Om’Mas Keith

A local of Hollis, Queens, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, arranger, manufacturer, and engineer Om’Mas Keith was created to jazz instrumentalist Michael Keith and vocalist Mekea Keith. The initial instrument he found was the drums, but he was quick to build up his musicianship along with familiarizing himself with many areas of the music sector, from the documenting procedure up. While still an adolescent, Keith kept an internship placement on the RCA label, was trained by Potential Roach on the School of Massachusetts, and proved helpful beside Run-D.M.C.’s Jam Professional Jay. One of is own first high-profile collaborations was included with the L.A.-structured group Fresh Breed, whose Blood, Sweat & Tears album included his input. In 2000, Keith aligned with Fresh Breed of dog associate Shafiq Husayn and Taz Arnold as Sa-Ra Innovative Companions. The trio created monitors for Bilal, Pharoahe Monch, and Jurassic 5 before debuting being a documenting group in 2004 with singles released on ABB and Ubiquity. As the group blossomed with full-length tasks for Babygrande and Ubiquity, all three associates continued to use separately and jointly on several albums, including Jay-Z’s Kingdom Arrive, Rick Ross’ Rise to Power, Jill Scott’s True Thing, Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah, Pt. 1, and Husayn’s very own Shafiq En’ A-Free-Ka. On a comparatively underground level, Keith collaborated with Africa Hitech’s Tag Pritchard (on “Blowing wind It Up,” a 2009 one for Hyperdub), aswell as Subeena and Jamie Woon (on the 2009 one for World Mu). In past due 2010/early 2011, soon after Keith caused Diddy within the Producing His Band tv series and Last Teach to Paris recording, he released his 1st solo solitary, “Uh Oh It’s Like,” a limited-pressing solitary. Around once, FALLOUT Boy’s Patrick Stump released Truant Influx, an EP offering creation and vocals from Keith. After co-producing Frank Ocean’s Grammy-nominated 2012 recording Route Orange, he self-released his personal recording, the freaky Town Pulse, and managed to get available as a free of charge digital download in January 2013.