Grammy nominees in SA to help produce hits
JOHANNESBURG - Grammy-nominated American music producers Roark Bailey, Nelson “Nellz” Kyle, DeJuan Cross, who are behind some of the biggest international acts, are currently in a villa in Cape Town to open doors for SA artists.
Accompanied by Grammy-nominated songwriters Trinidad James, V-Script and A1 Laflare, the group is here to leverage Safety Club’s impeccable experience to help South African artists put their foot through the door to potentially signing with international publishers or labels.
The groups, as a collective, have produced hits for big music giants such as Drake, Lil Wayne, Diddy, Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Nas, Future, Chris Brown, SAINt JHN, Post Malone and many more.
Having jointly amassed multiple Grammy nominations, over four platinums and a dozen gold selling records, Safety Club is facilitating a life-changing songwriting and music producing experience for local artists and creatives such as Youngsta CPT, Shekinah, Paxton Fielies and DSB.
Safety Club’s 10-day music camp is a partnership with Gallo Record Company. The Safety Club concept was first brought to life during the pandemic in 2020 by Bailey who, together with his Atlanta and Los Angeles team conducted hit making music camps to commercially produce competitive records in the international music sphere.
“Because I had done a lot of engineering work in my career and being a producer and a writer, I felt
I needed to actively make space for production, that will be a safe place for like-minded producers and songwriters who can get together and, without judgment, create hit songs,” says Bailey who began playing guitar at the age of 13 and played in bands throughout college.