Liz: Tell me a little bit about your life and how you got started. Chill: I grew up in the Morgan Park area of Chicago in a musically inclined family. My father was a great jazz musician named Willie Jones. My mother was a jazz pianist. They were in the business for like 40 years.Taught me a lot about the music and about business. I then went and I did a lot of schooling in music and business, was involved in the Chicago Children’s Choir I was involved in all sorts of singing competitions three times state champion. As far as the business itself, I began actually as a concert promoter. That’s where I really got knee- deep into working with different managers from different places across the world, and different genres of music. I went away to the military in the Marine Corps, and I still did promotions while in the Marine Corps. Different clubs and stuff like that where the base was. When I got out, I ended up moving over to work in
Wisconsin...because I had a few buddies of mine in Wisconsin, one by the name of Rick Robertson. At that time, he managed Bone Thugs N Harmony -did management purely for Bizzy. I took my promotional skills and I started pushing out different acts in the Madison area- bringing them down, promoting different independent artists. I then went to Rick at the time and he asked me how would I feel about working more closely with him on a major level? So of course I said yes. And then I started working with him and I started getting a lot of different connections in the business and started doing a lot of traveling. That’s where I got deeper into saying, OK, I need to start doing management, running an entertainment entity as a whole. I was one of the pioneers back in the day with Gary Knowledge and a few of the other promoters out there in Madison. I veered away because I wanted to expand my horizons. So I started to set up in different markets around the country and overseas. I created Come Clean Entertainment, which actually is an acronym. L: And what does that stand for? C: CreatingOther Methods, EmpoweringChildren, LearningEveryAvenueNecessary. We went on and started working with a lot of people in the community, with the kids and with other entities, just trying to bring more of an industry to Wisconsin, bringing more of an overall sense of real musical family down here. L: Tell me about “Talk it Out” C: I have this segment called Talk about Tuesdays, but now it’s being called “Talk It Out”. We just changed it recently. It is a platform for independent artists as well as major artists, actors, activists, anyone with a message to come on there and push it and promote it through our platform, via the music or whatever it is. It will now be a 30 minute show, 5 days a week. As of October 17, we’ll be on Roku. As of October 6th, we are syndicating through CaribVision TV Network, which is broadcasted through all of the islands in the Caribbean.
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