Member Since: 27/09/2006
Band Website: approvedcd.com
Band Members:
Sopranos: Gina Brooks, Danielle Davis, Deidre Gray, Dionna Ivy, Lyvelle Simms, Fatima Washington. Altos: Tamarah Brownlee, Virginia Githiri, Glory Harris, Melissa Houston, Demetria Jackson, Nissa Majors. Tenors: Cyntressa Dickey, Kelly Ivy, Kyle Ivy, Jason Scott. "Da Band"...Musical Director / Keys: Matt "Matty-Matt" Brownie, Bass: Jeremy "J-Bones" Taylor, Keys / Auxiliary: Floyd "Sticky Fingers" Thomas, Percussion: Kimball "Beast" Glaspie and Kevin "Deacon" Ivy, Jr.
Influences: So many different influences that if I had 10,000 tongues...I just couldn't name them all. But to list a few, I'll start with my Mom for teaching me to have faith and always to keep Christ first in all that I do, and then my Dad for showing me how to walk with my head held high, to have no fear, and to love my family uncoditionally. Much thanks to the Supreme Lyricists who have helped me to write songs that go beyond the norm by using unconventional words and phrasing to express every day ideas that all persons can relate to: Walter Hawkins, Edwin Hawkins, Andre Crouch, Thomas Whitfield, Rudolph Stanfield, Darius Brooks, Daryl Coley, Kirk Franklin, Donald Lawrence, James Hall, and my guy, Claudius Craig. Musical Composers and Instrumentalists: Richard Smallwood, Thomas Whitfield (again), Earth-Wind-and Fire, Mint Condition, Victor Wooten, Melvin Crispell, Kevin Bond, Stevie Wonder, Miles Davis, and Joe Sample for stretching the limits of music composition and utilizing instruments, sounds, and rhythms that "surface artists" stay away from. Powerful Vocalists to die for: Commissioned (Fred Hammond, Marvin Sapp, Marcus Cole, Mitchell Jones), Kim Burrell, J. Moss, old school Tremaine, Donny Hathaway, LaLa Hathaway, Take 6, Brian McKnight, Kayla Parker, Marvin Winans, CeCe Winans, Dorinda Clark-Cole, old school Michael Jackson, Nat King Cole, Stevie Wonder (again), Vanessa Bell Armstrong, and Roberta Flack. Gifted arrangements, unique phrasing, and tight production: Kirk Franklin, Donald Lawrence, Fred Hammond, Tye Tribett, L. Spenser Smith, Gary Mayes, Lisa McClendon, Myron Butler, and new school Adrienne Archie. The church-boy in me loves the "churchiness" of O'landa Draper, Hezekiah Walker, Ricky Dillard, DeAndre Patterson, Bishop Paul Morton, Shirley Ceasar, and Twinkie Clark-Terrell. Finally and most importantly, the overflow anointing, worshipper, and prophetic psalmist mantle of Donnie McClurkin, Israel Houghton, old school Yolanda Adams, new school Karen Clark Sheard, Byron Cage, Leslie Pace, Judith Christie-McCallister, Clay Crosse, Michael W. Smith, and Damita Haddon.
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Record Label: GPM
Type of Label: Indie