Uploaded Oct 23, 2009
- Entered in Cakewalk "Your Music Anytime, Anyplace": Urban, November 2009
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Troy Barnett
ASCAP and American Idol Underground contest/chart topper musician, producer, founder and President of Phat Barz Records (A subsidiary of Tamar Entertainment Inc.) started playing music at the age of 10. His first instrument was the trumpet. Through high school he expanded his talent and skill to the entire brass family of instruments while gaining gigging experience with the Young Professional Musicians of Houston. At the age of sixteen he organized his own five member jazz band; they began performing in jazz clubs throughout the city of Houston, TX. Summer months were spent participating and studying in the Summer Jazz Workshop conducted annually by Professors Conrad Johnson, Bubba Thomas, Kyle Turner, Joe Sample, Barry Hall (Director-Duke Ellington Orchestra) and others on the campus of Texas Southern University. He later taught himself to play the organ and the piano before attending Texas Southern and Sam Houston State Universities. He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), the Writers Guild of America, and a Master Mason. He has played for many regional and national recording artists such as Kim Burrell-Young, Mark Gordon and Eternal Life Ministries, Charles Tyrone, Darius Brooks (Musical Director of the late Rev. Milton Brunsons Thompson Community Singers), Adrian Medearis and GODS Anointed People (GAP), Shawn McClemore, and has even shared the stage with Wynton Marsalis and Dr. Shirley Caesar. Troy presses to encourage young people of all ages, musicians AND non-musicians, that success is not in notoriety, but believing in and unleashing ones own abilities. He has provided musical accompaniment for the Missy Chu Childrens Book entitled, What Color Is Monday?, and the theme song for the Historically Black College Queens Workshop' entitled, All Hail The Queen. He currently mentors and tutors young musicians in the urban areas of Houston, TX. He is currently involved in the production of a Latin/Pop/R&B project with the immensely talented youth based super-group Caliente of the Diaz Music Institute. His newest project is the original music soundtrack for the theatrical stage production of Mary Terry Wiley's New Soul Opera, "For Your Souls Sake".For Your Soul's Sake A Soul Opera. Check him out at www.myspace.com/troybarnettmusic
Genres:
Blues, Electronica, Hip Hop , Jazz, Pop, R & B
Members:
Troy Barnett; lead singer, keys, trumpet
Catrell Gray; drummer
Alex Milam; lead guitar, bass guitar
Brent Nabors; tenor sax, alto sax, flute
Jarvis "Su'real"; Lyricist
Latricia Pearson; background vocalist
*Please note: Troy may be booked as a single artist, duet set with Latricia Pearson or with band Raw Energy!
Catrell Gray; drummer
Alex Milam; lead guitar, bass guitar
Brent Nabors; tenor sax, alto sax, flute
Jarvis "Su'real"; Lyricist
Latricia Pearson; background vocalist
*Please note: Troy may be booked as a single artist, duet set with Latricia Pearson or with band Raw Energy!
Setup Requirements:
4 DI boxes, Mixer with Minimum 16 Inputs AND Minimum 3 busses-(1 Bus for Vocals, 1 Bus for Music, & 1 Bus for Backing tracks when needed)
10 mics total (1-Lead Vocals, 5-Drums{to music Bus}, 1-Sax{to music Bus}, 3-Back Vocals{To Vocal Bus}).
1-Kick Drum Mic{to music Bus}, 8-Shure Beta 58(or comparable), 1-shure SM57 or comparable (for Sax & Flute{to music Bus})
Need Boom Stands for Lead Vocals & Drum Miking(Unless Self-Mounting Drum Mics are provided) \ All other mic stands-Straight
1 Bass Guitar Amp(simultaneously patched direct through house to music Bus).
1 Lead Guitar Amp simultaneously patched direct through house to music Bus).
Acoustic Piano (Grand Preferred, If not available, upright will suffice)
(Optional) 2 Channel Compressor & 2 Channel Reverb unit
6 Stage Monitors-1 for Back Vocals, 1 for Drummer, 1 for Lead Vocals, 1 for sax, 1 for lead guitar, 1 for bass guitar
Sound Technician Needed
1(preferably 2) Stagehands needed for setup & breakdown assistance
Dressing room needed
Transportation & accomodations requested for 9: (Manager, 3 back vocalists, bassist, guitarist, saxophonist, drummer, Lead Vocalist/Pianist)
10 mics total (1-Lead Vocals, 5-Drums{to music Bus}, 1-Sax{to music Bus}, 3-Back Vocals{To Vocal Bus}).
1-Kick Drum Mic{to music Bus}, 8-Shure Beta 58(or comparable), 1-shure SM57 or comparable (for Sax & Flute{to music Bus})
Need Boom Stands for Lead Vocals & Drum Miking(Unless Self-Mounting Drum Mics are provided) \ All other mic stands-Straight
1 Bass Guitar Amp(simultaneously patched direct through house to music Bus).
1 Lead Guitar Amp simultaneously patched direct through house to music Bus).
Acoustic Piano (Grand Preferred, If not available, upright will suffice)
(Optional) 2 Channel Compressor & 2 Channel Reverb unit
6 Stage Monitors-1 for Back Vocals, 1 for Drummer, 1 for Lead Vocals, 1 for sax, 1 for lead guitar, 1 for bass guitar
Sound Technician Needed
1(preferably 2) Stagehands needed for setup & breakdown assistance
Dressing room needed
Transportation & accomodations requested for 9: (Manager, 3 back vocalists, bassist, guitarist, saxophonist, drummer, Lead Vocalist/Pianist)
