User:Dog ref/sandbox

Dog ref aka Morne leonard jansen born on the 22 April is well known as a rapper ,composer and producer starting pursuing his dreams in the early nine tees sacrifice and dedicated his entire teenage years in his music. While other teenagers was spending they life being a teenager Dog ref has been busy in studio recording, producing, carving and perfecting his art to meet up to his standards. Dog ref fall in love with hip hop music at the age of twelve with inspiration of nas, method man, busta rhymes etc As he Grew up in the back streets of Valhalla park Cape town South Africa Dog ref formed a duo with his brother William Jacobus Jansen aka Make dime called Da Mates brothers the late nine ties Dog ref recorded his first track along with his brother called Why me at Hyperdelic productions. That was the first to be played on Bush radio a local community radio station based in Cape town South Africa. As the time the passed by Dog Ref and his brother gathered some money to buy some studio eqiuptment to have more control over they music. We back along with some other tracks was aired on community radio stations followed with several interviews both on radio and newspapers. At same time we was trying to give back to community by helping to record a variety of upcoming artist in surrounding areas. In the early twenties Dog Ref and brother recorded they first twenty track album incredible unforgettable. Due to lack of funds, advertising and effort the cd was a huge disappointment  gave dog ref a totally different perspective of being an artist in South Africa   through the years Dog ref decided to put more emphasis on his personal matters producing over six hundred hip hop instrumentals and hundred songs. Recently dog ref is still working hard to pursuing his dreams of being a successful artist. "The struggle continues"