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Martin Renaud - Unix Endorser
 Born: May 5th 1966
Started playing drums: Age 4
1982: Studied Jazz with Montreal drum teacher Maurice Métayé.
1985 to 1990: Joined the rock band “MOZART”.
- This included many recording gigs and a Canadian tours under Paul Lévesque Management Company in 1988. Mozart also worked with producer Pierre “Bazz” Bazzinet who produce Céline Dion album “Incognito” in the late 80’s.
1990: Studied at MUSITECHNIC and taught drums in Montreal.
1991-1996: Joined the Ottawa based rock band “US”.
- Martin’s first gig with the band was to record their 2nd CD, titled US, in NY, at the well known studio The Club House. This experience allowed him to meet and work with Van Morrison guitare player Jonh Platonia.
The Club House studio also has to its credit the credentials of Eddie Kramer, who produced many Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Hendrix albums.
US toured North America for 5 years from Michigan to The Keys and NY to LA under the Budweiser marketing program. This allowed US to play with and meet bands such as Fleetwood Mac, Aerosmith, Jefferson Airplane, Tesla, Warrant, Kansas, America, Bad Company and many other major acts.
Martin was endorsed by Sabian cymbals and by Duratech drum sticks, for which he did some R&D work to develop a polymer drum stick for rock drummers. He also did clinics for his sponsors in the USA.
In 1994 Martin brought the band to LA to record US's 3rd CD called Live at Leeds. Le Mobile Studio, owned by Guy Charbonneau, recorded and produced the CD with the help of Peter Frampton’s studio and also Pat Benetar’s guitar player and husband, Neil Geraldo, as a co-producer.
- 1996: Worked on a National Geographic project with friend, sound engineer and co owner of studio SPR (Montreal based studio), Jean-Pierre Bissonnette. They won a GEMEAU for this project for best sound in all categories.
- Produced a project band called Cloud Ten, which allowed him to experiment with complex time signatures.
2004: Joined IN THE LIGHT and HIDDEN HEROS. These 2 projects are currently keeping Martin busy live and in the studio.
2007: Is presently endorsed by Unix Drum Company.
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