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Sponsored by Spotify for Podcasters, Lyrically Correct, also in partnership with Pandora. Ray Ray's Podcast is back from the 9th floor of Hello Studios. On this episode, we have the founder of “Up Next Festival” (@upnextfestival) Tee-C (@teecgroovechild). We talked with Tee-C about his journey putting “Up Next Festival” together, and we also talked with the amazing 16yr old music artist Vex (@vextheartist) about performing at the festival and his new single that just released. As always, Big thanks to Tite (@Tite1205) for our Intro from his single "Get'n Paid" ft Chalie Boy. Visit our Website www.RayRaysPodcast.com for all of our amazing content. Continue to follow us on all social media IG @rayrays_podcast Facebook.com/RayRaysPodcast and TikTok @rayrayspodcast. Follow us on youtube. Like and Subscribe on Youtube Please.
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CEO
Terrance Crowell Jr, known as Tee-C was born in Long Beach, CA. Then eventually moved to Evansville, IN. While in high school, Tee-C began recording music and started doing local shows. Once he graduated high school he knew he wanted to be a full time artist. While Tee-C attended college he released multiple projects and had independent labels interested, he also dabbled in acting as well, where he made an appearance on the 2013 TLC biopic “CRAZYSEXYCOOL.” When those deals fell through for the record deals, Tee-C decided to go behind the scenes as an independent label CEO to navigate his own destiny.
In 2020 Tee-C met artist Siobhan Linnane on IG and the two started working together. Soon afterwards Tee-C signed Siobhan to his Independent label “Groove Child Records”.
In 2022, while attending his artist Siobhan Linnane’s show he noticed something, there was nothing at the show to help any artist reach. There were no media outlets, no sponsors, or decent sized crowd to help build any artist reach, engagement, and buzz. The promotion and booking agencies were not doing their part to help the artists in Tee-C’s opinion. He felt it was only about the money for them. He knew it was a void that needed to be filled in the industry, not just the DFW area. He decide after that to start his own festival, which would be called “UPNEXT FESTIVAL”. Which would showcase all of the up and coming talent, media outlets, brands, and influencers from around the world. He wanted it to be more than just a local festival, he wanted it to be worldwide. On July 29th, 2022 the first a… Read More
