BETA Records - Your music matters!

Joseph Wiley was born in Jamaica %u2013 Queens, NY and from the early age of 2 years showed true signs of musical talent. %u201CJoe-Joe%u201D as he is affectionately called, is an astounding keyboardist who is diverse in many forms of music including Gospel, Jazz, and Soul, R & B, Blues and the Sacred Classical genres. Since 1983, Joe-Joe has traveled this vast nation performing in many venues and ministering in many well known churches. His vast acquaintances has allows him to share & appreciate the stage with many notable and well-recognized artists & celebrities. An even with Joe Joe is an incomparable performance and ministry dazzling audiences with a new hip gospel-jazz, swing soul style. Joe-Joe is mostly known for his writing & arrangement of Gospel Music with this same tone & texture bringing a new and vibrant listening audience of all ages. Joe-Joe also shares the experience of Musical Theatre from which he served effective as assistant music director for the Harlem Gospel Theatrical Tour (B) featuring Charles Lyles (and Queen Esther Marrow) from the %u201C96%u201D-%u201C97%u201D season that visited France, Austria, Switzerland & Germany. From this experience he gained great insight for the international music market which he demonstrated later in his career in Japan. Not only is Joe-Joe a gifted musician, he is also blessed to have a smooth baritone / 2nd tenor range that resonates nostalgia and blooms into the new age and is sure to captivate every listening ear. He%u2019s proven this in front of many audiences in Japan singing Gospel & Standards. Joe-Joe has been instructing and developing Japanese singers since 1999 training them to be noble performers and artists alike. He also has been featured in many concert performances in Japan with an all Japanese Gospel Choir, which also performed at the GMWA in 2002 (video available). Joe-Joe has spent a lifetime growing up in church learning discipline and formal musical expression, and bears sensitivity to simply listening and caring for those who desire to be more excellent in their craft. Fortunate for Joe-Joe, the ministries he's been connected with have played major roles in his development. Ministries such as Refuge Church of Christ of the Apostolic Faith in Philadelphia and Christian Tabernacle COGIC also in Philadelphia; ultimately leading him to Ford Memorial Temple (formerly Highway Church of Christ) where he was instrumental in the development of their music ministry leading the original flavor of music which led them to recording a CD (Live In The Temple). Joe-Joe has worked with Grammy & Stellar Award Winning Producer Steven Ford who introduced him to the commercial music industry. During this relationship, Joe-Joe has contributed to the production of many recordings & commercials such as Vicki Winans, Shirley Caesar, Maurette Brown- Clark, DFW Mass Choir, Bishop T.D. Jakes, ABC Networks, and Straight Gate Church just to name a few. Joe-Joe has worked with producer and agent Billy Kahn who initially introduced and discovered pop sensation Brittney Spears to the world as an artist; by helping his develop new acts training them vocally. Joe-Joe is blessed also to have spent time working at the world famous Blue Note Jazz Club of Osaka Japan as guest artist and instructor at their private music school where he was instrumental in the organization and development of a special curriculum to teach Japanese speaking people to sing in English with great dynamic ability. Many of his private students have pursued successful solo careers in Japan. Last but not least Joe-Joe is a caring man who sees the good in everything and desires to sing write or play the song that will get the attention of anyone who needs to hear or feel something beyond the ordinary