Maurice started his productions in the year of 2000 Independently; He did this before leaving ten years of service as a sheriff officer to continue pursuing his longing for the love of Entertainment which also stems from his background as a musician, since grown in record number... Akashic began in Chicago's Midwest, and now operates in Florida, MN, California, Arizona, Nevada and the Canadian Market... The facts speak for themselves; Maurice is no stranger to the inner working of the music industry with experience in marketing, promotions, public relations, tour, artist development and also worked with various successful music industry producers and successful independent record labels... Maurice involvement with qualified record label A&R / Music Producers has called upon his assistance; such as Greg (G-Wiz) Herth, Mark Roofe, Roofe had three #1 billboard top ten singles in the late 80s that got him his first Gold Record... Creation of the artist formerly R-Kelly that's when Mark got his first Platinum Record... Later M5 studios was born and a key anchor in support of R&B, Hip Hop and Latin in the Miami music industry. M5 worked with artists such as Janet Jackson, Trick Daddy, Trina, Pit Bull, Iconz, Adina Howard, No Mercy and more... Roofe became a member of the Grammy's and served as a Florida board of Governor... Producing and engineering dance & Latin music and worked with such artist as Miles j, Debbie Deb, Nice n Wild, two live crew, GLORIA ESTEFAN “HIGHERâ€(ENGINEER/REMIX) SONY/EPIC, FATHER MC (ENGINEER,LUKE/PRIORITY/SONY, R-KELLY (WHY YOU WANNA PLAY ME), R.J.HELTON ENGINEER AMERICAN IDOL 1st, JENNIFER FUENTEZ PRODUCER/ENGINEER AMERICAN IDOL 3rd, NADIA TURNER PRODUCE/ENGINEER, also producing commercial for Tropicana, Cayman Airline, Burdines and others... Maurice other working relationships has also included Rodney Skipworth Comprised of "Skipworth & Turner", and Daryl "Captain Sky" Cameron, and other productions with Roberto Blanchard of Blanchard Films, Writer/Producer Randy Holcomb Sr. Originally, Created, developed, wrote the hit T.V. Series New York Undercover, Dick Wolf is the Executive producer, also Executive Producer Jim White, who was chosen to participate in the annual Sundance Institutes Independent Producers Conference and produced /directed the TV doc, "The Invisible Men of House" "The Legend of the Buffalo Soldiers" Jim White is executive producer on "My Phamily BBQ, Too", T.V. Commercials and others... also Jerry Jones Producer writer: co-creator / writer of the 70's Rudy Ray Moore hit movie Dolemite... Jones also appeared in Kanye West "Jesus Walks" Music Video and hit T.V shows such as Mash, Brady Bunch and many others.. Maurice has worked with child star Steve Wash, formerly of "The Wayne Brady Show" and "The Parkers", as featured: on "The Today Show" and "Good Morning America" as part of Mathew Knowles,(Parental Approved) initiatives, and Michael Hernandez from former labels: SOS/ZOO/BMG, ID/RCA, ESCAPE, ELEKTRA, ACT 2 in Baltimore Maryland and Tony Weston of Q&W Music, as well as Mark S.Berry of ATTACK RECORDS... Akashic also assisted with Attack Records and Q&W Music for the album that went global; entitled The Great Chicago Fire, produced and written by Kanye West and Malik Yusef. Personel includes: Malik Yusef, Carl Thomas, Common, Syleena Johnson, Dasha Kelly, Bigg Naste, Feloney, J.Ivy, Makaela, Mr.Miraji, Chantay Savage, Shillae Anderson, Triple Black, Kevin Coval, Azeeze, Kanye West, JV, King Ron E-Ron, Marvelous 11, Keanna Henson, Shadow, Kim Ransome, Andre Riley... The album was also chosen for two Motion Picture sound tracks; My Baby's Daddy and was featured in a NUMBER 1 movie of the week in North America; "Coach Carter" as well as the hit video "Wouldn't You Like To Ride" feat: Kanye West & Common... Maurice also toured while Marketing (Carlos 'Sir Nose' Mc Murry) AKA "Parla Mac" from George Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic and Rock Band "Blue Rage" which opened for Major Rock venues in the U.S. with current articles that featured great reviews, among other credits... Mark S.Berry: I have known Maurice Browne since January 2000 when I was introduced to him in a professional capacity as a manager in Chicago,IL In that time I have gotten to know him as a friend as well as a favored management/talent agent out of the Chicago area... As owner/producer of one of the country's busiest and most successful independent record and film companies for the past 7 years, whose credits include some of the biggest names in the music industry such as: David Bowie, Duran Duran, Billy Idol, Boy George, The Killjoys, I Mother Earth, Kool & the Gang, Yes, The Headstones, Voivod, Burton Cummings, Talk Talk and many more... I have had the pleasure of working with some of the world's finest managers. I have honestly include Maurice among their ranks in both professionalism and in his wide range of musical knowledge... Maurice has always found the time to help develop new unproven artists with great musical talent, carefully honing their skills so that they can compete in a fierce world market... In my dealings with Maurice I have always found him to be a trustworthy, reliable and conscientious human being, both with his peers and also with his younger less experienced clients/artists who often look to him for career guidance and advice... When it comes to the love of music as an art form, I've also seen a passion in Maurice that is often missing in some of his contemporaries... I have always felt that Maurice was one of the most professional and efficient managers in the music industry that I have ever had the honour to work with and I would never hesitate to work with him in a professional capacity again. In addition, he gets things done... It is also a pleasure to be able to call him a friend outside of any professional ties. Very sincerely, Mark S.Berry Chairman ATTACK Group of Companies...Present Day: Maurice is at the helm of Akashic Productions business vision and functional direction while leadership, actions, decisions are imperative... Maurice shares; This hands on experience is rare in the Productions Industry, we respect support and encourage talent and share the importance of applying social responsibility... We're Expecting for greater things to happen on a Major scale. One of our missions is continue to focus on the development of new and Inspiring projects, not only Nationally,but Globally... Akashic has another purpose that is critically important to aid in ways to fund education that will benifit children and single mothers who are truly in need, while striving in ways to help crush/prevent homeless situations in result describes which devastate lives of many.
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