Meet the Team
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Warren McRae
FOUNDER
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Trevor Gale
FOUNDER
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Yasmin de Soiza
GENERAL MANAGER
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Joel Campbell
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
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Warren McRae's impressive musical career began in Jamaica, Queens, New York, where he first showcased his talent as a Bass Guitar player. He quickly rose to become a highly regarded Music Director, Writer, Producer, Executive Producer, Computer and Drum Machine Programmer, Keyboard Programmer, Recording and Mix Engineer, with a long list of accomplishments.
Throughout his career, Warren has worked with some of the biggest names in the music industry, including Tina Turner, Joe Cocker, Nona Hendryx, Little Steven, Kelis, Toni Braxton, Patti LaBell, Chaka Khan, Billy Porter, and many more. He has played a significant role in the success of many of their projects, either as a musician, producer, writer, or mixer.
Warren's talent and expertise extend beyond just music production, as he also wrote, produced and mixed a song for the University Pictures film “The Best Man Holiday”.
As a co-founder of the company, Warren McRae's exceptional talent and expertise will undoubtedly be instrumental in the success of Street Beats.
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Trevor Gale’s musical background began as a musician, a top flight drummer, who then became a music producer, then a music publishing executive (Senior VP at the Performing Rights Organization SESAC) His combined credits of who he played with, produced and signed, include Whitney, Houston, Aretha Franklin, SwizzBeatz, Mariah Carey, Chaka Khan, Run DMC, Run the Jewels, Vanessa Williams, Zach Brown, Charli XCX and many more. He now brings his vast rainbow of experience and knowledge to Street Beats.
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Yasmin is an innovative and inventive professional with extensive experience in music, education and new media. She is currently an on-air radio host for WXPK 107.1 The Peak and previously led Artist & Industry Relations outreach for The Recording Academy, best known as the GRAMMY Awards. Previously, her career spanned creative strategy, talent relations, brand partnerships, and event production for prestigious industry institutions including Carnegie Hall and SESAC. Yasmin can also be seen performing violin at many notable East and West Coast venues and alongside artists such as Pink, AJR, Flogging Molly, and The Pogues and on national television such as The Tonight Show and Good Morning America.
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Joel’s professional career began with successful auditions that led to multiple world tours as a keyboard player with artists such as Des'ree,The Eurythmics, Tina Turner and Janet Jackson.
With his creative production skills being recognized in the industry, Joel left the live music scene and was recruited by a New York production company to write and produce content for commercial artists such as Carole King, Naughty by Nature, Luther Vandross, Joe, Bebe Winans, Brian Mcknight and Omarian. Grammy nominated “Coming Back Home” was co-written by Joel as well as Billboard chart #1 “Let's stay home tonight” by Joe.
Relocating to Montreal, Joel continued work with International artist and entrepreneur Chantal Chamandy production for musical theater “BALADI NIGHT AT THE PYRAMIDS “ with the Cairo Symphony, as well as score the independent movie “Hit By Lightning” starring John Cryer, Stephani Szostak and Will Sasso. He went on to join Tina Turner for her last ever world tour, to which he holds as the high point of his career thus far, as well as “This is it” official Michael Jackson tribute tour.
Joel is currently Director of Music and Arts for one of the most prominent churches in Montreal. He continues to collaborate and release content with local and international artists, whilst studying film scoring.
We are a team of devoted music professionals with over 25 years of experience in the music industry.