User:Theresa Minors

Theresa E. Minors (born March 6th, 1975 in Bermuda and popularly known as Totty Minors or Totty), is a talent/artist manager. She is perhaps best known for her Developing Artist Program (D.A.P.) which caters to young Bermudians between the ages of 13 and 18 who are interested in learning more about the music industry as well as her success as an Entreprenuer, CEO and Founder of PlayList Management, LLC.

History
Theresa was raised in Devonshire, Bermuda. Born to parents, Vincent and Cecelia Moore, she is the only child of her father but the youngest sibling and only girl of three when it comes to her mother. Although her brothers Thayne and Terry Greene are distant in age and, along with her father, were pretty much out of the house while she was growing up, they always had a close relationship. Theresa attended a neighbourhood school, Elliott Primary and then went on to attend the Berkeley Institute graduating in 1994. Her passion and hobbies always stood in the relm of music, animals, art and fishing.

Upon leaving Berkeley, Theresa decided to explore careers and challenge herself to obtain success in each area of her interests. There were no limits and no solid direction. Her exploration in career experience spanned from Mortuary Science(embalming), Kennel Assistant, Dolphin Trainer, Animal Warden, Animal/Puppy Imports, and Car Wash Manager. During this time, Theresa obtained her bachelors degree in Animal Science from Breyer State University, an associates degree as a Veterinary Assistant, and a Justice of the Peace designation all while being a wife to David Sinclair Minors, a mother of three and volunteering/performing with The Somerset Brigade Band (snare drum), K and K Gombey Troupe (snare drum), The Bermuda African Drummers and a brief stint in the Bermuda Pipe Band. After years of exploring careers, hobbies and traveling to Ghana, in 2009, she was introduced to Artist Management, and encouraged by a long time friend, Jason "J.J" Sylvain to embrace her passion in music and strength in business.

Career
Although Theresa and her husband had supported J.J's career since 1990, when he suggested Theresa coming on board as management, she was hesitant. Despite Theresa not being familiar with the music industry, she accepted the challenge and committed to managing JJ and The Indigo Sunset Band for one year. During this time, Theresa studied all aspects of the music industry and reached out to friends in the UK and the USA who would help her learn what she needed to know quickly. Interviews and airplay were quickly set up with Elijah Hall of Bang Radio for their self titled album. Subsequently, they landed a write up in Soul Survivor magazine as their Jazz Fusion album quickly became a hit and demanded in UK stores. Distribution was then set up as The Indigo Sunset Band landed in stores across the UK.

In looking at what she had accomplished in a few short months, she transformed into entreprenural mode and by February 2010, formed PlayList Managament, LLC based out of Atlanta, Georgia. While managing a carwash in Bermuda full-time, she spent whatever time she could find studying the music industry, promoting and developing the band and branding PlayList Management, LLC (PLM) all while being a wife and a mother. However, Theresa faced challenges in gaining the momentum she was looking for due to being far away from the band who were located in the USA, being new to the field and Bermuda not having a solid music market to draw reference from. A year of committment was about to extend as she aimed to make ties with studios, radio stations,clubs, promoters, entertainment lawyers and other Indy artists.

This challenge inspired Theresa to start a Developing Artist Program (D.A.P.). This program catered to young artists 13 to 18 years of age, located in bermuda, who were interested in learning more about the music industry. The first introduction of the program, she invited members of The Indigo Sunset Band, JJ and John Beal to visit the music room of local schools. Kids then auditioned for an opportunity to visit Atlanta for a week intensive in music. Sponsors supported three young men the first year who learned about perfecting their craft, studio production, lawyers and contracts, song writing, performance and recording. Due to the success of the first year, the second year grew to four kids being sponsored out of 20 auditions from the previous year's 11 as well as guest appearances by Tommy Ford, Miguel Gaetanand the ability for the students to record out of Enkore Studio. In completing the program's first record, called PlayThing. The song landed on Bermuda's top radio station, Hott107.5 and was the most requested song holding the number 1 spot for 15 consecutive weeks and totalled 26 weeks being on the radio before it faded out. No one thought that the program could possibly top the previous year. The D.A.P. saw a total of 31 auditions in 2012 and were able to gather sponsors for seven kids to attend the week intensive training. The 2012 program had visitors Marquez Etheridge who wrote "WaterFalls" for TLC, Issa Thompson- a young rap artist, K-Star and Skyn Tyte from P-Funk, Chet Brewster, Darnel Williams, and Studio Stephany, on top of their regular team, JJ Sylvain, Kyle Williams, John Beal (Orange Room Studios), TommyWhY, and Toni Dyer. The song producer that year was entitled "Misfits".

A midst the years of the Developing Artist Program, Theresa had some very serious decisions to make. Theresa still had not made the necessary contacts in the States and had exhausted her personal finances in trying to develop the band and keep them together. It was also becoming even more difficult to maintain everything while remaining in Bermuda for the most part and keeping a full time job. In January 2011, Theresa decided that it was time to make a decision to go into her career as artist management full time. The Indigo Sunset Band were still having discrepancies and difficulty harmonizing. This caused them to dissolve the band. Theresa's hopes in rectifying the problems within the band did not work. At that time while spending months in Atlanta at a time, Theresa was introduced to Gary Harris, a well-known Jazz Sax player and Cris Caroline, an aspiring pop artist. In convincing Theresa to take them on, she went to work then realized that the motivation on the artists' part did not equal the motivation and dedication Theresa had with her new found passion. Therefore, that also faded out.

Theresa decided to head back to Bermuda and re-evaluate. Keeping with her passion and determination not to quit, PlayList Management, LLC, has found and gained new clients. Infamous Vibes also known as IVibes displayed more talent, motivation and hunger than Theresa had seen from surrounding artists. Despite all the submissions and introductions to local and International indy artists, Theresa did not come across anyone who had the same determination and vision. IVibes, a team of four Bermudian producers had spent time branding themselves to create Victims of Existence and ILL-Logical Linguistics. Having over ten years of experience in production their bio extended to display producing and writing records for Collie Buddz, Luciano, Frankie Paul, Dylan Dillanger and Qwest. Their stage performance also saw them opening at Bermuda concerts for Mr. Vegas, Dead Prez, Trevor Hall, and Wayne Wonder. Within the first two months of managing this team, Theresa had exceeded their expectations to accomplish feats that they had not been able to accomplish in their entire ten year career. They had produced their first record A Place With A Vibe under PlayList Management and within two weeks of their release was nominated for the Hollywood Music and Media Awards in LA (HMMA). She was also able to get them a Distribution deal with SunToucher/Sony merger and have their previous music video on Tempo Networks. "A Place With A Vibe" also claimed the number one spot on both Bermuda radio stations Hott107.5 and Power 95 (Tha Underground) at the same time.

At the same time, she was able to get ill-Logical Linguistics to record the single "Go Slow". This track was also nominated for that year's HMMAs. With her connections in the US, she was able to organize a video shoot for "A Place With A Vibe" by Videographer Darnel Williams, who had worked on The Monique Show & Sunday Best for BET. The video was submitted to Hip Hop megasite, WorldStarHiphop.com, where it garnered over 28,000 views. In September 2012, Theresa received word that the Hollywood Music In Media Awards Executive Producer wanted to offer ill-Logical Linguistics a spot to perform at the awards show in November in Los Angeles.