Otto Price

Grammy Award-winning Producer and Eight-time Dove Award winner Otto Price is a unique music influencer, and artist advocate with a storied history. He grew up a military kid but finally settled in Atlanta before moving to Nashville, TN in 1993 when he would become “Sugar Bear” the fan-favorite bass player and musical director of legendary Christian rock band dcTALK.

While his production work would begin on dcTalk’s “Jesus Freak” and “Supernatural” records but would emerge as Price partnered with Jason Halbert, Mark Lee Townsend and Jeff Deyo to produce the Dove Award Winning modern worship founding act SonicFlood. In addition TobyMac would establish Gotee Records and Price would produce groundbreaking records for G.R.I.T.S. and Out Of Eden and many others.

Price’s production would eventually lead him to Warner Bros. as a director of A&R where he would sign and develop artists like BarlowGirl and ​for KING & COUNTRY.

FULL BIO
Originally hailing from Atlanta, GA, Otto Price moved to Nashville in 1993, taking the bassist job for Christian recording artist Kim Boyce. Later that year, he was approached by Toby McKeehan of dcTALK to be musical director and play bass for the breakout rock trio. He toured with the band for seven years and worked on various albums, including Jesus Freak and Supernatural.

In 1997, Price, Jason Halbert and worship leader Jeff Deyo formed and produced the widely successful worship act SonicFlood. After leaving dcTalk in 2001, Price launched out on his own as a full-time record producer, working with artists such as Plumb, Tim Hughes, GRITS, Rebecca St. James, and Out Of Eden. He discovered and developed CCM artists of the year BarlowGirl. That lead to the Chairman of Warner Bros. approaching Otto in 2004, to head up the A&R department for the Warner Music Group, Nashville Label Group.

In recent years, in addition to Music Industry work, Otto has brought his focus more towards Worship & Arts in the local church. His desire is to bring the skills he has gained in the Christian music industry into the local body.

SPEAKING & TEACHING
Otto Price is currently an adjunct professor at Lipscomb University and regularly speaks at church’s and conferences about production and creative development.

https://www.ottoprice.com