TJ profile picture

TJ

i used to eat breathe and shit this shit...

About Me


Terry Andrade (aka TJ) found his passion for music at a very young age..
TJ remembers being as young as 4 years old "listening to dad's funky latin rhythms and latin rock" which at the time was soulful and had many worldly influences which would be playing at the Andrade home countless hours a day while "Mom cooked she would even sing along".
It all started however at the age of 11 when TJ's Dad bought a used Radio Shack 2 channel mixer at a yard sale and at the time Terry recalls thinking "The excitement was better than anything I have ever felt". By 13 Terry was making trips downtown to the record store purchasing House and Dance Records and started to feel his passion not only for DJ'ing but for the industry as whole begin to grow.
It was during these trips that "TJ" met his most influential people at that time including : Rawle James, Peter & Tyrone, and good friend Nathan Barato ..
By age 15 Terry was interning at TJSB Records run by Rawle James and immediately fell in love and grasped to the insides of the music business. The following year TJ worked alongside long time friend and mentor Radames Nieves (Now Head of MRP MUSIC GROUP) and once again got to learn and work alongside the Pros of the industry.
By age 18 Terry had been producing 2 years and his studio was coming to fruition.
At age 19 TJ attenteded "Harris Institute of Music Arts' in Toronto (A prolific Music Industry oriented school) and upon completion TJ went to work on solo projects and duo projects with the up and coming Toronto DJ of the time -Nathan Barato.
By age 21 Terry and Nathan where 2 friends making and producing beats on a regular basis on they're spare time and went on to produce their most prolifc track entitled "WEB" under alias UNIVERSAL TRUTH.
The track got remixed by Martin Villeneuve (MV) from Ottawa Canada and later got released on Rawthentic Music and became a great hit in Toronto and surrounding areas in part thanks to our many DJ friends!
By age 23 TJ had been in and around the indusrty and most notably had the right mentors around him for many years (and present) so TJ decided to fulfill another dr5eam of starting a Record Label and so did and called it TIGEREYE RECORDINGS.
TIGEREYE has since grown succefully with Head offices in Toronto and partners in the UK.
(TJ had found his Niche and was gona stick to it!)
TIGEREYE continues it's sucess in '07 with its growing catalogue of friends, artists, and remixers such as DJ ROOSTER & SAMMY PERALTA, KOBBE & AUSTIN, LOWEND SPECIALISTS, MICKY SLIM, MARIO OCHOA, PETER PRESTA, DJ JAIMY, DAAGARD & MORANE, STEVE MAC, ERIC ENTRENA, RICARDO DELHORNO, FILTHYRICH, DEEPJAY PROJECT, TOM SAWYER, CARLO LIO and TJ to name a few..
TJ's productions and remixes have received great support in the past from some of the biggest names in the industry including: PETE TONG, CARL COX, STEVE LAWLER, FERGIE, MICKY SLIM, ANTHONY PAPPA, SUCKER DJ'S, TROPHY TWINS, FILTHYRICH, ERIC ENTRENA, RALPH CEDENO, DJ REZA, ATFC/LABRATS and many more!..

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/7/2006
Band Website: tigereyerecordings.com
Band Members: G5-Logic-Reason-Lotsa Plugins and ma eeers!
Influences: Moroder, Van Helden, RZA, Just Blaze ... tons more.... and more... and MORE!
Sounds Like:

Record Label: Tigereye Recordings.. etc ...
Type of Label: Major