Shawn Wallace

Shawn Wallace’s musical styles range from Gospel to Jazz to Hip-Hop and beyond. As keyboardist, he has worked with luminary artists such as Common, Ice Cube, Bobby Brown, Dwele, Johnny Gill, Jon B., Bilal, Estelle, Julie Dexter, Rene Neufville, Rakim, Eric Roberson, Maggie Brown, Ugochi and Cherisse Scott. He is currently featured as keyboardist in the underground concert television hit, Clubbin’ TV, hosted by DJ Fink on NBC-HD. A native of Chicago's far Southwest side, Shawn studied Music Theory and Composition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and currently serves as Musical Director for two New Thought congregations: The Emmaus Center and the Namaste Center for Spiritual Living-Chicago.

Shawn has worked for several years as a Teaching Artist throughout Chicago schools teaching Record Production and Theatre Tech to youth from 6th through 12th grades. His independent film score credits include; Severed Ties (Showcase Productions/Lions Gate Films), Puzzle Love (Storybox Productions) and Son of America (Tanskin Productions/N’Spire Entertainment INC). Commercial credits include work for Jet Magazine, Mississippi Rick’s and Arby’s. The versatile artist is currently completing a film documentary, You’ll Be A Man (Testuvaman Filmworks) to be released in 2013 and is also working as Musical Arranger and Musical Director on Charleston Olio by Ifa Bayeza, co-author of Some Sing, Some Cry with Intozake Shange.