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Aaron Todd, also known as, ("Aaron Tee" or "Aaron T."), was born Aaron Todd Hatch. He is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter and producer. He is also a respected interviewer on the subjects of art music and politics, and has produced well received artist to artist interviews for radio and television. He has been the featured artist in award winning commercials such as Coca-Cola’s “World Dance” and is affilliated with SAG/AFTRA and BMI. Born in Queens NY, he is the son of 70’s jet-set evangelist, the late Robert E. Hatch. He began his career in the church singing, playing organ, piano and drums, travelling with his father across country. He began recording professionally after his family moved to Columbus Ohio, when discovered at 15 by former Motown staff Producer and recording artist .Bobby Taylor, (Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers). He recorded one album for Bee Tee Records, and was also the lead vocalist for the Taylor produced group Free. After losing both parents, and an older brother, Aaron Todd graduated high school in Columbus Ohio, and moved to Los Angeles California where he would work with Barry White’s Unlimited Gold Records. He was a keyboardist and vocalist on several projects including Barry White’s guitarist Emmit North, and Barry White’s godson, Chuckii Booker, (who would later produce Barry, Lionel Richie, Janet Jackson, Vanessa Williams and many others). It was Chuckii Booker that would introduce Todd to Barry White, and ask him to join his “New World” Project. Between 1990 and 2010, He was mentored in production and songwriting by producers Dale Kimberlin (partner with Gwen Gordy, sister of Motown records founderBerry Gordy), Chris Powell, and high-profile manager Donny Graves, (Fine Young Cannibals, Neneh Cherry). During that time he also was mentored, and co-write with , Grammy Award winning arranger and producer Jerry Peters, (Earth Wind and Fire, Friends of Distinction, Whitney Houston, Kirk Whalum,) Atlantic Records Producer and arranger David Crawford, (Vesta Williams, Confunction, Mighty Clouds of Joy, B.B. King, Candy Stanton) and Keg Johnson,..The Sylvers, Slave, Steve Arrington ). He also caught the eye of Chaka Khan during her Studio 54 Sessions in Passadena CA and played piano on original recordings, with Chaka on drums. He would make the rounds at a number of high profile sessions, including Dionne Warwick's “We Are the World,” style project for abused children called, “Let Them Know We Care.” Aaron Todd was to be a featured vocalist alongside, Martika, Rashaan Patterson, Corey Haim, Melba Moore and many others who have gone on to great success. Aaron Todd continued to write and produce music, while he attended the University of California Irvine to study English/and Comaprative Literature. In early 2000, through 2009, Aaron Todd began performing original material on college campuses and toured California. He later formed a supporting band of well known studio, and touring musicians called Aaron Todd and The Movement, and began opening for artists such as Meshell N’dege O’cello, Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise, Billy Cobham, Neo Soul recording Artist Dwele, Glenn Tillbrook and Squeeze. In addition Aaron Todd has participated in a number of youth music awareness exchanges in Los Angeles, Santa Ana, and Gueret France. In 2010 Aaron Todd began producing Soul on Sunset, and T’s Independent Soul, two independent interview programs, one recorded for radio, and the other in a variety of live audience settings. Interviews included conversations with Rosie Gaines, Geraldo Rivera, Leon Sylvers, Cornel West, Chalmers Johnson, Kristina Borjessen, Robert Townsend and others. Some of these programs became an award-winning part of the Sprouts network and aired on NPR and Pacifica stations nationally, and on the web world-wide.

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Aaron Todd has spent over 20 years in music and business. As an artist, he was first signed with Motown's Bobby Taylor at the young age of 15. He has shared the stage, and studio with some of music's most important artists, including Chaka Khan, Earth Wind and Fire, Squeeze, Jazz-legend Billy Cobham, Rock and Roll legend, Robby Krieger (of the Doors), and many others. In addition, he has been featured in national, and international ads for one of the world's most successful brands, Coca-Cola. In 1999, Aaron founded Wisdom Project Consulting, (which would become WisdomProject/Blacktree and includes the brands, Soul on Sunset, T's Independent Soul, Black Tree Recordings, Ath Note Productions, and AaronTMade). He entered the business arena combining a unique skill set, designed to help entrepreneurs address a new frontier that included social networking, and a more informed, more demanding consumer. He has helped to coach and inspire new and existing businesses, both nationally, and internationally, through a unique philosophy of customer "connected-ness." This is a heightened awareness of people, and business trends, rooted in the idea that finding the "music" in the relationship with the customer is elemental, not an afterthought. He believes that with the right coaching, this approach can lead to a more beneficial experience for the customer, and a lasting, more fulfilling success for the entrepreneur. For more on how these concepts are applied in the real world, look for Aaron Todd's book "The Tao of Music: On Living a Musical Life, and Using Left Brain Tools in a Right Brain World" which will be available soon. ​ ​ Some of our clients: -ABA Unique Limousine Service -DaDa Shoes -MyLena Entertainment -PN Investment Services LLC -School Entertainment Activities Program -The City of La Palma ​-Zaferia Shalom Zone ​-CampFire Boys and Girls -Live Magazine -International Business Times -The Late Sofia Gons, French Singer/Songwriter and many others. . .