1. Hugo Justin Race was born on 23 May 1963 and is an Australian rock musician and record producer who had been based in Europe from 1989 to 2011.
12 Facts About Hugo Race
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Hugo Race was a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and The Wreckery with Nick Barker and Robin Casinader.
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Hugo Justin Race was born in the early 1960s in Melbourne and grew up in an Anglo-Irish family.
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Hugo Race's father listened to musical theatre and classical music, his mother played piano, he has brothers and a sister.
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Back in 1986 Hugo Race had a minor role, Pierre, in Dogs in Space, which was directed by Richard Lowenstein and starred Michael Hutchence and Saskia Post.
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In 1988 Hugo Race had his own starring role as the titular character of Mack the Knife who is a "sociopath"; the film was released as In Too Deep.
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Late in 1989 Hugo Race relocated to Europe, initially to London then living in Berlin, Germany.
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Hugo Race was joined in the studio by Alex Hacke on guitar and slide guitar ; Chris Hughes on tabla ; John Molineux on harmonica; Rainer Lingk on banjo, guitar and bass guitar; and Thomas Wydler on drums.
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Hugo Race used a similar line up to record his next album, Second Revelator, with additional work by former bandmate Harvey on piano, organ, bass guitar, backing vocals, percussion and as producer.
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Hugo Race has produced Italian artists such as Cesare Basile and Nove Rose.
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Hugo Race had a minor role as the Vampire Bass Player in Michael Rymer's film Queen of the Damned.
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Hugo Race is credited with: vocals, guitars, sequencers, samplers, keyboards, saxophone, congas, Moog synthesiser, Hammond organ, producer.