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Andrew Gouche
Musically soulful, Bassist, Grammy award winning Andrew Gouche has over 30 years of experience with the bass guitar. His music lies in Gospel, but he performs a wider musical blend of Jazz and R&B, he shows this with his album We Don’t Need No Bass, it reaches out to all generations and genres.

Early life
Andrew Gouche was born in Los Angeles. He began singing at his grandfather’s church with his grandfather being the pastor, and his mom lead singer of the choir. At the age of eight Andrew adopted the trumpet for 7 years, and eight years later at age 15 he found his purpose in life when he came upon the bass guitar. He proceeded sharpening his artistry during the late 70’s while he played with Rev. James Cleveland on several live, and studio recordings.

Career
Working in the gospel industry paved the way for his first R&B appearance with Cheryl Lynn, after that he got called to do plenty of recording sessions, with Prince, Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson, Michael Jackson, Chaka Khan, Patti Labelle, Heather Headley, Snoop Dogg, and Earth, Wind & Fire. His career also paved the way to being able to play on some of the biggest stages in film like, The Grammy Awards, Soul Train Music Awards, Arsenio Hall Show, Good Morning America, MTV Awards, Jimmy Kimmel Show, The Five Heartbeats, The Lion King and The Color Purple, and 10 years a Musical Director for The Mc Donalds Gospelfest. He musically grew from then, which lead to him producing music, he was a producer on the Mary Mary debut album Thankful which he was awarded his first grammy for, and later on was nominated the 2008 GMA Dove award for Traditional Gospel Album, from producing several records for many artists.