Tshuutheni Emvula (born October 19, 1981, in Berlin, Germany), sometimes known as Becoming Phill is a Namibian entrepreneur, hip hop record producer, DJ, composer, and video editor from Windhoek, Namibia. He has produced for various Namibian and international artists including Ricky Rick, Gazza, Black Vulcanite, Sunny Boy, TeQuila, Qonja, RUN N.A.M.S., Lize Ehlers, and Zeus.
He has composed music, conducted sound design and supervised soundtrack music placement for the Namibian films 100 Bucks, Love Is..., (won Best Director at Namibian Film Awards 2012), My Beautiful Nightmare, (won Best Independent Film at Luxor Film Festival Egypt 2012), Try, (won Best Film at Namibian Film Awards 2012), Eembwiti, Katutura (2015) and The Unseen (2016).
Becoming Phill has various production styles. He attributes his style to DJ Premier, Pete Rock and J Dilla and also musicians such as Kanye West, Brenda Fassie, Cameo, Osunlade and others.
Music career Becoming Phill has been producing for over a decade, working with musicians across southern Africa and US. He began when his older sister gave him a copy of the then just released FruityLoops in 1998. He went on to work in a full studio environment becoming an understudy of French guitarist/producer, Christian Polloni, from 2005 until 2009. He is currently working on several other projects. In 2016, he released his first official solo album, Electrum.
Discography Solo albums 2009: Allsorts Vol. 1 2016: Electrum
Production credits 2004: Gazza: produced "KKN" from Zula II Survive 2005: Gazza: produced "Nobody" and "My Love" on Stof-Lap Chikapute 2005: Hiphocalypse Mixtape various remixes 2007: TeQuila: produced, co-produced, arranged and mastered for Sound of My Heart 2008: Sunny Boy: produced "Jaiva Mfanyana" on The Sleeping Giant 2010: Run N.A.M.S.: produced The Mixtape Vol. 1 2011: Lize Ehlers: produced the whole of African Cleavage 2014: Pumpkinhead (billed as PH): produced tracks 1, 2 and 3 on This is Not a Tyler Perry Movie (2014) 2014: Malkovich: produced tracks 4, 12, and 13 on Great Expectations 2016: Riky Rick: produced the single "Spread Love" 2016: Black Vulcanite: produced "Playing with Dolls" and "Smoov as a Mutha" from sophomore album, Black Colonists 2017: Tha God Fahim featuring Mach-Hommy: produced backing track for "Chicken Milk Bomb" on The Dump Goat
References
External links BecomingPhill official website Becoming Phill on SoundCloud BecomingPhill on IMDb