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, Trin-i-tee 5:7, and

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. He was a staff writer/producer for Nadir

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Khayat's

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. Potts scored and wrote original music for Lifetime Network's '' Whitney'', directed by

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. His music has also appeared in

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, '' Power Book III: Raising Kanan'', '' Greenleaf'', and ''

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''. Additionally, he has composed for several holiday and television movies, including ''Adventures in Christmasing'' (

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), ''The First Noelle'' (

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), ''Out of Bounds'' (

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), ''Christmas Ringer'' (

), ''BeBe Winans' We Three Kings'' ( Lifetime), and ''Sugar Mama'' (

). His early TV and film work includes ''

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'' (

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'', and

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's ''A Cross to Bear''.

Early life

At the age of 12, Potts he began to play piano for his church choir, Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church in

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he began

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training and started playing for the high school jazz band. At the age of 19 he co-wrote and co-produced his first song "Consider Me Yours" for Virgin recording artist Kipper Jones.

Ministry

After having success under the Silvercrest Entertainment brand, Travon's focus shifted toward music ministry. A young

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singing duo, ages 13 and 11 at the time, were brought to him as a possible project for development (Charles and Taylor). After completing a demo package and shopping to different record labels, Jackie Patillo, GM of

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signed Charles and Taylor to a record deal. Charles and Taylor went on to receive a Dove Award nomination for their self-titled project produced by Potts. With this new focus on music ministry, Travon and his wife and business partner formed a new brand by the name of Providence Media Group.

Career

In 1997, Potts worked with songwriter and producer Rhett Lawrence. The musical relationship between Rhett and Potts led to songs for

("Thank You"), The Honeys and

. Eternal scored an overseas hit from this writing team ("

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"). Monica also recorded and released "

" as a single from her ''The Boy Is Mine'' CD. "Angel of Mine" went on to #1 on the

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pop chart for 4 weeks. Potts went on to form his own production company, Silvercrest Entertainment. Under the Silvercrest Entertainment brand, Potts wrote and produced songs for

("Blessed"), Public Announcement ("It's about time" #5 R&B, "Mamacita" #7 Pop), Trin-i-tee 5:7 ("Spiritual Love", "My Body" Top 10 gospel, "Rescue Me") and LaShell Griffin ("Faith", "Get Away"). Potts, under the Providence Media Group brand, was producer and

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to Charles & Taylor's self-titled Integrity Gospel / Sony release in July 2005. Providence Media Group then produced "Once again Mike Phillips" for

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artist Mike Phillips. Also, under this brand work began on the next project for CCM / Gospel artist Javen. Javen is well known for his work and ministry at Without Walls in Tampa Florida under Pastors Paula and Randy White. Travon and Tandria saw the vision to expand youth music ministry in Gospel and CCM within Providence Media Group. They created the group The Net. The Net was formed to train musically talented youth to use their talents for music ministry. Potts and Providence Media Group partnered with Destiny Style Records in Marietta, Georgia to produce Destiny Style Record artists. Potts went on to produce the Gospel top 10 single ("His Will") for Destiny Praise on their self-titled album. Potts left Destiny Style Records to expanded formed Clean Energy Entertainment with Tandria. Under this production company Potts went on to write ("One") with

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finalist

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. In 2011 Potts was brought on as music supervisor and scored the film, ''A Cross To Bear''. In 2013 Potts left Universal Music Publishing. In 2014 Potts joined RedOne's production team. That year he co-wrote the theme for BeIN's network with famed songwriter producer Nadir

Khayat's.

Film / TV

Potts has gone on to score and write original music for Whitney ( Lifetime), directed by

. Potts' music appeared in Greenleaf,

, Our Kind of People, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, and

. Potts was

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for the holiday TV movie Adventures in Christmasing on

, starring

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, who also served as

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. He also scored

's TV Christmas movie The First Noelle. Additionally, Potts composed music for several other television movies, including Out of Bounds (

), Christmas Ringer (

), BeBe Winans' We Three Kings ( Lifetime), and Sugar Mama (

References

External links

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