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Bryan O'Quinn :Biography
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Bryan O’Quinn was one of the few underground dance music artists to enjoy negligible mainstream exposure during the late ’80s and early ’90s heyday of hip-hop soul. O’Quinn’s smooth seductive crooning style and erotic dance moves earned him a substantial female following and made him a presence on the up and coming R&B scene. Even after the futuristic productions he favored were eclipsed by the more organic, retro-leaning neo-soul movement.
Native North Carolinian, Bryan O’Quinn comes from an upper middle working-class family, His father a hard-working managerial businessman and his mother a creative homemaker turned entrepreneur, exposed their child to the arts through academics at a very early age. He began singing and dancing when he was just two years old and, when he was three and a half, he performed song, dance and very clever storytelling, before a lively audience of third graders. Enchanted by the talented tyke, Students and Teacher asked O’Quinn’s Grandmother, who at one time co-hosted a praise and worship radio show, to bring him back weekly, and that she did. By the time he was in junior high school, he had begun to participate in music competitions, workshops, and The Children’s Theatre that’s when he began to write songs. After high school completion, He sought secondary education through certificate course programs at both North Carolina and Philadelphia Schools the Performing of Arts O’Quinn took private voice lessons at the Community School of the Arts in his hometown. Already a working model, singing with several original music and cover bands, Bryan O’Quinn is specialized in various forms of music, dance and photography. Furthermore Bryan is not only a singer, but also a writer and producer.
After signing with a New York City Independent Record label in the late ’80s, Bryan O’Quinn’s debut LP Working All the Time, included the singles “Yes we can " and "The Feeling of Love (you’ve got to move) both of which received a good response in a number of R&B and dance circles. Bottom Line and Experience the Jazz & Groove (recorded live) followed in 1990 and 1992, both of which established a high-quality reaction in black college (HBCU) radio. After release from his contract, the record label folded. Shortly after that his single release “Keep on (Holding On)” (remixed and recycled by Chuck Walker and Hit Sounds Entertainment NYC) still did well on the club scene and gained some radio rotation. A buzz had been created with little or no support from a record label.
In 1996, Bryan O’Quinn founded BSM Entertainment & Records where he began to collaborate with other upcoming artists and produce his own projects independently.
O’Quinn spent that spring performing live engagements with his band at spring festivals, biker rallies, and many of the historic colleges; Davidson College, Johnson C. Smith University, and Morehouse College just to name a few. By the following summer, Mr. O’Quinn was playing many limited engagements for 1,000-2,000 fans a night as the opening act for other artists the most rife was Grammy-winning rap group Arrested Development.
In 2004 Bryan O’Quinn signed an exposure agreement with the Alpha Model Group (a division of On track Modeling Inc.) The Contract representation directs his modeling, promotional work, and television, print, and motion picture endeavors.
The new millennium found Bryan O’Quinn in yet another inspirational and motivating place, championing many causes, especially those concerned with families and children. He was spokesperson for the Men of Valor Responsible fatherhood association partnering with Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. An organization adhering to the great importance of the non-custodial parents or as O’Quinn was quoted as saying the uplifting and preservation of the father parent child connection.
In early 2006 Mr. O’Quinn began to serve as a board member for a very exclusive Performing Arts Advisory Board which was formed by the Dilworth Visual and Performing Arts Elementary School. The purpose of the board is to strengthen the connection between the school and one of Charlotte NC’s most esteemed neighborhoods.
In 2006 and 2007 O’Quinn found newer success selling his original music catalogs, recordings and downloads online. Singer, songwriter and music business man Bryan O’Quinn worked and contracted with Music Sales Companies who partnered and affiliated with major retail stores doing special music product and merchandising promotions for top popular recording artist like Beyoncé, John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, Jill Scott, Chaka Khan, Diana Ross and Prince all who had new hit music releases for various record companies during this year. Mr. O’Quinn also participated in radio and venue promotions with gospel artist like Troy Sneed and other various secular artists.
Bryan O’Quinn nicknamed “Bo Quinn” by some continues to balance a happy life of single parent fatherhood and his current career demands with elevated goals for the future in music, fashion, television and beyond. His chronicles project Bryan O’Quinn: Profile of a Don (A Retrospective Collection) was initially released in first edition form as a two disc-CD package. The collection of songs was later condensed to a one disc package with new material and alternate takes of his original recordings is scheduled for a 2012 reissue, essentially as an unassuming offering for itself was for his already established fan base and long time supporters. “For me, every song on my new CD is a positive affirmation of where I’ve been as an artist and it is truly a direct acknowledgment and a personal thank you from me to all of my supporters and my core fan base over the years, to the business people who have taught me, I am extremely grateful,” Mr. O’Quinn said.
AP Press Release : Bryan O'Quinn Buzz Single: Bryan O’Quinn Category: Music Neo soul, alternative hip hop I clearly raved about the buzz single "Stay True," which has been getting airplay this year, new material from this talented young musician— I have taken to the song. The song can also be heard on Sound Click internet Radio and his
MySpace page (www.myspace.com/bryanoquinn).
What I love about "…Stay true" is Bryan O’Quinn’s ability to represent both the old school Motown inspired style and the newer generation of a cool but more chic R&B style, his music has been described as that smooth sophisticated dance funk where you’ll just have to get down but you don’t have to get dirty. Stay true is a feel-good message track that should hopefully keep his fan base at ease until his new album arrives . Premix: Bryan O'Quinn [original demo leaked ] Stay True A new single will be released digitally .DANCE and NEO-SOUL CHART LISTINGS This is a listing of seven solo singles released by American Dance/ Neo-soul recording performer
Bryan O’Quinn. Eleven out of Twelve of his singles reached the Soundclick.com Top 40; five reached the Sound click Top 10; In the UK, O’Quinn has amassed a strong dance club music and tribal house fan base following. Youtube.com has ranked his special music video and its accompanying song “More to life (deep drones house remix) #47 - Top Rated – Music (31 October 2008), #38 - Top Rated – Music (01 November 2008) uk.youtube.com/user/BryanOQuinnTV In 2012 More to life [Deep House Vocal Mix] by Bryan O'Quinn youtu.be/WYMLTBATGGU is #2 out of 1700 electronic dance tracks-- listed on the Soundclick.com Digital downloads FREE MP3 streaming so click this link, www.soundclick.com/genres/charts.cfm?genre=Electronic&...
Tribal house is a fusion of various styles of electronic dance music Latin House and African House Here as a producer Mr. O’Quinn distorts the boundaries between dark house, which is an offshoot of progressive house He delivers a more techno-like, yet jazzy kind of house, and mixes intelligent dance music lyrics with a truly spiritual message.
Black Male Models (various) www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4xtI8EwaRw spotlight celebrity Bryan O'Quinn , music and modeling work
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON_3OfxoLB4 Model Work Featured on YouTube
During MSNBC's coverage of the Democratic Convention in Charlotte NC performer Bryan O'Quinn said, "I have to tell you, I've really strong opinions about lot of things, and I do not always verbalize these opinions, because regardless of what I believe people have the right to exist whether it suits my individual scope of the world or not... there is so much more to life !”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4tOW-ff5sU Workin all the time
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353/365 (November 6)
sometimes I hate the meanderings in style I get from my 365
This is John, my brother. Experimenting with taking ok photos with the on-camera flash. I've found shooting in b/w and under exposing by 2 stops seems to make them look slightly more interesting. This is SOOC. Thoughts?
By the way, I'd love if you guys gave me your opinion on a photography project I'm thinking of doing. It's here.
