Kevin Gill was born in Queens, New York and spent much of his formative years obsessed with music, video games, and professional wrestling. Each of these forces played an integral role in his life. He established an independent record label, specializing in New York Hard Core music called Striving For Togetherness records in the early to late-'...
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Kevin Gill was born in Queens, New York and spent much of his formative years obsessed with music, video games, and professional wrestling. Each of these forces played an integral role in his life. He established an independent record label, specializing in New York Hard Core music called Striving For Togetherness records in the early to late-'90s, and released debut recordings by 25 Ta Life, District 9, Vision of Disorder, Without a Cause, Six and Violence, No Redeeming Social Value, Fahrenheit 451 and many more.In 1995 Kevin was featured in the groundbreaking "N.Y.H.C." documentary.In 1998 Kevin was offered a position with a then unnamed start up video game label, which came to be known as "Rockstar Games" and worked on Grand Theft Auto, Monster Truck Madness, Oni, and many more titles. He also makes an appearance in the Grand Theft Auto 2 short film.In 2001 he left his native New York to join Video Game Publisher Eidos Interactive, where he conceived and designed two wrestling video games and put together a critically acclaimed soundtrack of over 100 songs across the two games including many hugely influential musicians from Metal, Hardcore, Punk Rock, and Hip Hop, including notable "First Ever" video game soundtrack appearances by Sick Of It All, Gorilla Biscuits, Six and Violence, No Redeeming Social Value, Vision Of Disorder, Insane Clown Posse, Twiztid, D.R.I. and Kool Keith. The soundtracks also included such hugely influential bands as Rancid, Sepultura, Bad Brains, Andrew WK, Shadows Fall, Biohazard, Anthrax, Body Count, Gwar, KRS-ONE, Mudvayne, Dropkick Murphy's and D.R.I.In 2004 he put together the soundtrack and directed the cinematics for the highly controversial video game "25 To Life" which included contributions from 2Pac, Ghostface, Public Enemy, Gangstarr, Geto Boys, DMX, E-40, Tech N9ne, and Blaze Ya Dead Homie.In 2005 he began refereeing for Juggalo Championship Wrestling around the nation.In 2007 he worked on Tomb Raider: Anniversary and launched a new entertainment company, which has released CDs by No Redeeming Social Value, District 9, Six and Violence.In 2007 he did pro wrestling commentary for Fire Pro TV series.In 2009 he did pro wrestling commentary on The Super Rizz Cup tournament with Lars Frederiksen (Rancid, The Old Firm Casuals) and a short time later joined the Juggalo Championship Wrestling commentary team with multi platinum recording artist Shaggy 2 Dope of Insane Clown Posse.Countless pay per views, DVD's live events, gatherings, video game projects and tours later... In 2013 Kevin was cast on the Insane Clown Posse theater television series for Fuse TV where he performed improv comedy alongside Insane Clown Posse.In 2013 Kevin was cast as himself in Saints Row IV for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 Platforms.In 2014 Kevin launched the Kevin GIll Show podcast interview series which was called part of the golden age of podcasts by Rolling Stone Magazine!In 2014 Saints Row IV was released on PLayStation 4 and XBox 360In 2016 Kevin was hired as co-host and producer of Keepin It 100 With Konnan on The Jericho Network on Podcast One
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