Production Starts!

Hello everyone, It is October and that means that production will start for our show.  We will spend the next two months in production meeting with talent, scheduling and shooting footage for our show airing December.  Whats on tap for December?

Solo Productions Online has a variety of talent and topics slated for this season.  To start off with we will showcase on The ATL's Appeal Mr. Luther McDaniel, Novelist and Author of the book "The Third Cross. 

The author of Contamination of Innocence and several other novels, Mr. McDaniel has doctorates from John Marshall Law School, he has earned his B.A. in history from Augusta State University in just three years, and has volunteered for service in the 82nd Airborne Division as an infantry paratrooper right out of high school.   

After practicing law for several years, he retrieved the remnants of a talent he’d never before properly recognized nor appreciated. It gave him a
solace he’d searched for throughout his rather tumultuous life, and an inspiration that he credits only God for. He’s written four novels since that first
work and adamantly considers The Third Cross his destiny piece. After reading it, he’s confident you will agree.

Mr. McDaniel will appear on Solo Productions "The ATL's Appeal with hostess Kuwan Swift set to air in December.  You can find out more about Mr. McDaniel at http://www.luthermcdaniel.com/.

In our Health & Fitness segment we will feature Personal Trainers from Gold's Gym showcased each week showing you different training methods to get and stay in shape.   We will also showcase Healthy Eating for Diabetics focusing on safe diabetics training.   Cardio Kick Boxing with Kim and Tae Bo with Apryl Espinosa-Wade and Melissa Gordon.  Broadcasting on location at Gold's Gym in Conyers on Salem Road.

Gain confidence. Look better. Wake up with more energy. Sleep like a log. Increase sex appeal. Build a strong heart. Increase lung capacity. Earn respect at work. Hold your head high. Get your picture taken. Build self-esteem. Tighten your belt buckle. Lower your blood pressure. Add a few years to your life. Make more eye contact. Increase flexibility. Run a marathon. Be showered with compliments. Lose guilt. Surprise yourself. Burn off junk food. Lighten up. Walk faster. Be admired. Lower cholesterol. Go down a size. Respect your body. Discover muscles you never knew even existed. find out more at http://www.goldsgym.com/ . 

CHANGE YOUR BODY. CHANGE YOUR LIFE. 

Our next segment will Feature Executive Director of the Western Massachusetts Bilingual Veterans Outreach Center SFC Gumersindo Gomez.  The segment is called "The Veterans Advocate", it will deal with veterans issues and offer professional advice from Veteran Service Officers on veteran claims and other issues.

Assigned to the 196^th Light Infantry Brigade, 3^rd Bn 21^st Infantry, Gumersindo served one year in Vietnam.  Leaving Vietnam in 1967, Gumersindo did tours of duty in Germany for six years, Fort Dix New Jersey for nine years and Fort Ord California for one year, ending up in the Republic of Honduras for the remainder of his term.  After 20 years of service, Gumersindo retired and founded the Puerto Rican Veterans Association now know as The Western Massachusetts Bilingual Veterans Outreach Center serving all veterans from all wars and thier dependants.  Get more information at http://www.bilingualvets.org/. 

The Word hosted by Mr. Bruce Goodwin will address the spiritual needs of the community by dissecting the

word of God "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth".

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However, we cannot do this without your help.  Solo Productions Online is seeking “Sponsors” to sponsor our shows on Covington Community Television (CCTV).

We are offering for your sponsorship, advertisement on our shows.  Our expected audience is estimated to be over 20,000 people reached via CCTV Cable Cast, City of Covington
Webcast via cityofcovington.org and the AT&T Webcast Network.  The demographics would be as diverse as our programming.  You can find more detailed information and demographics at http://www.soloproductionsonline.com/SponsorshipLetter.html

In our next blog entry we will continue to update you on whats new and whats going on at Solo Productions Online!  We hope that you will tune in and watch The ATL's Appeal when it airs in December and the Underground when it airs in January.  For more information on us please visit our website at www.soloprductionsonline.com or write us as soloproductions@ymail.com .   Solo Productions Online in no way shape or form will endorse, tolerate or encourage racism; sexism or attacks of hate against anyone or group(s) of another race and/or religion.

Featured Artist of The Month

This month we are pleased to announce 1 Diamond Coaching CEO and Vocalist "Diamond Kimyon Zari" has been selected Featured Artist of The Month! 

