Stefan the Scientist

Stefan Moss a.k.a The Scientist began his music career in 1994. In 1996, he captured his first Bahamian Music Marlin Award, winning the Outstanding Rap/Hip-Hop Song of the Year category. In 1997, Stefan captured another Marlin Award for the radio hit "The Rapture" as a member of the group "Supernatural". With production credits under his belt for The Rapture, Stefan began producing tracks for local Bahamian artists including John Lennon songwriting contest winner Terneille Burrows (tada) and Bahamian reggae ambassador Landlord. In 2002, he was featured on the Dunamus Soundz "Underground Session" Volume One Compilation with the now Marlin Award Nominated "University of Hard Knocks" and again in 2004 on The Dunamus Ball. In late 2004, he collaborated with Nashville based hip-hop legends "Grits" and cowrote their hit single "Hittin Curves", winning his first Dove Award with the Grits in 2005. His stage name, SCIENTIST, is a pun on his real life scientific endeavors having earned Bachelors degrees in Chemistry and Biology from Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, as well as a Masters degree in Environmental Science from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Stefan's green awareness filters into the music he produces out of Upperdub Studios, his private protools lab in Atlanta, Georgia. Not content with his own achievements, he and his wife Tesia Onae, an accomplished singer and violinist establshed Moss School of Music, a private music school specializing in piano, violin, and voice lessons. "Through the school I am realizing a dream of mine ever since I started this music thing. To give the power of music and creativity to young kids and to see them harness their creative power and produce something positive. That what its all about." Since 2000, Stefan has directed Solomons Minds, a non-profit organization that merges the arts and sciences and uses both as tools for education, cultural development, and awareness of key social and environmental issues. When asked about his love of art and science, he notes, "they all come from the same place, man, the idea is where it all begins, things start as thoughts."