Story has worked in multiple facets of the music industry, from marketing director at Priority and Def Jam Records to talent buyer at the legendary LA venue Temple Bar. Story released his soul jazz album Seasons in 2013 and his East African-inspired Wondem album in 2015. He also music-directs highly successful Grand Performances Summer concerts including Wattstax Revisited in 2015, ¡Soy Africano! in 2016, Mothership Landing in 2017 and the 2018 opening day Sly and the Family Stone tribute. He recently produced Brownswood Recording artist Daymé Arocena’s Cubafonia album and is gearing up to release his new East African-inspired record Buna on Soundway Records in 2018. As a former Community Outreach Liaison at The Ford Theatre (2015-2016), Story currently consults as Artivist in Residence / Event Producer at Community Coalition of South Los Angeles, a community organizing and advocacy non-profit, and he is a 2017-2019 cohort with the APAP USC Leadership Fellows Program. Also, currently a first-year M.A. student in UCLA’s in African Studies department, Story is targeting his Ph.D in Ethnomusicology / World Art and Cultures in order to lecture at the university level and release derivative recordings that support his academic research and passion.