KIMYON ZARI (formerly Kim Lewis) a Springfield, Massachusetts native, began her career as a passionate dancer, and by age 10, she entered a dance contest at Robin’s Den in Chicopee, MA.  Growing up as a teenager, Zari’s hometown penned her as the favorite and most powerful vocalist in New England.  She entered and won several 1st place awards from American International College, the Shriner’s Pageant, and other vocal competitions for young talent in Springfield, MA.  Eventually, organizations and businesses pursued Zari to host numerous events and/or to perform as guest of honor. Zari’s voice training was short.  Her vocal teacher felt she already had a golden voice.
While performing at the Quality Inn for the Urban League, she met and teamed up with producer, Lou Hansen (deceased), guitarist, Doug Wimbush, and Skip McDonald to record her first single, Fantasize, on the 3C Sugar Hill label.  Fantasize was recognized in Billboard as a highly recommended single pick.  Zari recorded a few more singles and hired her voice out to other artists while traveling and performing across the country.  She joined the band New Star and began to travel abroad.  Zari performed with New Star for a few years catapulting the band into high demand before deciding to go solo. With an interest in theater, Zari auditioned for her first play and won the part of the girl in yellow in Ntozake Shange’s, For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Wasn’t Enough.  Her first acting experience captivated her heart.  She continued to audition for and secure the lead roles of 7 more productions including Dr. Warner in Love Come Soon, written by 19 year old Jamilah, performed at Smith College; Cinderella, in Another Cinderella Story, produced by Mustard Seed Theater; Reba (the mother) in Before It Hits Home, produced by Jelupa Productions, and The Maid in To Kill a Mockingbird at the Majestic Theater in West Springfield.

Zari’s incredible ability to make her layered talents work to her advantage is brilliant.  She took to radio at 90.7 FM, STCC, where she connected with the community with genuine passion.  With multi-lit telephone lines, the audience asked questions, shared their stories, or expressed love for ‘that voice’.  Destination Radio was a program ahead of its time.  Zari promoted continuous development to the community by creating a culture of opportunity and setting new standards of excellence using people’s experiences as springboards for new achievements. The following quote by Dr. Maya Angelou changed her life:  “I want all of my senses engaged in this life”.  Says Zari, “Life is supposed to be lived with passion, and we have the ability to control a portion of our lives through the thinking that we engage in.  This is the foundation of my work; change our thinking and we will change our lives”.

She soon collaborated with Patriennah Acoste-Pelle of Noelle Elaine Media, Inc., consultant for Black Enterprise and began a business dialogue that took the Pioneer Valley by storm.  Zari created The New Age Black Business Zone, a business etiquette series for Black Business Owners.  A feature to her Destination Radio series of empowerment messages, she interviewed contributing writers, CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies and celebrity guests who shared their rags to riches stories as well as business and financial discussions and other significant and relevant issues America faces every day.  She started her first small business at the suggestion of an In the Spirit article by Susan L. Taylor, formerly of Essence Magazine, and created small seminars and workshops.  This action lead to full three-day conferences, Celebrating Ourselves: Soul, Mind & Body focused on healing, developing, and raising our consciousness.  Community is important to Zari and she truly believes that when you are involved in life, life embraces you with love.

Zari, inundated with calls to speak throughout the Eastern Region presented to four sold out audiences at the American Cancer Society’s Day of Health and Beauty, her self-created seminar, The Body Beautiful.  Fun and informative, she encouraged participants to take action by strengthening their health through commitment rather than compliance.  She used skits, music, statistics, and invited audience participation.  Some of Zari’s clients included:  American Cancer Society, Massachusetts Career Development Institute, Professional Women’s Group, Dress for Success Program, City of Springfield AHEC/Reach Program, Somers Correctional Facility, Advantics Incorporated, Chamber of Commerce Reaching Goals, United States Air Force, Calhoun Street Mentor Program, NAACP, and the Urban League of Springfield, MA, to name a few.

A natural in advertising and marketing, Zari undertook the task of working with Pastor Howard John Wesley of St. John’s Congregational Church in Springfield, MA.  Her job was to write the television commercials, moderate the radio and TV interviews, and assist the pastor on positioning his professional image.  Due to her marketing efforts in conjunction with other professionals, this Easter event at Symphony Hall, there was no room at the INN.  The event completely sold out.

In 1997, Zari attended Maria Dowd’s African American Women on Tour (AAWOT) conferences from state to state.  AAWOT brought Zari a fresh awareness of life that her soul longed for.  Meeting 20 women from around the country helped Zari to think about how she was living and introduced her to diverse opportunities to create a better life.  Shortly thereafter, Zari attended The Female Clergy under the tutelage of Pastor Catherine Joshua-Adonais and was licensed in 2002 (ordained in 2005).  After a 5 year meditation period, Zari changed her name legally crediting the African American Women on Tour Women’s Retreat, for opening her eyes to the importance of your name.

In 2003, she moved to North Carolina.  Says Zari, “For two years, I was dying inside.  At 42 years of age and 165 pounds of solid muscle, my arteries and chest wall, lined with disease and inflammation, was killing me softly.  Her doctor told her she had the worst case of heart disease he’d ever seen in a woman her age.  It was a wake-up call Zari will always remember.

In November of 2003, Zari endured a triple bypass surgery coupled with lupus that took her out of the work force indefinitely.  On a quest for deeper meaning in her life, Zari started a grassroots online newsletter in November 2006.  In July 2007, she enrolled at IPEC School of Coaching and started her coaching practice simultaneously.  While studying, she began connecting with various online communities to see how she could align her values with others.  Zari served as the official online coach for Black Business Space and wrote for both Ezine Articles and Success.com.  You can read about Zari’s life in various magazines such as Today’s Charlotte Woman, ClickPress, The Hartford Inquirer, The Enquirer-Journal, Monroe,NC ArriveNet, Pride Magazine, Unity First, and Healthquest.


