaws) and Andrew Vowles, as a music producer and the only vocalist to feature on all their albums and EPs.
- From 1997 to 1998, Del Naja was the band's main producer in the recording sessions that made Mezzanine , Massive Attack's most commercially successful album, selling nearly 4 million copies, with Neil Davidge as a sound engineer.
- Del Naja has co-written a number of film scores and tracks for films with Neil Davidge and with Euan Dickinson.
Robert Del Naja (; born 21 January 1965), also known as 3D, is an English artist, musician, singer,songwriter and a graffiti artist. He emerged as a graffiti artist and member of the Bristol collective the Wild Bunch, and later as a founding member and sole consistent member of the band Massive Attack, with which he is still active. In 2009, he received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.
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Del Naja started rapping with the Wild Bunch in Bristol in the mid-1980s. He is one of the founding members of Bristol trip hop collective Massive Attack, with Daddy G (Grant Marshall), Tricky (Adrian Thaws) and Andrew Vowles, as a music producer and the only vocalist to feature on all their albums and EPs. The band received critical acclaim with their first album Blue Lines, released in 1991.
From 1997 to 1998, Del Naja was the band's main producer in the recording sessions that made Mezzanine, Massive Attack's most commercially successful album, selling nearly 4 million copies, with Neil Davidge as a sound engineer.
In addition to his work with Massive Attack, he provided vocals to "Invasion" on Unkle's album Never, Never, Land, and "Twilight" on War Stories.
Del Naja has co-written a number of film scores and tracks for films with Neil Davidge and with Euan Dickinson. "Herculaneum", the title track for Italian director Matteo Garrone's 2008 award-winning film Gomorrah, based on the book by Roberto Saviano about organised crime in Naples, received the prize for best song at the David Di Donatello Awards.
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