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About Me

Long, long ago when I was a young lad my Mom bought me a snare drum to play in band while I was in elementary school. Some years later, she offered to either buy me a drum set or a set of congas. I opted for the congas because I knew our church drummer wasn't going to share his throne (drum throne). I played the congas for the youth choir for a few years. When I was 13, Mom decided to buy our church's old upright piano. My sister, brother, and I were carted off to piano lessons then. I was the only one that caught the bug. My sister and brother fell off. A few years later, I took up the bass as well. I taught myself how to play. My favorite bass player is still Marcus Miller. I stumbled into production when I met RaSean the Phenomenon at church. He introduced me to Bro. Stone. For the next couple of years I was an inhouse member of Unity Universe Music where I added production to several inhouse artists records. In 1999, at the final live recording of James Moore, I ran into an old friend that I grew up in church with-Paul "PDA" Allen of PAJAM. I was fortunate enough to be part of PAJAM's production team for the next six years. Most recently, I have composed music for several radio commercials, composed music for websites, composed onhold/info music for corporations, composed music/written scripts for educational cds, composed music for the New York Knicks poetry slam competition, etc. Oh, about the name "Reign B4 2morrow", it means the grind must be constant, in the now, so my dreams can take flight on the eve before the next dawning. How 'bout that. More to come......

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 17/09/2006
Band Website: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1102847347
Band Members: DQ (Me) on Bass, Mike E on the Mic, Kenny Watson on vocals, keys, & guitar, Sowande Keita on djembe & percussion, DJ Invisible on the turntables, & Nick Miller on drums & percussion, & JT on the mic spitting & hyping the crowd
Influences: Not necessarily influences but producers that I like: Rodney Jerkins, The Underdogs, Kanye West, Just Blaze, Timbaland, Mervyn Warren, Tommy Sims, PAJAM, Marcus Miller, Bryan Michael Cox, Kirk Franklin, Josiah Bell, Mario Winans, Steve Mandile, Larry Nix, etc...
Sounds Like: That dude you like...
Record Label: unsigned

My Blog

AfroFlow @ Northern Michigan University

Yesterday we visited Northern Michigan University. We had a great time there. The students were very organized & pumped about the event. The show was a lot of fun. We had an art student, Hailey, on st...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:50:00 GMT

AfroFlow @ North Dakota State University

Tonight's performance was at North Dakota State University. We had a somewhat small but, enthusiastic crowd. The basketball team had a rare home game tonight. The show went well. Kenny broke a guitar ...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:23:00 GMT

AfroFlow @ Virginia Tech

Yesterday the 2009 AfroFlow Tour touched down at Virginia Tech. The campus was beautiful and the people were very warm and accomodating. We couldn't have asked for a better reception. We had the honor...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:42:00 GMT

On The Road Again

Wow, I'm back on tour. I wasn't supposed to be here. Then again, I guess I was it just wasn't scheduled. Things happen for a reason. I'm very excited and blessed to be back on out for the second year ...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:43:00 GMT

The Afro Flow Tour Was Such A Great Experience

Hey Friends, as you know (at least a lot of you), I've been on tour playing keys for the Mike-E & Afro Flow Tour (www.afroflow.com) since mid February. I'm sitting on our tour bus now headed back ...
Posted by on Sat, 03 May 2008 19:22:00 GMT

The Tour has begun

Hey friends the tour has finally begun. We arrived in Orangeburg, South Carolina early yesterday (Feb. 20) for our first show at South Carolina State University last night. We had a great time perform...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:23:00 GMT

Rehearsing To Go On Tour

Hey friends, I'm sitting here in my hometown of Detroit, Mi. where it's freezing and the sun has obviously headed south for the winter. Can you tell I'm missing Nashville (my new home for almost two y...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:08:00 GMT