Category: the grind
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Joe Wize from Indiggo Child and Good Money from Dollars And Cents Records
Good Money and I having a meeting and talking about me writing tracks for his new album
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Fayola and Manola Talbert Working On The Fairytale Video
Fayola and Manola taking a pic during a meeting about the Fairytale Video coming soon. The song “Fairytale” is off Fayola’s debut album called “Love ,Hate and Passion”.
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Whas Up Everyone
Wow what’s up with this snow? Can you believe it.!?!?!? Will it ever end? Anyway some projects that I’m working on are coming to conclusion. It feels good and it gives me a sense of accomplishment. I know your gonna love it when you hear it. Especially Fay-O-la’s project. We’re putting the finishing touches on…
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Met A New Contact Today…Film Scoring
Gonna be focusing on film scoring and commercials. I did score a friends movie called Second Chance before so I understand somewhat of what’s neeeded. I think you have to be more creative with this and put in more preparation. This connection has been doing commercials and film scoring for a good amount of time.…
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Just Finished Another Music Session
The real session run about 6 to 8 hours and they are work. I think artist work harder then regular nine to fivers because of all the odd hours and times we have to work. Like on holidays and weekends. There is no rest if you want to be successful. When your doing the things…
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WOw! New Year’s Resolutions, Huh!?!?
So far there’s are a lot of opportunities when trying to complete my resolutions. (Which is good) It’s as if while on the journey, that when I turn over one stone there’s many more to be turned over. I’m finding it very difficult to consolidate and prioritize. Just trying to keep from being overwhelmed is…
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Well I Reconfigured My Studio
I reconfigured my music studio. I like the way it feels now but it may take a little time to get my ears adjusted to the new configuration with me mixing and all. Some of my new tracks sound awesome. I’d like to put on the net but don’t know if I feel cool enough…
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Now that I’ve Got The Music and Right Artist…
Now that I’ve got the music and the right Artist my focus this year will be to make the artist I’m working with more successful. Which means developing their brand and building their fan base. I have the know how but I haven’t made it mandatory with artist in collecting emails after the shows. I’m…
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Relationship With A Musicians? It take’s 2 strong people
When you as an musician are trying to have a relationship with someone who’s not. Trying to survive on the gig’s and product sales sometimes could be very daunting. The swing of income varies widely varies from successful to a struggling artist. Sometimes it’s not understood that this is a business and you are running…
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Visiting International African Arts Festival
It was beautiful, hot-fun and the feel was relaxed. I just simply loved it! I didn’t mind the crowd because everyone was in good spirits. I went to watch SOAQ perform with Collective Flow. Crazy our car broke down before we even got there, on the Jackie Robinson Highway. So we had to get out…
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Eve Soto At The Creative Music and Arts Festival June 29th 2009
Eve Soto at the Creative Music and Arts Festival at First Presbyterian Church Of Mount Vernon on June 29th 2009. We had a great time for a last second show. S.O.A.Q and Tre Dee of collective flow performed with Eve Soto and Ivy Soto. The energy was low until we took the stage we hyped…
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The Present Doesn’t Equal The Past
Working with Eve Soto last night on a remake of an old track called “Baby Luv” we came upon a conversations on how we’re approaching making music compared to the way we did it in the past. It seems in the past, while trying to approach the labels, they’d want a song similar to what…