Terrace Martin

Terrace Martin is one of the most versatile and freely collaborative artists of his generation. A product of Los Angeles' rich music community, the multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, and vocalist has performed and recorded extensively with the likes of Snoop Dogg, Lalah Hathaway, Herbie Hancock, and Kendrick Lamar, and earned his first Grammy nominations for his contributions to the latter's good kid, m.A.A.d. city and To Pimp a Butterfly. As a leader, Martin has an abundant discography synthesizing R&B, jazz, and hip-hop in communal fashion. It includes full-lengths such as his early street album Locke High (2008), the Grammy-nominated efforts Velvet Portraits (2016) and Drones (2021), and a slew of solo and duo projects such as Fine Tune (2023), I Left My Heart in Ladera (also 2023), and Nintendo Soul (2024). Martin operates Sounds of Crenshaw, which since 2016 has been the outlet for his prolific endeavors that also include his Grammy-nominated group Dinner Party. 2025 saw a pair of full-length releases in the solo Albion Files and Come as You Are, a collaboration with Kenyon Dixon, recently nominated for two Grammys for the 2026 awards.