Cedric is an audio engineer, musician, and producer. Born and raised on Long Island, he went to study music and sound recording at SUNY Fredonia and pursued graduate studies in The New School’s Media Studies program where he expanded his work in sound and added cultural studies to the mix. During college he met Brooklyn-based engineer/producer Paul “Willie Green” Womack. As his assistant engineer from 2014 until 2018 he worked with artists like PremRock and Armand Hammer. You can listen to some of his original music on his self-released album, DREAMLAND.
He joined The Nod, a black culture podcast from Gimlet Media and engineered the show from its start in 2017 up until it’s end in 2020. He also regularly contributed to the show with sound design and original scoring. In 2020, he joined LWC Studios as their Lead Producer, a title he held until 2022. While there, he led and assisted teams in both a technical and editorial capacity, and continued with his work in sound design and music. His work there included clients like Marvel Entertainment, OWN Podcasts, and Macmillan Podcasts, sound designing and composing for Driving The Green Book which won the inaugural Ambie for Best History Podcast in 2021 and a Gold Award from the New York Festivals Radio Awards for Narrative/Documentary Podcast of the same year.
He resigned from the position in July of 2022 to focus back on music, sound design, and engineering. You can hear his original music in Season 3 of KQED’s SOLD OUT, sound design for NBC News’s Letters From Sing Sing and editing for Proximity Media and Marvel’s Wakanda Forever: The Official Black Panther Podcast, which won the 55th NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Podcast - Limited Series/Short Form. In his spare time, he co-hosts his own independent podcast, Gamer Friends, a show about gaming culture and is chronicling his journey to become a multi-instrumentalist musician as Tomorrows Quintet.