Long ago music portrayed a feeling of love and true emotion. It was a time when those perfect words were expressed in such a way that it literally filled your eyes with tears, a time when a simple melody in a voice had the power to steal the sorrow from your heart. There was a time when a song was written with passion and fueled by first-hand experience of one’s personal testimony of love, life, pain, conflict, and triumph. It might have taken a few individuals to create a three and a half minute audible work that would eventually unlock the hearts and pocketbooks of millions around the world. Men such as Quincy Jones, James Harris & Terry Lewis, David Foster and Babyface held this power. These entities were called singers, songwriters and producers.
Throughout the last decade and millions of dollars later, many of us have slowly but surely stood by radios and listened, we have turned on the T.V. seeking, while flooding music stores across the nations, hoping that we would once again find even a glimpse of a record that was worth investing our lunch money in. Instead we find that the house that these great entities have built faces a crisis. The genre of music we’ve come to know as R&B has been stripped of its strength and now stands staring down a not so long path that leads to the brink of extinction.
At the age of fourteen the young Tommy Redding decided that music would be his life. So it is Redding, now twenty-five has sang and danced across countless stages ranging from San Diego to New York. He has headlined and opened for multi-platinum artists such as Johnny Gill, BET's Comic View, has made guest appearances and fashionably paced himself at autograph sessions. From clubs to theaters, news to newspapers, magazines to posters he still finds time to lend his creative abilities to dozens of musical acts such as Sugafree and Oliver Reece. He recently wrote, sang and or produced five out of ten songs on Soul Train Music Award Winner Ginuwine's Compilation Project. Tommy also accompanies rapper Sevin on a song entitled, Go For Mine which is featured on Sony Playstation’s basketball video game 2K7. In the last year he has sparked the interest of Interscope, Capitol, A&M and Columbia Records who flew him out to New York for a special showcase performance.
Tommy and several producers have recently completed an underground LP entitled All of the Above which is available through KunakiLLC Distribution. He and his musical team continue to work in the studio writing songs and creating a publishing catalog for other artists as well as more material for his mainstream album. Tommy is bound to spark an undeniable flame in the industry. If Tommy Redding never forgets that love is the most powerful force on earth, and that joy and pain knows no boundries, then he will always have something to write about. “With all his gifts, talents, skills, abilities…and a good team.†R&B may live after all.â€TOMMY REDDING TRAILER
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