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Educate the Culture
Meet Our Team
Co-Founder, Board Member
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Torey Best
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Torey Best is a brand management & strategy specialist, composer/arranger, and standing instructor at a variety of educational institutions. Born in Columbus, Georgia to a family of musicians, he received his Bachelor of Arts in Music with an emphasis in composition from Morehouse College.
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Torey has had his musical works featured by the Westobou Festival, Morehouse College, and the High Museum of Modern Art and worked alongside the likes of Dina Marto, the LoopHoles, Ian Burke, T. Lang Dance, Icon Studios, Twelve Music & Studio, Beats x Beers, and many more. He currently serves as the Director of Empowerment for the Everyone Eats Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on improving underprivileged communities through events and giveback initiatives focused on millennial and youth engagement.
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With his passion for community empowerment, development, and enrichment stemming from personal experience with poverty, crime, and violence throughout his upbringing, Torey is passionately dedicated to evoking the truest growth in minds & hearts throughout the world, operating under the mantra, “Building leaders to build better leaders in turn.”
Co-Founder, Board Member
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Brandon Corder
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B.Corder, born Brandon Corder in Flint, MI got his start in music at the age of 12 when he received his very first keyboard. Corder began to take his then hobby serious when he saw an interview with his favorite Timbaland, speaking about being a professional music producer. As his efforts and talents progressed Corder began to produce his own albums and feature unsigned artists.
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His production duo, “Foreign Allegiance”, with fellow Flint native ‘Bengie’, went on to win Vibe Magazine and McDonald’s ‘Big Mix’ producer challenge. From this Corder landed one of his biggest placements, producing the Big K.R.I.T. record “What You Know About It”. Corder and Bengie decided to create a full project of original music; their debut album ‘Beats x Beers’. They secured their first concert stage in 2015 at SXSW. The Beats x Beers tour traveled to over 8 cities allowing the best artist in that area to showcase their talent.
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Brandon Corder's message is bigger than music festivals and production credits, those are just the vehicles to his main purpose; the people. As a recent recipient of the Champion Award from the National Clean Water Collective for his work in the community through arts and music and guest speaking on a dozen informational panels, Corder is reaching the people to incite change through creativity and conversation.
Business Management, Board Member
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Wsir Amen
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Wsir Amen, CEO of Thee Agency management and full service concierge, has sat on the board for Beats x Books since it’s establishment. Getting his musical start from Memphis,TN where he entered “the Industry” as a performance artist, Wsir Amen performed musical theater for Memphis’ world famous Orpheum Theeater appearing in such notable productions as Porgy and Bess and Lion King.
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Transitioning soon after his three year stint in Memphis’s musical scene, he leveraged his musical and creative talents to intersect other entertainment industry sectors; acting as key creative contributoR for notable campaigns for Flava Unit, Covergirl cosmetics, and Bronner Brothers inc. With a B.A. in management from Morehouse College, he has utilized his wealth of multi-industry workings and the networks he has built to even the playing field. With a heavy interest in philanthropy, he continues to give back to his community in many ways; most notably service works with his Fraternal Brothers of the music fraternity PHI MU ALPHA NATIONAL FRATERNITY INCORPORATED, where he acted as Chapter Vice President.
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Using the platform of Beats x Books he seeks to influence and prepare aspiring artists, engineers, and industry entrepreneurs through the use of innovative marketing, brand awareness, and creative direction.
Secretary, Board Member
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Donovan Polk
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