What is Nellee Hooper?
{{redlinks|date=October 2011}} {{Infobox musical artist | Name = Nellee Hooper | Img = | Img_capt = | Background = non_performing_personnel | birth_date= 1963 | Genre = [[Trip-hop]], [[rock music|Rock]], [[Electronica]] | Origin = | associated_acts = [[The Wild Bunch (sound system)|The Wild Bunch]]<br>[[Massive Attack]] |birth_name = Paul Andrew Hooper |birth_place = [[Bristol]], [[England]], United Kingdom}} '''Nellee Hooper''' (born 1963, [[Bristol]], [[England]]) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[record producer|producer]]/[[remix]]er/[[composer]] best known for his work with [[Björk]], [[No Doubt]]/[[Gwen Stefani]], [[Madonna]], [[Garbage (band)|Garbage]], [[Andrea Corr]], [[U2]], [[Sneaker Pimps]], [[Soul II Soul]] and [[Massive Attack]]. He also started being a [[motion picture]] [[music composer]] with famed [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[composer]] [[Craig Armstrong]] and [[Marius De Vries]] for the soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet in 1996. == Biography == <!-- Image with unknown copyright status removed: [[Image:The Wild Bunch.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Nellee Hooper in [[The Wild Bunch (band)|The Wild Bunch]].]] --> Hooper began his career as a [[Disc jockey|DJ]] and as a member of the [[The Wild Bunch (sound system)|Wild Bunch]], the Bristol-based group that would turn into [[Massive Attack]]. Between 1989 and 1992 he produced the first albums for Soul II Soul (''[[Club Classics Vol. I]]''), Massive Attack (''[[Blue Lines]]'') and Björk (''Debut''), which in 1995 [[Mixmag]] magazine ranked the 31st, 1st and 3rd best dance albums of all time. The 1995 [[BRIT Awards#1995|BRIT Awards]] honored Hooper as Best Producer for his work on Massive Attack's ''Protection'', Björk's ''Post'' and Madonna's ''Bedtime Stories'' albums. In 1998 he won a [[BAFTA]] Award ([[Anthony Asquith]] Award for Film Music) for his work arranging the score and [[soundtrack]] for [[Baz Luhrmann]]'s [[William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet|Romeo + Juliet]]. In the late 1990s Hooper set up the Meanwhile imprint, which is