Travon Potts

Travon Marcel Potts is the youngest of three sons born to Malcolm and Mary Potts on June 3 1970.

Early life

At the age of 3 Potts started taking piano lessons in a Suzuki program at the University of Southern California. Over the next 14 years he studied classical music. At the age of 12 he began to play piano for his church choir (Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church) in Los Angeles, California.

In high school he began jazz training and started playing for the high school jazz band. While in high school he developed his love for song writing. At the age of 19 he co-wrote and co-produced his first song “Consider Me Yours” for Virgin recording artist Kipper Jones. That same year Potts joined Faithful Central Baptist Church now known as Faithful Central Bible Church.

While at Faithful Central he began playing piano for the youth choir. In 1991 Travon began dating Tandria Thomas and they married in 1994. In 1995, shortly before the birth of their first child (Thomas), Travon took a hiatus from song writing and music production to lead the youth and young adult ministries at Faithful Central. At the end 1996 Travon decided to end his hiatus from song writing and music production by resigning from his position as leader of the youth and young adult ministries.

In 1997 Travon joined forces with prominent song writer and producer Rhett Lawrence (who has produced Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, BeBe and CeCe Winans and so on). Though originally brought in as a keyboardist and programmer, Travon quickly was recognized by Lawrence as a song writer. The musical relationship between Rhett and Travon yielded many collaborations in song writing that led to songs on BeBe Winans (“Thank You”), The Honeys and multi-platinum selling EMI (UK) artist Eternal. Eternal scored an over seas hit from this writing team (“Angel of Mine”). Monica also recorded and released “Angel of Mine” as a single from her "The Boy Is Mine" CD. “Angel of Mine” went on to #1 on the Billboard pop chart for 4 weeks. Travon went on to form his own production company, Silvercrest Entertainment. Under the Silvercrest Entertainment brand Travon went on to write and produce songs for diamond selling artist Christina Aguilera (“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”), Oprah Pop Star Challenge Winner. In December 2000, while expecting their third child (Clarke), Travon, his wife, son and daughter (Madison) moved to Alpharetta, Georgia.

Ministry

After having success under the Silvercrest Entertainment brand, Travon’s focus shifted toward music ministry. A young gospel 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 Integrity Gospel / Sony, shared the same vision of ministry for Charles and Taylor and signed them to a record deal. With this new focus on music ministry, Travon and his wife and business parterner formed the new brand under which artist development and music production would be done. Providence Media Group became the new name and brand of this music ministry, music production and artist development company. Travon under the Providence Media Group brand went on to produce and executive produce Charles & Taylor’s self titled Integrity Gospel / Sony release in July 2005. Providence Media Group continued producing all types of music including “Once again Mike Phillips” for Hidden Beach / Sony jazz recording artist Mike Phillips. Also, under this brand work began on the next project for popular 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. This new branch is called The Net. The Net was formed to train musically talented youth to use their talents for music ministry. The Net currently meets each week under the guidance of Travon and Tandria in a discipleship program call the Process. In addition, Travon along with Tandria also heads Destiny Style Records in Marietta, Georgia. Travon’s songs are currently heard on radio, TV, movies and parties around the world. Travon continues to write and produce songs for new and established music artists.