Liam Howlett is an English member of the British band The Prodigy, occasional DJ, and a record producer.
Background
Howlett was born in Braintree, Essex. He was trained in classical piano from childhood. At the age of 14, he mixed songs recorded from the radio using the pause button on his cassette player. He was first influenced by hip hop music and culture when he began to attend school at Alec Hunter Humanities College in Braintree. He learned breakdancing alongside his crew called The Pure City Breakers, and DJed in his first band Cut 2 Kill. After a fight at a gig of the band, Liam left Cut 2 Kill and started to write his own music.
He became connected to rave music and he reportedly went to his first rave in 1989.
On 6 June 2002 Howlett married All Saints' Natalie Appleton. Their son, Ace Billy, was born on 2 March 2004. In his spare time, Howlett is fond of snowboarding. He's a big fan of horror films.Howlett owns a McLaren F1 supercar, one of the 106 ever manufactured
Career
In the late 1980s he met DJ Liam Howlett in a rave club and expressed his appreciation of Howlett's taste in music. After receiving a mixtape from Howlett, Flint came back with great enthusiasm, insisting that Howlett should be playing his tracks up on stage, and that Flint, along with friend Leeroy Thornhill, would dance to them. Originally Flint was the band's dancer, but in 1996 he featured as the vocalist on the hit single "Firestarter". The accompanying video showcased Flint's new punk look. This trend continued with the next Prodigy single "Breathe", on which Flint performed the backing vocals, whilst Maxim performed lead. The 1997 album The Fat of the Land featured Flint's vocal contributions to several tracks, namely "Breathe", "Serial Thrilla", "Fuel My Fire" and "Firestarter". The album's success, becoming the most successful dance album of all time[citation needed], forced Flint into the media spotlight. In 2002 the single "Baby's Got a Temper" was released. At the time Flint and Howlett were having disagreements.[citation needed] On the next Prodigy album, Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (2004), Flint did not perform any vocals, although he did appear on the "Hotride – El Batori Mix," on the "Hotride" single. Keith is soon to release a new single titled "War" with dubstep artist Caspa in 2012. Flint and live guitarist Rob Holliday The latest Prodigy album, Invaders Must Die, was released on 23 February 2009 and features vocals by Flint on multiple tracks, including; Take Me to the Hospital, Run with the Wolves and Colours. Flint has experimented with several solo/side projects, including the bands Flint and Clever Brains Fryin'. Only one single, Aim4 by FLINT, was released commercially, with FLINT's debut album "Device #1" being cancelled before release. A very rare promotional copy of "Device #1" can be found, however it does not contain all the tracks which were originally meant to appear on the final release. Songs in this album include: Asteroids Piggy Laughs Aim Kamikaze Prescription Ju Lu, Femmefatale Vacation Razor
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