Madison Cunningham is an American singer-songwriter from Orange County, California, who performs a mixture of folk and pop music. Cunningham began playing guitar at only 7 years old and she also grew up singing at her local church where her father was a worship pastor. By the time she was a teenager, Cunningham began writing her own songs and started... read full bio
Tim Menzies is an American country and Christian music singer-songwriter from Mechanicsville, Virginia. He started performing at only 3 years old with a band his mother was in. The band opened for artists such as Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash. By the time Menzies was only 8, he began to play the mandolin in the band before quitting music for... read full bio
Gene Moore is an American gospel singer based out of Houston, Texas. While growing up, Moore was a son of two pastors and was often at his local church surrounded by gospel music. He started singing with the Southeast Inspirational Choir as a teenager and although he originally pursued broadcasting as a career, he found himself going back to his... read full bio
The Terraza Big Band is an eighteen-piece ensemble band that was brought together and is under the director of co-directors, bassist Edward Perez, and award-winning saxophonist and composer Michael Thomas. The group is based out of Queens, New York and they perform monthly at Terraza 7 in Jackson Heights. The band consists of all of New York’s in-demand jazz musicians.... read full bio
Brian Lynch is a jazz trumpeter who has won several Grammy Awards over the years. He has previously been a member of Eddie Palmieri’s Afro-Caribbean Jazz group, has led the Latin Side of Mile project and has led his own group, Brian Lynch Big Band. Lynch has won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album for “Simpatico” with Eddie... read full bio
Mike Holober is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and educator whose various projects includes performing with the Mike Holober Quintet and The Gotham Jazz Orchestra. Holober started his career in New York as a composer and sideman pianist. He later started working with Nick Brignola and together they formed The Mike Holober Quintet. Together, the quintet have released two... read full bio
Miho Hazama is a Japanese composer, arranger, jazz musician, and conductor from Tokyo, Japan who is currently based out of New York City. Hazama began playing the electric keyboard at only 3 years old at Yamaha Music Foundation’s School. She later proceeded to the final of Junior Electone Concours when she was only 10 years old which earned her local... read full bio
Anat Cohen is an Israeli born jazz musician from Tel Aviv. She can play instruments such as the clarinet, saxophone and is also a tenor and soprano singer. Cohen started playing the clarinet and saxophone at a young age and she went on to study at the Berklee College of Music. Shortly after, she started recording alongside her brothers Avishai... read full bio
Joey DeFrancesco is an American jazz organist, trumpeter, and vocalist from Springfield, Pennsylvania. He performs a mixture of jazz and bebop music and has released over 30 albums over the years some of which includes work with Miles Davis and Jimmy Smith. DeFrancesco was born into a musical inclined family. His grandfather was a jazz musician as well and his... read full bio
Tierney Sutton is an American jazz singer from Omaha, Nebraska who performed with the Tierney Sutton Band. Sutton grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and earned her bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She also studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Sutton’s band has also consisted of members such as Christian Jacob, Trey Henry, Kevin Axt,... read full bio
Jazzmeia Horn is an American jazz singer-songwriter from Dallas, Texas. Horn has studied at the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas and after, she moved to New York where she studied at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. While studying in New York City, Horn formed a group with Javier... read full bio
Christian McBride is an American jazz bassist, guitarist, composer and arranger from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. McBride started his career playing the bass guitar but switched to double bass and started studying at the Juilliard School. When he was only 17 years old, McBride joined Bobby Watson’s group and played with musicians such as Freddie Hubbard, George Duke, Benny Golson, Milt Jackson,... read full bio
Sebastian Plano is an Argentinian composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. Plano’s music is a mixture of contemporary and modern classic music and he can play instruments such as the cello, piano and is also a percussionist. Plano started playing the cello when he was only 7 years old and by the time he was only 12,... read full bio
Peter Kater is a German-born American composer, pianist and Grammy Award winning musician. When Kater was four years old he moved from Germany to New Jersey and then started studying classical piano. While growing up, Kater moved around from city to city before settling into Los Angeles where he built his own studio and started his own record label. From... read full bio
Dylan Marlowe is an up-and-coming country singer-songwriter based out of Nashville, Tennessee. Marlowe was born and raised in Statesboro, Georgia, and later moved to Nashville to pursue songwriting full-time and to pursue a solo career. While growing up, Marlowe played baseball and it wasn’t until high school that he started writing and playing guitar. Since moving to Nashville, Marlowe has... read full bio
Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a Thai landscape architect and CEO of Porous City Network, an enterprise that increases urban resilience in Southeast Asia. Voraakhom is also a TED fellow and founder of the Koungkuey Design Initiative which rebuilds public spaces with communities. Voraakhom earned her bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture from Chulalongkorn University and she went on to complete her graduate... read full bio
Mei Mei Hu is the Chief Executive Officer, co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors of United Neuroscience. As CEO of United Neuroscience, Hu works on finding new ways to fight brain diseases like Alzheimer’s. She urges her directors of United Neuroscience to pioneer a new class of endobody vaccines to train the immune system to produce specific... read full bio
Tristan Walker is the founder and CEO of Walker & Company Brands. Walker graduated from State University of New York at Stony Brook with a B.A. in Economics. From there, he went on to earn his MBA in Business Administration and Management from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. During his last year in school, Walker started his career as... read full bio
Joel Martinez, better known as his stage name The Kid Mero, is a Dominican-American writer, comedian, television and YouTube personality, actor and blogger. He rose to fame as one-half of the duo Desus vs. Mero which was first a podcast on Complex TV and has since become a television talk show on Viceland. Mero has also been a cast member... read full bio
Tabata Amaral is a Brazilian political scientist, education activist and politician from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is a member of the Democratic Labor Party and has co-founder of the political organizations; Movimento Mapa Educacao and Acredito. Amaral was educated in local public schools and when she was 12, she participated in the Brazilian Public School Mathematics Olympiad. She won a... read full bio
