Kevin Ross is also an award-winning songwriter, having written songs for artists such as Trey Songs, Nicki Minaj, Jamie Foxx, SWV, Johnny Gill and Tony Braxton. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Born in 1987 and raised in D.C., Ross comes from a musical family. He attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, a performing arts high school in his hometown and won a scholarship from the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied contemporary writing and production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While attending Berklee, Ross appeared on BET’s 106 and Park’s as part of the shows Wild Out Wednesday <\/em>competition. Ross ended up winning the competition and through his win, caught the attention of executive producer and music industry veteran Troy Taylor. After graduating from Berklee College, Ross moved to Atlanta where he began his songwriting career. After successfully landing several songwriting placements with Trey Songz, Jamie Foxx, and other platinum artists, Kevin signed a recording deal with Motown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2014, Kevin released ‘Dialogue In the Grey’ a 4-song EP, his premiere release on Motown. Ross also toured nationally in 2014 as one of the opening acts for Maxwell’s Summer Solstice Tour, and later that year with Ne-Yo’s One Night With Ne-Yo<\/em> tour<\/em>. In 2016, Ross released his first official single from this debut album entitled “Long Song Away.” The year 2017 saw the official release of Kevin’s debut album, The Awakening, which was followed in September of ’17 by his third and final Motown release, the ‘Drive’ EP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since that time Kevin has launched his Art Society Music Group with distribution via Empire, and released his first non-Motown collection, the 7-track ‘Audacity, Vol 1’ EP on January 31, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now Kevin has released his latest, the Drive 2, Album, and first single entitled “Same Team.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" and released his\u00a0first non-Motown collection, the 7-track ‘Audacity, Vol 1’ EP\u00a0on January 31, 2020. Now Kevin has released his latest, the Drive 2, Album, and first single entitled “Same Team.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[423,422],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}