05.09 (Fri)
COSTIE PAYNE Accomplished Songwriter, Composer, & Dynamic R&B Vocalist At the age of six, Costie Payne began sharing his God-given talent in Bethlehem Baptist Church, in his hometown of Magnolia, Arkansas.
In Southern California in 1997, he had the good fortune to meet the extraordinary producer Arthur Brown whose credits include artists such as
Ice Cube, KIDDO and the legendary group Rose Royce. Mr. Brown took Costie under his wing, mentoring him in the areas of musical arrangement and production.
Costie has toured nationally and internationally with two dynamic and renowned R&B and Rock n Roll groups, Rose Royce and The Bus Boys, Snoop Dogg and The Dogg Pound, and has shared the stage with some of the biggest names in the business...(Rick James, Tina Marie, The Time, Ashanti, Avant, Whodini, Keith Sweat, KC & JoJo, Ginuwine, Ja Rule, Nauty By Nature, T.W.D.Y, M.C. Hammer, Keith Washington, Evelyn C. King...and the list goes on)
