Korff School alum’s music heard on multi-platinum O recording artist albums
rrin Wilson graduated
Wilson formed velocitymadeit
from the Glenn Korff
with Anthony Barfield, his room-
School of Music in 2011
mate at the Manhattan School of
with a DMA in trumpet perfor-
Music, where he attended after
mance. Today, he’s part of the
UNL. In 2015 they caught the
music production duo called “ve-
attention of Amadeus (Antwan
locitymadeit,” whose music can be
Thompson), a multi-platinum mu-
heard on multi-platinum recording
sic producer and music director
artist albums from Chris Brown,
for Trey Songz. In 2016, Amadeus
Young M.A., Lil Wayne, and more.
told them to look at something
“It’s quite shocking to hear music that you sit alone in your room in front of a computer for hours
posted on singer and rapper Chris Brown’s social media pages. “When I looked on Instagram,
trying to get the right ideas, or
here was Chris Brown singing to
you’re in a studio with an artist,
one of the songs that we produced
trying to come up with something
for him,” Wilson said. “And I was like,
that never existed before. And
okay, now it is about to change.”
then to hear it on the radio or to
Brown went on to record seven
hear it being streamed so many
of their songs, three of which
times or see people dancing to it
were on his album “Cuffing
on TikTok,” Wilson said.
Season: 12 Days of Christmas,” which went four times platinum,
Orrin Wilson (left) and Anthony Barfield (right) with artist Young M.A. in 2019.
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two times in the U.S. (RIAA), platinum in Canada and New Zealand,
