Singer/songwriter Will Hammond Jr.‘s musical career began in elementary school at Cathedral School for Boys and Grace Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys. After Hammond Jr. graduated from Urban High School, he performed with up-and-coming black alternative /hip-hop bands Bass House Funk and Midnight Voices. Hammond’s major accomplishment occurred while he was a student at San Francisco State University. He is credited as the writer of Tara Kemp’s international hit, “Hold You Tight,” (Warner Bros.), which went to #3 on the Billboard Pop and R&B charts and became a certified gold record with 800,000 units sold. After finishing some of his own music under the moniker Soul Folk, Will started writing more and expanding the concepts. The first cd was full of live music with hip-hop/jazz beats and helped shape the direction of his next three albums. Hammond says, “I grew up listening to Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Michael Jackson. Big time Prince fan and of course his disciples which include D’Angelo, Bilal and Cody Chesnutt. I would love to work with those producers and writers who made that magic happen. My old drummer used to play me tapes of The Young Disciples with Carleen Anderson, Omar and Mica Paris. I loved the energy they gave to the music and it was free of the boy band sound we get now. It gave me hope to keep writing the songs I want to write and maybe someone would hear that magic in me"