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Shawn Wallace
Shawn's musical styles range from Gospel to Jazz to Hip-Hop and beyond. As keyboardist,
he has worked with luminary artists such as Common, Ice Cube, Bobby Brown, Dwele, Johnny
Gill, Jon B., Bilal, Estelle, Julie Dexter, Rene Neufville, Rakim, Eric Roberson, Maggie
Brown, Ugochi, and Cherisse Scott. He was featured as keyboardist in the underground concert
television hit, Clubbin’ TV. A native of Chicago's far Southwest side, Shawn studied Music
Theory and Composition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and currently
serves as Musical Director for two New Thought congregations: The Emmaus Center and the
Namaste Center for Spiritual Living-Chicago.
Shawn has worked for several years as a Teaching Artist throughout Chicago schools teaching Record Production and Theatre Tech to youth from 6th through 12th grades. His independent film score credits include Severed Ties (Showcase Productions/Lions Gate Films), Puzzle Love (Storybox Productions) and Son of America (Tanskin Productions/N'Spire Entertainment INC). Commercial credits include work for Jet Magazine, Mississippi Rick's and Arby's. The versatile artist has worked on a film documentary, You'll Be A Man (Testuvaman Filmworks) and is also working as Musical Arranger and Musical Director on Charleston Olio by Ifa Bayeza, co-author of Some Sing, Some Cry with Intozake Shange. |
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Tubman FPE Records FPE 024 recorded in Chicago, IL/USA |
Avery R. Young, conductor Lení Glenn-McKinney, tenor sax, baritone sax Fred Jackson, sax Jeff Livorsi, trombone Sam Trump, trumpet Corey Wilkes, trumpet Nicole Mitchell, flute Carlos Pride, slide guitar Shawn Wallace, Farfisa organ, synthesizer, piano Alex Wing, theremin Maceo Haymes, electronic devices Billy Branch, harmonica Phyllis Calderon, violin Tomeka Reid, cello Bishop Jae, bass Tatsu Aoki Taiko, drums Jovia Armstrong, percussion Rev. Deac, percussion Marcus Evans, washboard, vocals Chris Paquette, percussion A. R-Rah, tambourine Jureia Thomas, tambourine Tiaybe Bledsoe, vocals De Blk Future, vocals Big Bro, vocals Mae Koen, vocals John De Revelator, vocals Mario Smith, vocals Blessed Prayer Warrior, vocals Yaw, vocals |
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