Bridgette is currently an adjunct professor at Bethune-Cookman University teaching music business courses as well as a certified Volusia County Schools K-12 music educator. Bridgette is Pro Tools certified and continues to write, record, and perform whenever and wherever she can.

episode 5:

Tuesday, FEBRUARY 6, 6-8pm

She has exhibited and featured her work at Chicago Cultural Center; Experimental Sound Studio; EXPO Chicago; Heaven Gallery; Hyde Park Jazz Festival; Krasl Art Center, MI; Lit & Luz Festival, US/MX; Millennium Park Pritzker Pavilion; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; New Gallery of Modern Art, NC; Washington Project for the Arts, DC; Weinberg/Newton Gallery.

bridgette pulliam

Bridgette Bazunu Pulliam is a singer/songwriter with a heart for people and a deep love for music. Born in Iruekpen, Nigeria she later immigrated to the United States where music would become a driving force in her life. As a young girl, her father DJed often. This afforded exposure to various musical genres and artists. Over time she would cite Michael Jackson, Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys, India.Arie, and Whitney Houston as some of her greatest musical influences. Not only is she a talented, versatile vocalist, Bridgette is also an accomplished scholar with a Master's of Arts degree in Music Business from New York University. She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music with a concentration in Music Technology from Bethune-Cookman University (Daytona Beach, FL). Her post secondary education began at Valencia College (Orlando, FL) where she earned her Associate of Science in Music Production Technology and Associate of Arts degree in General Studies simultaneously. Bridgette has had a significant amount of experience in the recording studio environment as a signed recording artist for Ebon Records where she also taught voice.

SADIE WOODS

Sadie Woods is an award winning post-disciplinary artist, independent curator, and deejay. Her work focuses primarily on social movements, liberatory practices, cultural memory, and producing collaborations within communities of difference. She also deejays under the moniker Afrodjia, focusing on diasporic music and culture of the Americas and the Global South.

Sadie received her BA from Columbia College and MFA from The School of the Art Institute. She is a 2020 recipient of the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Esteemed Artist Award, the Curatorial & Residency Director at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Co-Founder of The Petty Biennial and of Selenite Arts Advisory, Faculty at the School of the Art Institute, and Resident Deejay at Lumpen Radio 105.5FM (CHI), Vocalo 91.5FM (CHI) and Wave Farm 90.7FM (Acra, NY).

Sadie has participated in national and international artist and curatorial residencies, including: ACRE; Arts + Public Life; Bemis Center for the Arts; Chicago Artists Coalition's HATCH Projects; Comfort Station #pertodela, US/BR; Ecole du Magasin-Centre d’Art Contemporain, FR; High Concept Labs; Hyde Park Art Center; Independent Curators International, NY/SN; Ragdale Foundation; Wave Farm, NY.

episode 6:

Tuesday, February 13, 6-8pm

Back from the studio to the turntables, DJ GENO has DJ’d spot dates & Media runs throughout the states from New York to Los Angeles, and overseas. In 2019, DJ GENO dropped his first single, Yahweh featuring M.A.R.S. and Asa Luke, off his anticipated project Papeon’s Revenge 2 and Shawnna’s Welcome To Chicago. His most recent release, Open Legs, was released in 2021.

dj geno aka PAPEON

DJ GENO started as a club DJ and intern at Universal Music Group through his love of music and pursuit of the music business. Universal Music provided a platform for him to grow his brand and develop business relations. He became the tour DJ and management for Ludacris D.T.P. multi-platinum artist Shawnna with former business partner John Monopoly. He also managed and DJd for Grammy Award winning music artist GLC formerly on Kanye West's G.O.O.D Music label and was A&R his last album “Love Life & Loyalty.”

As a producer, DJ GENO released a series of critically acclaimed mixtapes, Residential Anger, Papeon's Revenge, Residential Anger 2, Y'all Must Forget, featuring artists such as Kanye West, Common, Lupe Fiasco, Shawnna, Freddie Gibbs, BJ Chicago Kid and many more. His skills have taken from being featured in advertising brand campaigns for Beats By Dre to national hip-hop tours for artists such as Kanye West’s “Glow In The Dark” and Ludacris “Chicken & Beer” with Grammy award artist GLC and certified platinum hip-hop artist Shawnna.

With over 20 plus years in the business, DJ Geno continues to DJ and cultivate talent through production and management.

episodes 7 & 8:

thursday,February 15, 6-8pm

tuesday, February 20, 6-8pm

Mike Curb College of Music, Entertainment and Art

• Music Production Technology

Jake Nicely and Scott Velazco are leading one of the most advanced programs for students pursuing careers in not just music, but live performance, theatrical production, television and just about anything in the entertainment industry requiring some sort of audio production.

“The whole premise of the program is to give students valuable skills they can take and go right into a recording studio.” - Jake Nicely

jake nicely and scott velazco

• co-presenters

Jake began his career as a musician and actor in 1977 and rapidly became one of the most sought-after recording studio designers and independent recording engineers in the nation. For more than 20 years, he co-owned and operated recording studios in Nashville, TN, Branson, MO, and Peoria, IL, including the famed Woodland Studios, Seventeen Grand Recording and The Love Shack. Under his ownership, Seventeen Grand emerged as one of the first surround mixing studios in 1998, after being designed and outfitted by Jake from the ground up. 

His studios have played creative home to a legion of stars, among them Alison Krauss, The Dixie Chicks, Dolly Parton, Kenny Chesney, Johnny Cash, George Jones, Bob Seger, Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, Patty Loveless, and Martina McBride.

Scott Velazco earned a Bachelor of Music in 2005 from Belmont University in Nashville and has credits on albums including: Montgomery Gentry, Peter Cetera, Terri Clark, Mandisa, Superchick, Big Daddy
Weave, Steven Curtis Chapman and others. He received his first Grammy Certificate at the 2010 Annual Grammy Awards. The certificate, presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, recognized Velazco’s work as second engineer on Heather Headley’s Grammy-winning “Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album,” Audience of One.  

Despite working with well-known musicians, he also felt it was important to lend his talents to up-and-coming acts: “I spend a lot of time working with independent bands that don’t have major label backing. That is where my love of music really begins.” Prior to moving to Florida, Velazco served as House Engineer at Vibe 56, a studio that professionally records albums that bands and artists can use to their own advantage and advancement.