About Me
Teresa Jimenez is a Cuban-American, native of Tallahassee, Florida, and singer of many and varied courses of study and influence. After dabbling in music theatre and training extensively in classical singing, she found her way to jazz, and began to uncover the voice now heard in her upcoming debut solo album, GET STEREO. Although new to recording, Teresa first started her study and exploration of music somewhere around five years old, and realized she was a singer the day she lost the fifth grade solo to a boy. It was only about eight measures in Handel's Messiah, but to her it meant everything, and she knew it should've been hers. No tears were shed, but a new calling was indeed found.
By 14 she focused on vocal training and continued formal classical training for eight years. At some point she discovered she had more to say through her singing, and began playing regular gigs with jazz groups in Tallahassee, and sitting in whenever possible. This led her to branch out even further, joining ranks with bands like RED FLAG HITCHHIKERS and, most recently, SECRET ARMY, led by the producer and one of the main musicians and composers for GET STEREO, Danny Bedrosian. The album, due to release in 2008, includes performances by members of PFUNK, THE SOULAR SYSTEM, and SWEET MOTHA' CHILD. Contributing composers include Danny Bedrosian, Michael Maloney, Rico Lewis, Marc Munoz, and more, with lyrics by Danny, Michael, and Teresa Jimenez. Stay tuned for updates on the official release of Teresa's debut, GET STEREO..
WEFUNK SOUTH Groups:bWEFUNK SOUTH has a small stable of masterful artists, serious groups and monstrous bands that have huge marketing potential, and amazing raw talent. Here are short descriptions of but a few of them:
Danny Bedrosian & Secret Army - formed by Bedrosian, and membered by fellow P-Funkers and musical legends Dewayne “Blackbyrd†Mcknight, Lige Curry, Rico Lewis, and more, Secret Army is a musical collective combining Hard Funk with Ethnic Middle Eastern Music, other World Music forms, Jazz Fusion, R&B, Hip-Hop, and various classical music elements from keyboardist Bedrosian’s extensive 20-year long classical tutelage. The music is both approachable and innovative. Their first album was released independently with WEFUNK SOUTH and BozFonk Moosick Publishing heading it up, and has received rave reviews as being something never really heard before; a new fusion, carrying with it a tradition first put down by the original Parliament-Funkadelic members who fused various genres in their own right in the 60’s and 70’s. Secret Army is doing the same thing with new genres and sub-genres, new technology, and a new World audience. The overlying theme is unity in this multi-ethnic, cross-cultural, multi gender band. The second album, a double album, by Secret Army was recently released, and the band’s third is currently being completed. This group has already played all over the East Coast and Midwest; some of the key shows include opening for George Clinton at the House of Blues in Orlando, FL, headlining the FSU Hempfest in 2007, and playing the main stage at 2008’s Trinumeral Festival, to name but a select few. The band is currently planning several international tours.
The Soular System-an 8-piece Southern Funk/Bayou Soul band, with a lot of rock and jazz influences as well. Fronted by the Reverend Desmond D’Angelo, and featuring not only a blisteringly powerful rhythm section, but also a three piece horn section, various percussion in the mix, choreographed dancing, tight arrangements, grooving musical workouts, amazing lyrics, and diabolically interesting concepts. Their sophomore album, All the Way Out, and All the Way In, produced by Bedrosian with WEFUNK SOUTH, is receiving great response as the band continues a hefty touring and practicing schedule in the southern and Midwestern United States. The band has performed alongside Fishbone, Digital Underground, George Clinton, Chicago, and Earth Wind, and Fire.
Moon Child-a mixture of Alaskan folk music, Pop, Dance funk, Celtic folk music, Classical composition, Crunk, southern fried beats, and Beatles-esque songwriting, Moon Child is a very unique singer-songwriter, whose first album, produced by Bedrosian is a testament to the diverse styles and the quiet, angelic soprano of Moon Child. Also featured on the album is longtime P-Funk contributor Jerome Rodgers. Moon Child is currently working on new material for another album, and fronting her funk band,
Soul Hole in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Asphalt Panda-a jazz/rock power trio out of Tallahassee, FL, their first album is currently being finished by Bedrosian. Their strong bedrock of drums, bass and guitar is a startlingly different type of group than the larger WEFUNK SOUTH outfits, and the intricate, tight arrangements reflect the small combo’s extremely dedicated musical approach. If one would describe them outright it would be best to describe them as a fruit punch of EMO, Pop, Jazz Fusion and Alternative music. Led by Bassist and songwriter Duane Day, Asphalt Panda is a unique and yet very marketable approach to the power trio, fusing many important aspects of popular music today.
UNFUNKWITABLE-Led by Dwayne Dungey, featuring keyboards by P-Funk's Danny Bedrosian, Secret Army guitarist Marc Munoz, and asphalt Panda drummer Seth Ceders, Tallahassee area bassist Jamie Campbell, and special guests. The sound is RAW FUNK with a METAL edge, and a psychologically transcendent lyrical side which is as multi dimensional as the music which goes from quiest as a mouse, to blatantly nasty at the drop of a hat!
Clonin the Wheel-A consistent, funky, dancefloor oriented EP, which started as a collaboration between Bedrosian and North Carolina multi-instrumentalist Chris Cornwell. P-Funk All-Star and solo artist in her own right, Miss Kendra Foster contributes to one of the more jazz influenced cuts on this dynamite EP. Clonin the Wheel also features Secret Army Axemen Marc Munoz and Mike Maloney, and BOZFONK-WEFUNK SOUTH staffer/beatsmith Jon Picken. But most of the fire is from Cornwell himself, and Bedrosian, who play drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, and most of the vocals throughout this surefire funk thrust of a disc.
Sweet Motha’Child - Bedrosian’s now defunct 18 piece funk conglomerate resurfaces on disc on the upcoming SMC the Best of 1999-2003. Though not encompassing the band’s entire career, this Best of album gives the p-funk or secret army fan an insight to Bedrosian’s pre-P music in his late teenage years. There are actually some great compositions and performances on this disc by Bedrosian and all the rest of the New England based group.
Our Objectives:
The motives of the WEFUNK SOUTH family, is to receive distribution on an international level for our stable of artists and bands ,along with the other artists and groups under the BOZFONK umbrella, as well as provide booking opportunities for shows and tours, promotions, studio time, publishing and copyright opportunities, marketing strategies, audio and video elements, graphic design, conceptual development, merchandising, a full photography, film and art department, artistic development, a stable of writers, producers, arrangers, musicians, vocalists, technicians, administrators and management to our group of bands and artists. We strive to continue to grow and find new, fresh, innovative and unique talent to add to the fine family of WEFUNK SOUTH and BOZFONK MOOSICK.
We thank you for your time regarding the many prized artists and groups, and the proud achievements of this fledgling branch of WEFUNK
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