MUSIC’S MULTITALENTED THREAT:
Introducing Tasha Catour by Donte Harvey
“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand. With an equal opportunity for all to sing, dance and clap their hands.” This stanza from the song Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder perfectly describes the awesomeness of this outstanding woman who has mastered the language of music. In a male dominated industry, she has not only proven to be a force to be reckoned with, but also has created a name and legacy for herself. Tasha Catour is a queen when it comes to the music producing world. Grammy award winning producer, with a host of other accolades, Tasha knows that she is simply the best. Clothed in both humility and confidence, her repertoire of artists that she has worked with includes Future, Keke Palmer, Tokyo Vanity, Rich Homie Quan, Kevin Gates and many more. As a producer, songwriter, singer, and engineer, this quadruple threat has caught the attention of many people beyond the city limits of Atlanta. With a multi-layered background in music, she says that industry magnetized her. Her dad was a singer and she and her sisters would make up songs. She started out singing in church, from singing in choirs to solos. This musical background helped establish her style. A style that has earned her top-charting records with
production credit, television and film credit as well as BET awards, Dove awards, Grammys and a mentorship program that she established to help the next generation of producers. She’s always been a hustler and has always known what kind of life that she has wanted to live. From balancing motherhood and family, to juggling a successful career, I think it is safe to promote Tasha Catour as the Michelle Obama of the music producing world. She got her start in the music world when she wrote a hook for Miami based rapper and femme-c, Trina. “I thought that I was going to blow up after that,” she exclaims. After writing the hook for Trina, her hustle and ambitious persona started to peak. She started to branch off into other areas. From a songwriter, she learned how to engineer and compose beats. This allowed her to record artists and sell beats that she cooked up in the lab. From being an engineer and composer, she decided to take it to the next level and produce artists. Her production skills were so stellar, that she caught the attention of
Atlanta based rapper Future, and he signed her as a producer to his label, Freebandz. With all this success going on, she still has time to give back to the next generation of producers and songwriters coming up in the music industry, Camp Catour. Camp Catour was instituted to help push music creatives to the next level by cultivating their gifts and talents. This is one of her ways of giving back. As she reflects on her years in the music industry, her advice to up and coming producers is ‘don’t be stingy’ with their beats. They never know where their next big hit is coming from, always being open to exposure and networking. Songwriter, engineer, composer, producer; Tasha Catour has proven that she can pretty much do everything in the music business, and even better than her male counterparts. ISSUE #5 | 16
