Director/Producer/Writer Khoa D. Le

Khoa Dinh Le, born on June 2^nd, 1980, in Thailand is a multi-talented Music and Film Producer, Film Director, Songwriter, Screenplay Writer, Engineer,  Cinematographer,  and Photographer.  Don’t think he is just a jack of all trades and a master of nothing. Khoa puts extreme effort and hard work to everything he wants to learn. He is like a college student that obtained 8 college degrees in his lifetime and masters his craft. He is the founder of the production and media company Kvibe Productions, LLC and managed by Hitclub Entertainment. Khoa is best known for his quick ability to adapt to anything that deals with creativity.

Khoa graduated from Rutgers University in 2003 with a degree in Music and pursued his masters at the most famous school in world “Julliards” in 2008. Before Julliards, he was a computer science major for 3 years at Rutgers University before he decided to change his major to Music. He participated in Jazz bands, choirs, classical ensembles, and picked up on advancing his piano technique as he has been playing since he was 7 years old.

Before getting into the music business, Khoa was a baseball player in high school and at Rutgers University where he learned his discipline in being patient, working hard, working smart, and understanding the true meaning of never giving up. After an arm injury, Khoa retired his dream of being a baseball player and inspired a new dream of success in the entertainment business. In 2005, he formed Kvibe Productions, LLC. He now lives in New Jersey where he grew up since childhood and is known to be the man that strives for excellence.

At the age of 19, he wrote his first 40 page business plan, worked with different producers to understand the dynamics of the entertainment industry. He built his own recording studio and learned sound engineering on his own. He considered himself a music producer as soon as he brought in his first Artist to help him write a song and guided the Artist on creating a record. From there, he fell in love with music and promised himself he would never give up until he has achieved his goals in entertainment. He learned everything on his own so he can prepare himself and avoid any embarrassments.

Khoa received great opportunities where he worked with Major Hit Songwriters, Major Signed Recording Artists, and received composition placements with Warner in Taiwan. Unfortunately, it seemed as if when the door was about to open for Khoa, someone was right behind it to close it in his face.  Things seem to not want to work out the way he expected.

As the result, Khoa got himself involved in the film and photography industry. He started shooting fashion portraits and helped Artists with their image. He shot his first film in September 2009 and completed it in November 2009. Film was accepted into the NY International Independent Film Festival as well as the BCB Productions International Film Festival held in Las Vegas. He believes that although he’s making an ambitious effort into a dying industry, success can still be had by coming in from a different angle. He believes if you love and have a strong passion to your dreams, you will do what it takes to break down the door no matter what obstacles you have to go through.  It was soon after that Khoa signed with a Grammy Nominated Management Team at “Hitclub Entertainment” to manage his career in entertainment. Khoa have been bringing new ideas to the table to pursue success and break down more barriers that he’s been facing in his entertainment career.

Film Credits IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3357359/

I) Music Education:

• Piano at 7 yrs old
• Lessons for 5-6 years
• Played concerts in Grammar School / High School
• BA in Music at Rutgers University
• Took voice lessons, not for me, but to understand how to guide Artists I work with…
• Joined Choir to grasp a better understanding of Harmony
• Took Jazz lessons to understand improvisation and to better myself in Pop Composition
• Took Violin lessons to understand the mind of a string player
• Presently, pursuing my masters at Julliards in New York

II) How I Started in the Business:

• Pursued Baseball in college, but blew my arm out which brought me into the music scene.
• Met high school girlfriend sophomore year of college who introduced me to a Hip-Hop Producer “QcFunk” that she was working with…
• QcFunk took  me under his wing and taught me the art of making beats and putting sounds together (2001)
• Put myself into Debt by buying expensive music equipment to get started. I had to obtain 3 jobs to pay them off.
• Partnered with QcFunk’s company called “Capstone Enterprises”, then reformed the company to “BlackAsia Entertainment”.
• Met R&B/Pop songwriters Kenyon Hurt and S.R. aka Saeed Renaud at a studio in Jersey City. (still working with them)
• Put together a girl group of 4 which then ended being 3. Called them “Mystiza” in (2002)
• Shopped them to every label, but could not get them a record deal. Thus disbanding the group and going our separate ways…(should have known better because there were so many groups)
• I also broke away from QcFunk through due to business differences. We still remain good friends.
• 1 year later, I signed with a company called “Natural Resources”. Did not last more than 6 months as production company failed.
• Placed my first record to an artist named Nicky Lee under Machi Entertainment that’s under Warner.
• Due to business complications and headaches, I decided to take a break for 1 year in 2005-2006

III) My Downtime (burn out):

• Went back to taking Piano Lessons, but in chord voicing to better myself in compositions
• Explored the world, met new friends, networked, Dated a lot, and finding my true-self.
• At the same time, I purposely lost touch with the music people that got to this point of my life. I wanted a new start in this music business and remove the negativity that was instilled in me.
• Learned that success is not achieved overnight, but is achieved through patience, diligence, and persistence.
• Bought books in audio engineering and did my best to understand what they were talking about!

IV) Getting Back Into the Music Game:

• Slowly accepted Artists Request to produce them as I rejected many during my 1 year of downtime
• First artist I worked with since my return was with a talented Filipino girl named Ciello from Jersey City. Produced 3 songs then business complications was introduced once again with the parents. I got away from that quickly…
• Kenyon Hurt introduced me to a few guys from NYC who has a company called “Perceptions Entertainment”.
• I Produced for their Puerto Rican artist named “Irazema” which then put me on to the Puerto Rican Parade in NYC.
• Since the company liked my work so much, I was asked to work on her full album of 12 songs.

V) Journey Through Irazema’s Album(The Success & Headache):

• Through this process, I got to work with Lil’ Eddie and Eritza Laues (Songwriters for EMI with high credits that goes up to Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Kylie Minogue, and so forth). I was able to produce and co-write 8 songs with them.
• Met James Fallon who later became my producing partner (2008)
• We formed Garlandia Entertainment & Media (GEM)
• One of my songs titled “Single Life” from Irazema’s album was picked for her single.
• My First Music Video came about…
• Signed Stefanie (16 year old Artist) to our company “Garlandia Media Ent.”

VI) Artist I’ve Worked With (since 2000):

• Nelson (bad boy)
• Stacie Orico (virgin/captitol)
• Nicky Lee (Warner)
• Vickie Natale
• Irazema (Perceptions Ent.)
• Stefanie (Garlandia Media Ent.)
• Sariah (Iron Mountain Ent.)
• Lil Eddie (EMI)
• Eritza (EMI)
• Emani (Indie)
• S.R.
• Kess
• Terrell
• Mystiza
• Kaliah
• Kwa-n-skillz aka 211
• Michelle Laxina
• Jamie
• Sincere
• Mary Jo
• Jennifer
• Noel
• Geraldine
• Ciello
• PO
• Sol
• Lox
• Lena aka Caprice
• D’janelle
• Phyllis
• Teron (EMI)
• Rio (BMG)
• Denise Williams
• Vonquest