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Think this music love affair started with mom\u2019s Mahalia Jackson albums. Add piano lessons, choir, wicked record collection, bad ass stereos, parties, college radio DJ and it was on.\u00a0 Goodbye KY. Hello LA.<\/p>\nThink this music love affair started with mom\u2019s Mahalia Jackson albums. Add piano lessons, choir, wicked record collection, bad ass stereos, parties, college radio DJ and it was on.\u00a0 Goodbye KY. Hello LA.<\/p>\n
Solar was an entrepreneurial farm and grad school.\u00a0 Dick Griffey the visionary headmaster.\u00a0 Records, Touring, Publishing, Management, Film, Politics, Distribution. Studio & Production, Real estate, Concert promotion, even horse stables!<\/p>\n
The best part.\u00a0 Constant interaction with folks so gifted, we now know them by one name: Ali, Jesse, Ray, Sylvia, Hank, Ornetta, Krasnow, Haymon, Jheryl, Ernie, Louil, Maglia, Peck, McClain, Ivory, Staton, Magic, Virgil, LA, Face, Jimmy, Terry, Dre, Irving, Q, Clarence, Berry, Brenda, George, Frankie, Smith and many more that space doesn’t permit.<\/p>\n
Add Whispers classiness, Lakeside & Midnight Star funk,\u00a0Shalamar harmony,\u00a0Klymaxx innovation & the Cool in You of Babyface.\u00a0 It was empowering black education, thinking outside the box.\u00a0The University of Solar.<\/p>\n
My management years posted early wins with Brian Mcknight and Portrait, hit song placements, label deals at Interscope, Def Jam, RCA, Virgin, Island, Motown, got Tyrese and Robin Thicke signed.<\/p>\n
Sharon Heyward was monumental then and now.\u00a0 As was Damien Smith.\u00a0 I\u2019m forever indebted to them.<\/p>\n
Maurice White period was spiritual.\u00a0 Broadway with Maurice Hines, hung with Mikhail Baryshnikov & Judith Jamison, made music for Concord & publishing with Primary Wave.\u00a0 Deep conversations. \u00a0Watching him play the Kalimba.\u00a0Rehearse a band.\u00a0Talk about Keep Your Head to the Sky. Unreal.<\/p>\n
Did a 180 into digital media. Pensados Place is an online tv talk show that I created, co-host and exec produce. 6 years, 379 weekly episodes on Youtube, seen in 200 countries by approx 300,000 people a month. Covered by Forbes and Huffpost, spoken at Google, Berklee and all over the country, our own Awards show, tv studio and sponsors.\u00a0 WTF!!\u00a0 PensadosPlace.TV<\/p>\n
Justin to Stevie, Mariah to Whitney, Quincy to Pharrell.\u00a0 A gas to work with greatness.\u00a0 But my fellow execs were the true inspiration.\u00a0 Honored to be in the Legend fraternity. \u00a0Take care of each other.\u00a0 Thanks for taking care of me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Think this music love affair started with mom\u2019s Mahalia Jackson albums. Add piano lessons, choir, wicked record collection, bad ass stereos, parties, college radio DJ and it was on.\u00a0 Goodbye […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"\n