QUINCY RAMONE
STUDIO MUSICIAN
Quincy Ramone studio musician for Urban Umpires is a rare talent. Upon meeting him and hearing him play Just Jay (CEO of UU) stated “He’s the most talented musician I have ever had the chance to work with.” If you hum a tune he can play it, if you let him hear a beat he can break into a flow so sweet its as if his instrumental belonged there and nowhere else after hearing it just once. In short he is a phenomenon. A multi talented instrumentalist, songwriter, musician producer and performer.
“I play whatever I can get my hands on”
He brings a fresh new sound playing everything from the base, to the keyboard, guitar, drums, and even the spoons. The list is endless. His passion is funk “real funk…that uncut funk”. Even still, he takes pleasure in experimental sounds and his love for music knows no boundaries, creating a sort of musical gumbo that stretches into every possible genre.
“The music I do now just comes out of me. If it’s punk, rock, hiphop, anything…I don’t have internal critics. Whatever it is my grooves are guaranteed to apply boogie to your soul. I do what I feel…and the weird thing is people love it!”
Quincy picked up his first instrument in 4th grade. It was a flute. He wasn’t thrilled with the idea of playing it because it was not his instrument of choice “It was a school thang…we all got to pick an instrument but by my turn the flute was all that was left. I did not aprieciate the sound of it until much later even though my dad played it at home”. You could say that music is in his blood. His father was a jazz musician “…he would’nt call himself that but I do”. In the his early years he actually wanted to play basketball and even made the team but there was no cheating destiny. Living with his mother he took on the role as a man early watching his sister after school, this left little time for sports. So what do you do when stuck in the house? Get a hobby! Just like in 4th grade fate jumped in and handed him an instrument. A guitar this time…and so began the cultivation of what he could not escape, his gift. Ultimately when asked about what motivates him to make music the artist laughs and replies.
“There are so many things that come to mind that I cant put it into words…so I just say God is my inspiration.”
Quincy Ramone has done many things during the course of his career that ultimatly led him onto a path with Urban Umpires. His first band The Dixons opened for a number of other groups over the years such as Expose, New Kids on the Block, Sweet Sensation, and Stevie B. to name a few. It was then that he learned the business side of the industry. “I did the whole 80’s kind of pop thing and saw a different side of the industry way early. I learned it was not a fantasy all kinds of people could break into the industry” He was on Motown for a while happy to be making music but only making enough to live a meager ‘starving artist’ type of lifestyle. Eventually The Dixons broke up. He played in clubs, on the street, pretty much any and everywhere he could.
“I went to bootcamp. I had reached a crossroads in my life and had a decision to make…ya know. Work for UPS or somthin’, go to college, or follow my dream…my destiny…my calling. I chose to follow my dream. I became a real musician after that”
It was after that decision that he formed the group that broke his artistic virginity, Chocolate. It was his first chance to explore himself as an artist. He finally had a firm say in the music, production, lyrics, everything and he realized for the first time what it meant to create fully and without limitations. Chocolate morphed into Chocolate Soup which morphed into CoCo City All Stars. He had begun to find himself and when the time came for the members to part ways he went on a mission of self discovery. Soul searching and finding his personal savior. He got in touch with his most inner demons slayed them and emerged confident and artistically reborn.

Once again Quincy Ramone’s destiny has called him. In the most unlikely of places and the most unlikely of times he and Just Jay (CEO of UU) met. A casual conversation led to a few studio sessions at one artists studio then the others. Both recognizing the talents of the other.

“Just Jays spirit was good. He’s a talented dude everything I heard from him was cool and the music from Urban Umpires is cool too. Im in good company. It’s not business so much as bein’ on a friendship basis ”
So what can we expect next from this soulful spiritual talent? Well only he can say it best…
“I don’t know what I’m gone do but whatever
it’s gone be funky!”
 
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