Haze (born Harikrish Menon Ramachandran 2 June 1973,

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) is a singer-songwriter, known for his work in the dance music genre, with hit singles such as "Changes" and "Freak".

Musical career

He began his professional career at R.A.P. (Roslan Aziz Productions), a Malaysian record label owned by acclaimed music producer Roslan Aziz. He has since worked with many of

's top performing artist such as

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, Amir Yussof, Zainal Abidin, the late

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and Malaysian rap sensation

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just to name a few. Besides producing for local Malaysian performing artist, he has also produced

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for many performing artist around the region. Artist such as Kris Dayanti of Indonesia and Singaporean rap sensation

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. Which has allowed him to develop a musical scope that covers across almost all genres. In the mid-1990s he also performed with the band Asia Beat. He was the first Malaysian to appear on the BBC UK Dance Singles Charts, for ''Changes''. His single ''Freak'' made the Top 10 of the National Top 100 Singles chart in the

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Discography

Singles

References

Haze
Discogs. Retrieved 2008-04-21
Interview with Haze

External links

HAZE page on DiscogsMySpace
1973 births Living people House musicians Musicians from Kuala Lumpur Malaysian television personalities Malaysian dance musicians Malayali people Malaysian people of Indian descent Malaysian people of Malayali descent Malaysian Hindus {{Asia-musician-stub