Bigg B - Artist
Surviving the struggles of poverty, financial hardships, and mischief, Hip-hop artist Bigg B has become known as a successful hip-hop artist, radio personality, and enthusiast. Born on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Oregon, B is one of only handfuls that have found his niche and dream in the music business. After his first independent and successful album release titled GAMEsta, B has grown to be an advocate for hip-hop and urban culture, expressing his personality and ambitions through music recordings, writings, and radio airwaves on Warm Springs radio station KWSO 91.9FM. Featured on a hit music single nominated for best Pop Song at the National Native American Music Awards, host of the nationwide hip-hop radio show Groove Central Radio, recent additive to Red S Management Division of Sacred Ground Entertainment, and traveling throughout the Western side of the United States, B has found his own creative way to blend his previous experiences with poverty and a struggling community with his personal successes and celebrations. B has become known to the music world as being characteristic, motivational, and energetic in his expressive art and has been projected to be a leading example for Indigenous communities and beyond.
From the Warm Springs Indian Reservation of Oregon to graduating high school in 2002, Jefferson Greene attended Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC) for two years where he co-founded the Chako Kumtux student group and co-coordinated the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) chapter a year later. Greene transferred to Portland State University (PSU) in 2004 when he also started a small home recording studio becoming the head-recording engineer at the Apollo Sound Production Studio in Beaverton, OR a year later. In 2005, Greene started Gold Mind Music Productions and began working part-time jobs in the hospitality industry. In 2006, Greene began working with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs (CTWS) as a Government Affairs intern and in 2007 was elected co-coordinator for the United Indian Students in Higher Education at PSU. In 2008, he was elected Chairman for the Northwest Indian Youth Conference and graduated with a B.S. in Business, Marketing & Advertising. Greene moved on to coordinate 3 Reservation Beautification Projects, started two small businesses, worked in both the CTWS Judicial and Government Affairs Branches, completed the Ford Leadership Institute’s Community Development training and project, coordinated the Central Oregon Recycling Project, graduated from the First Nation Development’ Institute’s LEAD Program, and was appointed to both the Warm Springs Composite Products Board of Directors and the Central Oregon 10-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness and Poverty. In 2010, Greene accepted the Development Director position for the Museum At Warm Springs, while at the same time, the tribal management delegated Greene to become the coordinator of the tribe’s newest community project, The Warm Springs Canoe Family, N'chi Wanapum (Big River People), a project to educate generations on the tribe’s canoe lineage to modern day Columbia Gorge. With continued success, Greene has considered organizing a Native Religions Gathering to take place in Warm Springs, OR, an effort to strengthen ancient ways of worship. In the entertainment realm, one of Greene’s projects was nominated for a “Best Pop Recording of the Year” Award by the Native American Music Awards. On a personal level, Greene has continued to live and express as an artist producing music, painting canvases, and writing short stories and essays. The level of community support, friendship, and trust he has received throughout the years has inspired him to continue to make a growing positive impact in his community and beyond.
Sacred Ground Entertainment™ (SGE) was established in 1999 by J. Greene on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Before that time, a group of 5 (Tha Kounzul), including then members J. and Bigg B., had initially put forth an effort to create a different name and type of record label. But after failed efforts to push the promotions of the label the name and group began to diminish. Sacred Ground Entertainment™ was then born to begin catering to J. Greene's urge to create through writing, recording, drawing, music production, and rapping. It was not long after did artist Bigg B begin to become even more encouraged to take part in what would later become a hit making duo, Bigg B rapping and Mr. Jay producing. Sacred Ground Entertainmet™ has now grown to house not only artists, a music producer, recording studio, other small businesses, and, more recently, grass roots project coordination and development.
Gold Mind Productions was born in the industry of music by recording engineer Mr. Jay. From a small recording studio supplying recording services to serve artists’ growing demand in the Portland, OR music scene to producing and arranging entire songs. Jay was building upon his experience of working in the world class Apollo Sound Production Recording Studio as a recording engineer. After leaving the recording engineering contract with the then dwindling Apollo Sound Productions Studio in Portland, Jay was searching for options. With no where to go, but back home to a small home recording studio, Jay began to utilize his longtime invested in recording equipment’s purpose and began recording Portland artists, Sacred Ground Entertainment’s artists, a Native American pow-wow group, and perfecting the beats to what would later become known as Gold Mind Productions. Then, located in the heart of downtown Portland, OR, Gold Mind Productions not only offered music production, but elegance with a ‘top of the world’ view of the city stretching miles beyond. After working with numerous artists throughout the city of Portland, Gold Mind Productions began to create a demand for its beats as artists expressed desparate need to get noticed and heard. Mr. Jay began finding a new sound that suited any and all artists, yet a product he could stand by with a satisfaction gurantee. From conducting hip-hop beats to rhythm & blues to reggaeton, Jay was suiting to get an overwhelming experience around music he hadn’t contemplated, but began to portray such a grasping determination that artists’ anticipation grew. Gold Mind Productions has begun to make its mark in Hip-hop as the recent release of “Lifestyle Muzik” by Bigg B of Sacred Ground Entertainment is projected to take audiences like a storm. Gold Mind Productions provided all 18 carefully selected songs for the album and will soon reap the benefits of working with Sacred Ground Entertainment. With upcoming releases, growing demand, and equipment purchases, Gold Mind Productions is set for the most explosive year in business. Gold Mind Productions is now an Entity of Sacred Ground Entertainment.