Biography

Wayne was born and raised in the Cincinnati-Dayton Ohio area but has been a resident of Nashville TN. since 1997. Wayne taught himself to play guitar beginning at age 5.

Wayne is currently a vocal artist and producer for independent record label Country Discovery Records in Nashville, TN. www.countrydiscovery.com

His first CD on Country Discovery Records "Traditions Run Deep" contain an assortment of Classic Country songs such as "Abilene", "Make The World Go Away", "Most Beautiful Girl", "True Love Ways" and others. Many of the original musicians that played on the original hit records performed on this CD. You'll hear the steel guitar of John Hughey, The Country Piano master Hargus "Pig" Robbins, acoustic guitarist Leo Jackson, lead electric by Jimmy Capps and Leon Rhodes, Hoot Hester on the fiddles, Gene Chrisman on drums, and The Nashville String Machine. And yes it was recorded on a Studer Revox A-827 2" 24 track anaolg recorder and mixed to an Alesis Materlink and Mastered using WavLab 6.0.

Wayne is an award winning composer, record producer, and audio engineer. He graduated in 1995 from The Recording Workshop - Chillicothe, Ohio Class of 1996.

Wayne is a freelance record producer and audio recording engineer and has engineered at many Nashville recording studios such as TBN’s Trinity Music City Recording Studio, Ricky Skaggs - Skaggs Place Recording, Mikron Studio Chattanooga, TN. and others.

The songs you hear playing were not only performed by Wayne but he also Produced, arranged, engineered, and mastered them.

Wayne recently produced a new female artist for Country Discovery Records, 15 year old Sarah Whaley of California. Her CD introduces a fresh new sound in both the Country & Pop music world. You can hear Sarah's new CD at www.sarahwhaley.com or right here on DR at

http://www.digitalrodeo.com/SarahWhaley .