Biography~
Troy Barnett, the founder, CEO, and president of Phat Barz Records & Multimedia started playing music at the age of 10. His first instrument was the trumpet. Through high school he expanded his talent and skill to the entire brass family of instruments while gaining gigging experience with the Young Professional Musicians of Houston (Young Sounds Of Houston). At the age of sixteen he organized his own five member jazz band; they began performing in jazz clubs throughout the city of Houston, TX. Summer months were spent participating and studying in the Summer Jazz Workshop conducted annually by the late Professor Conrad Johnson, Bubba Thomas, Kyle Turner, Joe Sample, Barry Hall (Director-Duke Ellington Orchestra), and others on the campuses of St. Thomas and Texas Southern Universities. He later taught himself to play the organ and the piano before attending Texas Southern and Sam Houston State Universities. He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), the Writers Guild of America, and a Master Mason. He has played for many regional and national recording artists such as Kim Burrell-Young, Mark Gordon and Eternal Life Ministries, Charles Tyrone, Darius Brooks (Musical Director of the late Rev. Milton Brunsons Thompson Community Singers), Adrian Medearis and GODS Anointed People (GAP), Shawn McClemore, and has even shared the stage with Wynton Marsalis and Dr. Shirley Caesar. Troy presses to encourage young people of all ages, musicians AND non-musicians, that success is not in notoriety, but believing in and unleashing ones own abilities. He has provided musical accompaniment for the Missy Chu Childrens Book entitled, "What Color Is Monday?", and the theme song for the Historically Black College Queens Workshop' entitled, "All Hail The Queen". He currently mentors and tutors young musicians in the urban areas of Houston, TX. He has recently completed co-production of a Latin/Pop/R&B project with the immensely talented youth based super-group "Soulsa Caliente" of the Diaz Music Institute. Betsy Ross Elementary called on him to compose the music for their student written school song...he deems it an honor! Troy's first project was the original music soundtrack for the theatrical stage production of Mary Terry Wiley's new 'Soul Opera', "For Your Souls Sake". The latest is Album, "I'm Not Him" featuring his band Raw Energy and late 19 year old guitarist Alex Milam (R.I.P.)
To hear go towww.cdbaby.com/all/tbarnett
Not only is Troy a producer & musician but he is an actor as well...watch this clip as Hosea & Rev. Will Bee Dunn!
Troy, mgr Crystal Stone, Kandi Eastman of 102.1 fm & promoter Oscar McGarr
Troy & Ann Harris Bennett, county clerk election party
Troy cover of Jam Source