H. Gil Ingles (born ''Hermenegildo Pereira Ingles'') also known as ''Gil Ingles'' or ''Hermenegildo Ingles'', is an independent

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, television

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, and

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. Ingles has won several Monty Awards for his Television Show Productions at AMTV (

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), respectively, two songs from the Angolan POP star on his roster Paul G, have been nominated for a 2010

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Base Video Music Awards and for a 2008

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. He was born in

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, and grew up in Southern Maryland in the

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Early life

H. Gil Ingles was born in

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, South-West

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, the son of Maria Flora Ingles, an educator, and Mateus P. Fontes Ingles an esquire and city prosecutor. As a child, he grew up in the city of Huambo, Angola, until several

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attempts on his father forced his mother to send him to the

to study under the guardianship of his aunt.

Music career

In October 1995, Ingles alongside Reginald M. Rainey launched XPOSURE Entertainment a production company, that eventually in 2000 evolved into full artist development, production and management company. After managing and recording some material for the project

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’s R&B artist Anselmo Ralph in 2005, Ingles put his graduate studies on hold to focus his efforts on his supporting executive role at XPOSURE Entertainment, the company that manages the careers and music projects of various African artists like Paul G., IRINA, and

Koby Maxwell Koby Maxwell, (born 25 November 1978, as Maxwell Koby Okwensy) is a Ghanaian musician, singer, actor and producer who currently resides in Washington, D.C. in the United States. He says that his goal is to maintain the authenticity of African mus ...

. He currently serves under XPOSURE Entertainment as an executive production,

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, and performs artistic direction for

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Paul G Paulo George Marques João (born March 31), better known by his stage name Paul G, is an Angolan urban pop and R&B singer-songwriter, producer and dancer. He began his career as a founding member of Angola's first worldly known rap group South S ...

, Irina D Franca, and

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ingles, H. Gil Angolan record producers Living people Year of birth missing (living people)