Real name: John Thomas Smith

Effective period / Period of releases: 2024

American songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, bass, drums, trumpet) and producer. Started his career in the early 1990s playing guitar for Tony! Toni! Toné!. Since then he has recorded both solo material and worked as a session musician, mainly for R&B, hip hop and gospel artists, including Luther Vandross, Mary J. Blige, Angie Stone, Deborah Cox, Boyz II Men, CeCe Winans, Whitney Houston, Hootie & The Blowfish, Alicia Keys, Toni Braxton, Chaka Khan, and Rahsaan Patterson, among others.