DESCRIPTION:
DRE KAY is a duo consisting of Musician/Composer/Producer DeAndre "Dre King" Shaifer and singer/songwriter Kenny "K'Alyn" Allen who originally connected on bandstands in Washington, DC. Surrounded by Hip-Hop, Jazz, Soul, and Funk in DC's renaissance U St. era, the two maintained contact and respect for each others works, during periods where both were growing their musical roots and changing geographic locations.

Dre, originally from Gary, Indiana is a Betty Carter Jazz alumni and has produced music for 3 -time-Grammy Nominated Artist Raheem Devaughn, Kindred the Family Soul, Wale, Conya Doss, Sy Smith, Jon Bibbs, W. Ellington Felton, Bilal Salaam, Wayna and Nicholas Ryan Gant.

Kay (Kenny Allen), from Washington, DC, currently living in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has made 5 solo albums and is a flourishing producer of talented artists in Ethiopia.

Their transcontinental collaboration with the song "Common Thread" features Ethiopian traditional musicians, and Ethiopian Folk Legend Seleshi Demessie - Rising songbird Saba Kahsay - Vahe Tilbian, singer of Armenian decent & fourth generation ethiopian - Ethiopian born & American bred songstress, Munit Mesfin - Jamaican born Sydney Salmon - Poet MC/Radio Host, Timothy Green, originally from Ohio, repatriated to Ethiopia in the Rastafarian Movement - Wndesen Kedir (Kebero-traditional Ethiopian drum) - Endrias Hassen (Masinko-traditional Ethiopian one stringed violin) - Fasika Hailu (Krar-traditional Ethiopian harp) - Abu Gebre (Washint-traditional Ethiopian Flute).

Check out Dre Kay on the song "Common Thread" on the "Celebrate Nations" Album