Solo Productions Online in no way shape or form will endorse, tolerate or encourage racism; sexism or attacks of hate against anyone or group(s) of another race and/or religion.

Moving Forward: Featured Artist of The Month (September)



Jazz Vocalist T.C. Eckstein

 Solo Productions reintroduced itself to the southern public as the revamped "Solo Productions Online".  We began to create Photo Presentations for friends on Facebook.  In August 2010 we established our website http://www.soloproductionsonline.com/ and selected our first Featured Artist of the month (September) Ms. T.C. Eckstein. 

Sometimes we see and encounter people and never know the gifts they posses until we take time to interact with them. This months Featured Artist is Mrs. TC Eckstein Jazz Vocalist and 2010 Representative for the American Heart Associations Go Red For Women Western Massachusetts Boston Representative/Survivor of Heart Disease and Spokes Person for The American Heart Association and Power to End Stroke Ambassador. Ms. Eckstein trained with the Frank Hatchett School of Performing Arts, The Community Music School and with Wendy Drown, Troy Brown and The New Star Band to name a few. TC was greatly influenced by her Grandfather Jazz Vocalist Billy Eckstein and her Father Robert Eckstein.  TC performs as a soloist in Jazz Vocals and with the Kevin Sharpe Group. She has also performed with New Star I,II, The Style of Hartford Ct and One Way of Springfield, Ma. along with The Floyd Patterson Band, Physical Attraction and The Rick Eckstein Jazz Quintet. She has opened at the Hu ke lau for Najee in 1994 and Nikki Howard in 1995.  TC has been performing for many years and loves what she does. Her future engagements are September 11th with The Kevin Sharp Group @Bushnell park in Hartford, CT., September 16th at the Alden st baptist church in Springfield, Ma. October 3rd a solo Performance with Delores Morin @ The Big E in The Broadway Musical tributes (on FB) and with Bobby Jones benefit again in Boston at The Berkley Performance Ctr. 

T.C. continues to perform and wow the crowed while working as the American Heart Foundations Massachusetts Representative for "Go Red For Women".  Ms. Eckstein performed at the "Big E" in Springfield, Massachusetts.

You can see all of T.C.'s videos on Utube at http://www.youtube.com/user/tcecksteinsings 

Solo Productions Online in no way shape or form will endorse, tolerate or encourage racism; sexism or attacks of hate against anyone or group(s) of another race and/or religion.

Solo Productions Online!: About Solo Productons

Solo Productions Online!: About Solo Productons: "Hello and welcome to our blog!  Kuwan Swift 'The ATL's Appeal  We are pleased that you took time to visit our site and we hope you will..."

Solo Productions Online in no way shape or form will endorse, tolerate or encourage racism; sexism or attacks of hate against anyone or group(s) of another race and/or religion.

About Solo Productons

Hello and welcome to our blog!



Kuwan Swift "The ATL's Appeal



We are pleased that you took time to visit our site and we hope you will enjoy being here.  We are Solo Productions Online!  Solo Productions originated in Springfield Massachusetts in the winter
of 2005.  Producing a Com Cast Public Access Television Show called "Showcase Springfield" Solo Productions earned the City of Springfield Massachusetts "Trust and Respect" producing infomercials for non profit organizations such as The Springfield Girls Club Family Center,
The Springfield Rescue Mission and The Western Mass Bilingual Veterans Outreach Center along with bringing local talent to the communities attention in conjunction with Linda Toomes of the South End Community Center and  Urban Franchyze  "Talent Extreme"Talent Producer Jerreau Pitts.

Solo Productions "Showcase Springfield" ran for two and a half (2.5) years on Springfield's Public Access Television and was rated one of Springfield's top Public Access Television Shows.

Solo Productions began the creation and airing of "Video Slide Show Presentations" on Facebook in 2009.  These presentations can be seen on our website @ www.soloproductionsonline.com under featured videos. Video Slide Show Presentations are photo's brought to life with the integration of music and video and preserved digitally online to share with others.  Visit our site and take a look at a few.

In 2009 Solo Productions relocated to Atlanta, Ga.  We hope to continue to offer excellent programming and services to the Covington and Conyers Communities.  We have secured a programming slot with The City of Covington Television (CCTV) on Channel 20 and have targeted December 2010 to begin programing our show.  We begin with "The ATL's Appeal" which will run 60 Min's and will be segmented into four (4) parts.  Each segment will offer something different of Community interest.  This show will be hosted by Ms. Aprell Kuwan Matrice Swift. 



Official Legacies CEO "Stat Daddie"

Our next show will be slated to being January 2011 is "The Underground" which will showcase talent in and around Atlanta and from other parts of the country.  Raw talent that will amaze you!  The show will be hosted by Official Legacies "Stat Daddie". 

We will broadcast on CCTV Channel 20 (Day & Time TBA), The AT&T Network nationwide, cityofcovington.org Web cast, Facebook, Utube and at http://www.soloproductionsonline.com/. 

We hope that you will watch and become a follower of Solo Productions Online!

Thank you!

Nate Patterson

Producer / Director

Solo Productions Online!