NamedGusto
Gusto (Benny Kogan) was born in Kharkov, Ukraine on June 19, 1987. At the age of 6 his parents got divorced and his father with his parents moved to Israel.
Since Benny was a Jew many times he was insulted by Ukrainians because of that.
Benny started to express his love to music by recording his first home made demo tape at the age of 10, using two stereo tapes. He recorded a few of them but unfortunately only the last one is survived until now.
In school he was a part of a school choir and performed on the biggest jewish community concerts.
When Gusto was 14 years old, on 11 April of 2002 he repatriated to the Holly land.Gusto Began his studies of sound engineering and music producing by using the most gigantic world's source (internet). In High School Gusto began performing at school concerts and even performed as a warm up for Israeli rapper Ilan Babylon. He also performed on a birthday party in da club and school graduation party.
The work on the first album is started at the end of 2005 in Gusto's home studio (later named , 3BRecrods).
Benny Joined the Israeli Defense forces at august 2006 and currently serving in the Air Forces as a Flight Control technician of F-16.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
nope... I perform as a rap artist with my original selfproduced and recorded material.
Your musical influences
Fort Minor , Eminem , Ludacris , Chamilionaire , 2pac , 50 cent
What equipment do you use?
soundcard: E-S-I Juli@ , Preamp: Samson C-valve , Mic: Oktava MK-105 , monitors: Behringer MS-16
Anything else?
ohhh and something important... did you ask yourself why music these days sucks unlike b4 10 years??? I'll tell you artist don't want more to invest in the music because people are prefer to download it from the internet... think about and write your opinion ... we will be hapy to know what you think!
