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Chef Ragoo
Discography
La Connessione (1996)
Explorandom (2000)
featured on Zora La Vampira soundtrack (2000)
BIO
"I was born in Rome, May 1972, and raised an anti-fascist in a fascist school. I started playing music because it was the only thing a kid could do to spread his hate towards almost everything he saw in his life, aiming mostly against newborn fascists and cops. I sung in about three punk bands and played drums and bass for three others, always associated with the squat/centri sociali movement and the do-it-yourself attitude, i.e. NO MONEY!, just doing it for the motherfucking cause.
When the punk scene started reiterating the same commercial shit, I turned to rap music, feeling that it was the most politically engaged music around. I recorded something like 30 songs while rapping, made a solo EP (produced by Little Tony Negri) and played a major role in a bad/doomed movie "Zora La Vampira," which also meant to me the end of my rap life. I guess I made some of my better lyrics on that soundtrack, my first MAJOR record, but nobody even noticed. But by that time I totally lost the point of what my music was meant to be, so the good lyrics on the soundtrack were an exception in a sea of bullshit, "babe-I-screw-you give-me-da-money thing," so fuck that. I went back to my hardcore punk roots, talking to smaller but way more intelligent crowds — no more challenge, no more business, no more bullshit.
I'm here to play the music and to smash the police state. I leave success to those who deserve it (and god knows only assholes deserve success). I'm in the music thing for a riot. And that's the way i'm gonna stay."
Chef Ragoo's return to punk can be seen at www.fluhardcoreroma.it.
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