About
KEVIN GRADNIGO
Kevin began to seek the voice of God on his role in music. After graduating from Full Sail University with an Associate of Science Degree in Recording Arts. Upon receiving his degree Kevin returned to Louisiana to start his own business as an Engineer/Producer and opened his own studio called Jesus Is Lord Productions(JIL Productions). While being self employed for 2 and a half years here, Kevin co-wrote, produced and engineered 4 separate full length album projects for local recording artists. This self employment was prematurely cut short by the devastating blow from hurricane Katrina.
Shortly following this setback, Kevin was met with an opportunity to began his music career full time by signing as an artist/producer with GospoFella Entertainment/Indie Extreme/INGrooves Fontana. Kevin has since released his first single "Constantly", which was featured on the company's first CD compilation "GospoFella Entertainment Presents, The Countdown." After being released, Constantly peaked at number number 65 on the BDS Gospel 100 chart. The song, like all of his music, is a blend of modern electronic and CCM. Constantly was nominated for "best gospel song" of the year at the 2013 South Florida Gospel Music Awards, while Kevin G The Music Maker was also nominated and won "Best Hip-Hop Artist of the Year." He has also been nominated at the Prayze Factor Peoples Choice Awards for "Best Contemporary Christian Artist, Solo" and "Best Gospel Neo Soul Artist, Solo." Currently the video for his single Constantly has over 100,000 views on Youtube and is featured on the Uplifting Entertainment channel (formerly known as The Gospel Music Channel)
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Kevin also has an extensive film industry tracklist, In 2006, he began to work for Louisiana Media Services for two years, working on projects such as Shotgun Stories (2007) starring Michael Shannon (Man of Steel) which was awarded five independent film festival awards. He was also associated with films such at Cleaner (2007) starring Samuel L Jackson, Nine Dead (2007) starring Melissa Joan Hart and Are You Scared 2 (2009) LionsGate, where he operated as chief sound designer and composer. Since then he has worked on and been associated with 12 additional films.
LATERA GRADNIGO
Latera is a graduate of The University of Mary Washington with a Bachelors of Arts Degree with a concentration in Musical Theatre. Latera has been performing her entire life since age three with 10 plus years of professional experience performing. With a passionate belief of a future in music, Latera decided to follow her calling as a singer and record her first full length album. Having written several original songs, Latera decided to travel to Nashville to the world renowned Daywind Studio for completing the album. Her album was produced by dove award winning producer/writer Marty Funderburk know for his No. 1 singles – the Kingdom Heirs’ hit “Forever Changed” and the Talley Trio’s chart-topping “Life Goes On.”.
Shortly after graduating, she and her mother wrote a musical play called “God is Pissed,” which has been performed in local church theaters. She worked with world renowned choreographer/Tapper, Walter “Sundance” Freeman on the play.
Latera and two of her friends formed a group called Danee. She and her group Danee gave free concerts for the troops at many bases such as Quantico Marine base, Camp Lejunne, Pensacola Naval Air Station and many others. They also gave away her CDs free to troops outbound to Iraq and Afghanistan as a way to say thank to the troops for serving our country. To show their appreciation for the event in Pensacola, she received an autographed portrait signed by each of the famed “Blue Angels” aerial team. Concurrently while performing at the bases, they released their first gospel single, “Change” and began a tour around churches performing and speaking. Latera also was the runner-up in Fredericksburg country Idol 2013
