I'm "Big Al"! I was born on December 3rd 1980 in San Francisco, California. I was raised in the diversely rich San Francisco Bay Area; My "Hip Hop" roots were planted by local artists like Too $hort, E-40, Mac Dre, Mac Mall, The Luniz, 3XKrazy & others. I remember growing up when the BAY AREA was a hot bed for talent in the late 80's & early 90's. EVERYONE had a deal! It's great to see that the HYPHY movement has brought back National Recognition to the YAY AREA! I'm a BAY BOY to the grave! By the age of 17 I had founded my own independent street promotion/marketing company that specialized in retail and urban promotions. Our focus was to promote and market the artists/groups to kids that were our age! So we had our street teams hit local malls, high schools/colleges and any event that would be a draw for our demo ex. concerts, clubs etc. After a year or so of charging dirt low prices to promote projects we started to make a name for ourself and the dough started rolling. Imagine that man! I was 18 years old making as much money as people with there College Degrees and I was fresh out of High School!" For the next couple years Premiere Promotions worked closely with City Hall Records/Distribution (Mac Dre, Mac Mall & Others), EMI Distribution/No Limit/Priority Records/Virgin Records, RP55/ Azzure Clothing and others. I decided what I wanted to do was get into radio. I already had some prior radio experience from working at a community station called KSRT in San Rafael, CA when I was in High School. I guess you can say I got the "radio itch" at WILD 94.9 in San Francisco. Now I've been doing commercial radio now for the past 8 years. Started off as a Mixer, then moved to On-Air and now for the past 6 years I've been working in the daily programming of Rhythm based radio stations. I'm currently employed at XHTO in El Paso, Texas. The station is 104.3 HIT FM. If your in El Paso/Las Cruces make sure to check me out 6am-11am WEEKDAYS! If you don't reside locally you can still listen to our on-line web stream for FREE @ WWW.HITFMRADIO.COM! RADIO is my passion and my first love. After networking with some of the industry power players I have been able to forge strong working relationships with numerous major labels and distribution outlets. I'm now working closely with Genuine Music Group (www.genuinemusicgroup.com) as an A&R and Manager. Our first signee/release is AK'SENT! She has a deal with CAPITOL Records and her debut album entitled "International" is scheduled to hit store sheelves in the beginning of 2007! Check out AK'SENT as she's already been featured on MTV's "You Hear It First" segment and also in print articles in Spin Magazine, The Source & XXL. For more info on AK'SENT visit www.aksent.com or at www.genuinemusicgroup.com and get ready for her NEW mixtape/album sampler available early 2007 hosted by LA's POWER 106's MR CHOC!
More about Genuine Music Group. We are a music production/label and management company based in Los Angeles, California.
Comprised of industry veterans from A&R, Promotion and Radio executives, the
company is celebrating 12 years of focusing on the development and management of
Artists, Producers and Songwriters. To date our clients have been featured on sales
of over 135 Million lps. We have received over 50 Gold and Platinum awards for our
work with such artists as Usher. 50 Cent, G-Unit, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, Xzibit,
Busta /Flipmode, Destiny's Child, Jay Z, 2 Pac, Nas, Justin Timberlake, Christina
Aguilera, Monica, Brandy, Ginuwine, Bobby Valentino and others. Check out our official website at (www.genuinemusicgroup.com)
We are always seeking out new Artist/ Producer/ Songwriter clients. We are are
currently seeking new urban/hip hop and pop lyric.melody writers. Two years ago
we started an artist development division where we developed our first recording
artist "AK'SENT", an 19 year old female hip hop artist on Capitol
Records (www.myspace.com/aksent). We are now developing other acts within the system.
1. Candy Hill / 18-19 year old female Hip Hop/R&B group newly signed to Latium Entertainment/Universal Republic Records through Genuine Music Group. 2. Verse / 22 year old male hip hop artist from Miami. (Also one of Genuine Music Group's Producer
clients) If you are interested in submitting material to become a part of the Genuine
Team please forward to the address on our Genuine website listed above. music layout @ HOT FreeLayouts.com
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