Biography

“I love making music, and I’ve loved doing so for as long as I can remember.”

Artist/ Writer/ Producer Ken Q. Turner has served the music community proudly and successfully for nearly forty years, with no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Largely influenced by his parents, Ken began his studies in music at age six, learning classical guitar, violin, trumpet, drums, and was inspired to sing throughout his childhood in Beaumont, Texas. He participated in various bands and ensembles at school and performed in different gospel groups at church, where he was first exposed to the recording arts. While attending Lamar University, Ken studied Percussion and Music Composition on scholarship, performing jazz and musical theater with Don Rollins (Grammy winning songwriter) and Becky Barksdale (Guitarist, Michael Jackson).  

Driven to perform in more contemporary settings, Ken performed with various Rock and R&B bands in Texas and Louisiana until departing to Orlando, Florida in 1986 – joining the R&B/ funk rock dance band, Ravyn and the End. For the next five years, the group toured all over the country, showcased for Atlantic Records, worked for Disney’s Lake Buena Vista property, Pleasure Island, and won two awards for best pop band in Central Florida. Still captivated with studio recording, Ken interned at Florida Sound Studios and Jeff Arthur Productions by day – and on longer tour breaks, Ken worked as an engineer at various recording studios back home in Texas. In 1991, Ken left the band to serve as staff engineer and producer at Production Haus Studios/ Beaumont until 1996, then transitioned to EMF Productions in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where he worked with X-MOB, ESG, Bobby Kimball (Toto), harpist Carol Wood (Mel Bay/ Epona Records), Ed Fruge´(Rocky IV, Transformers animated movie), the Hackberry Ramblers,  Little Chenier -  the feature-length film, and a host of other artists and industry services. Ken now owns QCM Studios in Texas, yet continues to serve his clientele and collaborators in other facilities across the region, most recently recording with Hayden Helms (The Good Samaritans, Lake Charles, LA), Maverick Neal (formerly with Digital Underground), and Odell Robinson (DJ Judge, Oakland, CA). 

Ken’s production oeuvre is fairly extensive – having worked on a myriad of projects over three decades – but Ken also faithfully serves as an educator, choir coordinator at Emmanuel Church/ Beaumont, a continuing student at Berklee College of Music Online, and is still actively performing, recording, and touring with several acts, including: Catalina Wine Mixer, The Big Show, and The Stark Experiment. In 2014, Ken joined the teaching staff of Lamar State College in Port Arthur, Texas,

serving as an Adjunct Professor of Commercial Music. 

“I faithfully tread down this path as an artist and learner for life, gaining continual growth on my journey – advancing toward further enlightenment and evolution.”