Kevin E. Taylor makes multi-tasking sound easy. He’s a pastor (10 years this past January), a writer and producer for television (18 years in television and almost as many running TM3, TaylorMadeMusicMomentos, his own video production company), and an author (IT’S TIME FOR SOME ACTION and BECAUSE HE LIVES both from 2010).
JADED, his first novel released in 2006, made Top 10 on several Amazon charts and he published UNCLUTTER: CLEANSE YOUR SPIRIT & CLAIM YOUR STUFF, a “help-yourself” book in 2003 after leaving BET to pastor full-time. He is also a lecturer/empowerment speaker, who has spoken at colleges, universities and community groups for the last 20 years.
Raised in the tenements of Washington, DC, but directly across the street from condos housing powerful lawmakers and business owners, the juxtaposition made him a dreamer. From an early age, Kevin E. Taylor knew that better was available for him. “I remember finding a pocket dictionary in the trash. I would learn a new word every day. People thought it was crazy, but I knew I would need those words. I knew that there was a power in those words.”
Those words helped when he transitioned from a safe municipal position as a Budget Analyst to Black Entertainment Television (BET) and soon became a producer, where he interviewed such icons as Tina Turner, Maxwell, Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, Sade, Diana Ross, Lenny Kravitz, Patti Labelle and later her reunited group Labelle. However, his personal favorite Natalie Cole, with whom Taylor developed a personal relationship and later did research for and wrote the discography to her 2000 “Angel On My Shoulder” autobiography, which later became an award-winning NBC made-for-TV movie. During his tenure at BET, Kevin created such shows as ACCESS GRANTED, TESTIMONY, LYRICALLY SPEAKING and NOTARIZED, which gave the network its highest day-ratings in its history in 1999 and where he won a Gold World Medal for International Programming for a special (24 HOURS WITH DRU HILL) and a pair of NAACP Image Award nominations, competing against himself in 2001 for his Aaliyah episode of ACCESS GRANTED and his interviews with Mariah Carey and Mary J. Blige for TESTIMONY. TM3 producer LIFTED and PARALLEL PATHS for BETJ (now Centric under BET Networks) in 2007 through 2009.
He’s currently working on ENVY: THE DARKEST SHADE OF GREEN, the sequel to his best-seller JADED, and CHANGE YOUR MIND: LIFE LESSONS THAT WILL SHIFT THE WAY(S) YOU THINK, both scheduled for release on 11.11.11.
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