Trae Ramon Pierce
Trae has an impressive and award-winning career spanning a wide variety of musical disciplines. He has appeared in TV shows, movies, interviews/documentaries and been a part of some of the memorable albums and tours of the last several decades.
His accolades include:
- Five Grammy Awards
- Three Dove Awards
- An NAACP Image Award
- Alabama Hall of Fame Inductee
Has produced and/or recorded with:
- Trae Pierce & The T-Stone Band
- Blind Boys of Alabama
- Sugarfoot
- The Ohio Players
- George Clinton
- Flava Flav
- Ce Ce Penniston
- Flo-Rida
- K-Ci & Jo Jo
- Susan Tedeschi
- Phil Collins
- Peter Gabriel
- Randy Travis
- Lou Reed
David D1 Grant
David “D1” Grant Jr. is a songwriter, keyboardist, and producer based Central Florida and Austin Tx. Born and raised in Deland, FL, Grant’s passion for music developed while playing the keyboard at his local church. His passion was fostered by his father, Bishop D.L. Grant, who taught him, “Music is in you.” Grant went on to study Recording Arts at Full Sail University in Orlando, FL.
After graduating in 2003, he began working professionally as a keyboardist, producer, and sound engineer, making and creating music across the United States. Grant has worked with top artists across their respective genres and has a score of production, mix engineer, and songwriting credits. His recent work includes production for three-time GRAMMY® nominated R&B artist, Angie Stone, and songwriting, production, and mix engineer for three-time GRAMMY® nominated Gospel artist, Mali Music. Grant produced nine of the 14 songs featured on Mali Music’s recent album, “The Book of Mali,” which debuted at #3 on Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums, and earned 2 Top 10 Singles.
In 2021 , he produced an “Amazon Original” cover of TLC’s “Waterfalls” performed by Mali Music, as well as a performance of Mali Music to be featured on the Recording Academy’s “Positive Vibes Only” virtual series. Later that year, the opportunity to work aside one of music’s most promising stars arrived and D1 began tour with the now 11-time Grammy Nominated and 5-time winner, including Album of The Year, Jon Batiste. Headlining sell out performances and TV appearances, including The Today Show, PBS Austin City Limits, NBC Global Citizen’s, Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, and the unbelievable performance at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. Along Side Jon Batiste, D1 is featured on the Organ Solo from Legendary Hall Of Fame Songwriter Diane Warren’s Hit single featuring Jon Batiste and 3-time Grammy Award Winners Pentatonix, on her hit song “Sweet” which debuted at #18 on Billboard’s AC Radio Charts.
Paul Drennan
Paul is a prolific and accomplished bass and guitar player who has performed with some of the biggest names in the industry.
Currently, Paul is the bass player for Music Mob, Blandini and the guitar player for Three Forks Road. Paul also recently completed a tour with .38 Special, and that is just the beginning of his amazing pedigree, which includes performances with:
- Billy Gibbons – ZZ Top
- Dee Snyder – Twisted Sister
- Vince Neil – Vince Neil Band
- George Lynch – Dokken, Lynch Mob
- Sebastian Bach – Skid Row
- Jesse James Dupree – Jackyl
- Terry Ilous – XYZ, Great White
Paul is also a former Polygram Records Recording Artist.
Terry Olson
Terry Olson served as Orange County's “Chief Arts Instigator” since the County authorized the creation of the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs in 2001. Previously he was the Executive Director of the Arts & Cultural Alliance for Central Florida. Terry has been involved professionally in the Arts since he completed an M.A. in Theatre from the University of Minnesota. He moved to Florida to help open Epcot Center, bringing SAK Theatre, a company he co-founded and managed for 21 years. Since moving to Orlando, he has helped start and run more than a dozen other arts organizations including the Orlando Theatre Project, the Orlando Fringe Festival, Orlando’s Downtown Arts District and FusionFest. He attends as many as 40 arts events each. He has sung with Central Florida Community Arts, Orlando sings, and in numerous shows. He served as Executive Director or Board member for a number of national or international arts networking and support organizations.
The most recent large project, “Fusion Fest – A Celebration of Global Roots” that since 2019 has been bringing together many of the diverse heritages of people who live in Central Florida not only for the signature festival Thanksgiving weekend, but also to hold weekly and monthly activities that explore more fully the cultural heritages of many diverse people in Central Florida.
His wife and child are also both involved in the arts.
Omar Jose Cardona
Omar Jose Cardona is a singer/songwriter from Orlando, Florida. He has been singing professionally for 15 years and started his career as a session singer after graduating high school. More recently, he was a finalist on Season 22 of NBC’s The Voice. His vocal ability is unrivaled in the industry, and his dynamic performances have been shared across the globe. Omar is hardworking with his sights set on broadway currently writing and producing original music to be released soon. He is grateful for the opportunities to do what he loves and share his passion for music.
Nate Morton
Self-taught from age 5, Nate's formal drum set training began during high school with Grant Menefee in Baltimore, Maryland. He continued his education in Boston, Massachusetts as a performance major at the renowned Berklee College of Music, studying with drummers such as Ed Uribe, Ian Froman, John Ramsay and Ron Savage. Upon graduating in 1994, he taught and played locally in Boston until moving to Los Angeles in 1999 where he has since amassed live performance and recording credits that include Natalie Cole, Michael Bolton, Madonna, Miley Cyrus, Richard Marx, Paul Anka, Paul Stanley, Pete Murray, Pink, Paulina Rubio and Thalia among others. Nate was also the hard hitting force, driving the house band, on the Mark Burnett shows, ROCKSTAR:INXS and ROCKSTAR:Supernova. He cites Animal from The Muppet Show as his first and biggest influence.
In 2010, he was the house band drummer on Bonnie Hunt's day time talk show, as well as performing with Cher for her string of appearances at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Now, you can catch him grooving during prime time on the NBC hit show, THE VOICE.
Nate is proud of his personal and professional relationships with the following companies: Pearl, Zildjian, Remo, Roland, Sennheiser, E-PAD!, Humes & Berg, KellySHU, and BFSD.
Jeff “Supa Jeff” Villanueva
Jeff is a four-time Grammy award winning engineer who has worked with some of the biggest names in music. With his experience in the pop, R&B, Rock and Hip-Hop genres, Jeff brings a new perspective and great energy to Ty Fy. Jeff also has vast experience in the TV, film and gaming worlds as a music and post-production engineer and producer.
Jeff has worked with DJ Khaled, Rhianna, Jennifer Lopez, Lionel Richie, Destiny’s Child, Mary J. Blige, Sugar Ray, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion, as well as for brands such as EA Sports, and Rodney Jerkins of Dark Child Entertainment.
Now with Ty Fy Studios Jeff is proving himself all over again, adding his expertise and passion to Ty Fy Studios’ projects which include theme park, film, TV and gaming. Jeff’s award-winning vocal mixes and can-do spirit has made him one of the most sought-after engineers around. Ty Fy Studios is proud to have an engineer with Jeff’s breath of knowledge and experience on the team.
“Jeff just gets it, I love his instincts and how he handles the talent, no wonder he’s called Supa-Jeff!” – Roger Butterley, Music Producer Disney
