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Bruce Dees lives in
Nashville, Tennessee and has been fortunate
in that he has been associated with many
wonderful recording artists and been
involved with quite a few hit records as a
session guitar player, background vocalist,
arranger, producer and engineer in the years
he's been here. Basically, he's been a
studio rat since his early experience in
Augusta, Georgia where a friend and he built
a recording studio totally by the seat of
their pants. In that original studio they
recorded every thing from local rock bands
(including his), acoustic based
singer/songwriters, black gospel giants such
as Shirley Caesar, The Mighty Clouds of Joy
and the Swanee Quintet all the way to, and
he's very proud to say, many sessions and
classic recordings by the truly legendary
James Brown. |
Among other amazing people,
Bruce has had a long association with the
also legendary Ronnie Milsap. Bruce played
the main electric guitars and sang with him
and others on records such as “There Ain’t
No Gettin’ Over Me”, (lead guitar, Ronnie
and Bruce on backgrounds) “Smoky Mountain
Rain” (lead guitar, Bruce was the 4th girl
in the background group), and “Lost In the
Fifties Tonight” (Bruce played guitar,
Ronnie and Bruce doing all the background
parts). Pretty cool since teaching himself
to play guitar and sing in the front bedroom
at his grandmother’s house listening to
Beatle records.
A few years back Bruce shifted his focus to
starting his own record label, Offrow
Records, a production company, Bruce Dees
Productions and two music publishing
companies, Gerry Bruce Music/ASCAP and
Notkintorick Music/BMI. The main company
that heads them all up is Prentice-Ritter
Entertainment. We are also getting involved
with some wonderfully talented people in the
artist promotion business and video
production. |
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Michele Rahmani
attended the College for Recording Arts in
San Francisco from 1984-1986 and graduated
with a degree in Music Business and Audio
Engineering. Afterwards, she worked at
Little Huey Music (Huey Lewis’ publishing
company), Was a backup engineer with Fred
Catero (Santana and The Grateful Dead) and
served an internship at Fantasy Studios, San
Francisco, CA and Hyde Street Studios and
Lucas Films.
In 1986 Michele moved to Nashville to work
with John Denny, co-owner of Cederwood Music
and The Denny Music Group as copyright
manager and studio manager/engineer. |
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In 1992, she became
studio manager for Music Row Audio a world
class recording studio in the heart of Music
Row. From 1995-1999 she was Copyright
Manager for Milsap Galbraith Music. In 1999,
Michel became Copyright Manager for
Prentice-Ritter (Gerry Bruce Music, ASCAP
and NOTKINTORICK Music, BMI) and Production
Co-coordinator for producer Bruce Dees. |
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