Travon Potts
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| Born | Travon Marcel Potts June 3, 1970 |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California, United States |
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| Instrument | Piano |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Website | www |
Travon Marcel Potts (born June 3, 1970) is an American songwriter and record producer. He has a prolific discography. Potts has written for artists such as Monica, Christina Aguilera, Ahmed Chawki, Kenny Lattimore, Anastacia, Eternal, BeBe Winans, Trin-i-tee 5:7, and Public Announcement. He was a staff writer/producer for Nadir RedOne Khayat's RedOne Productions LLC. Potts co-wrote the 2014 theme song "Time of Our Lives" for beIN Sports.
Potts scored and wrote original music for Lifetime Network's Whitney, directed by Angela Bassett. His music has also appeared in BMF (TV series), Swagger (TV series), Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Greenleaf, and The Chi. Additionally, he has composed for several holiday and television movies, including Adventures in Christmasing (VH1), The First Noelle (BET), Out of Bounds (Tubi), Christmas Ringer (BET), BeBe Winans' We Three Kings (Lifetime), Desire: A Temptation Story (Lifetime), Fame: A Temptation Story (Lifetime), Christmas Everyday (Lifetime), and Sugar Mama (Lifetime).
His early TV and film work includes Miracle in Lane 2 (Disney), All About the Benjamins, Soul Plane, and Up TV's A Cross to Bear.
At the age of 12, Potts began playing piano for his church choir, Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, California.
In high school, he began jazz training and started playing for the high school jazz band. At the age of 19, he co-wrote and co-produced his first song "Consider Me Yours" for Virgin recording artist Kipper Jones.
Ministry
After having success under the Silvercrest Entertainment brand, Travon's focus shifted toward music ministry. A young gospel singing duo, ages 13 and 11 at the time, were brought to him as a possible project for development (Charles and Taylor). After completing a demo package and shopping to different record labels, Jackie Patillo, GM of Integrity Music/Sony, signed Charles and Taylor to a record deal. Charles and Taylor went on to receive a Dove Award nomination for their self-titled project produced by Potts. With this new focus on music ministry, Travon and his wife and business partner formed a new brand by the name of Providence Media Group.