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Chuckey Charles was born on December 18, 1970 in Chicago, Illinois. He first became interested in music at a very young age beginning with the guitar at 6 and gradually moving on to the piano at the young age of 9. After graduating from high school and attending a brief stint in college majoring in music theory, Charles started to focus on larger aspirations of the music business and industry becoming a diverse, multi-award nominated film composer, songwriter and top-charting record producer. He has produced, written and worked with Grammy winning artists and producers from Sean Garrett, Usher Raymond and Dallas Austin to writer/producer Jerry Ragavoy (The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, etc…). He has also produced the soulful sounds of Hidden Beach recording artist Kindred the Family, the Pop and R&B sounds of Capitol Records group Vega, Rap artist Loon and “This Is How We Do It” crooner Montell Jordan, to name a few.

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