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Blessed with a soul-filled, touching tenor powerful enough to bring the house down to its knees, Atlanta-born vocalist Traeyon came awful close to throwing away his talents before finally signing to platinum-selling artist Yung Joc’s newly established Swagg Team Ent. label.

“Rappers come a dime a dozen,” Joc explains signing Traeyon. “I wasn’t planning on signing an R&B artist, but it dawned on me that a good vocalist is what the game is missing…Knowing that I am a hard worker, I saw those talents in him when I saw him.”

Joc is set to put his money where his mouth is with Traeyon’s as-yet-untitled debut CD scheduled to be released early 2008. And Traeyon has been setting Atlanta on fire with his debut solo single “V.I.P.” featuring Yung Joc, where Trae croons with heartfelt conviction atop a snap-infused dance track.

“I am new old school R&B. Its new school with the swag, but it’s got the old school feel,” he says.

Born and raised in Atlanta’s College Park suburb, Traeyon has been singing for as long as he can remember. His mother noticed Traeyon’s innate ability carry tunes when he was just five years old, and by his eleventh birthday, young Trae was a member of the nationally accredited Atlanta Boys Choir.

“It was a good experience,” he remembers. “I learned how to count, how to breathe and a lot of different things that I bring to the music now- like the pronunciation of words.”

At age 14, Traeyon ran into a local artist manager who teamed him up with another up-and-coming talent to form the duo called Spunky Funk. The group auditioned for multi-million-dollar music mogul L.A. Reid, who suggested a four member group. After securing two other singers, they changed the name to 4th Avenue and signed their first major label deal with La Face Records.

The group stirred up nominal attention with their debut single “Going Crazy,” but unfortunately, an album from the group never surfaced. And eventually, they were dropped from the label.

That was when young Traeyon was introduced to street life. Doing anything to come up on some money, he was living wild and in the fast lane. “Then something hit me one day,” he says. “I realized what I was doin was wrong when my best friend got locked up. I decided to change my life and went back to music.”

A wise decision- as Traeyon will soon be the hottest male vocalist to come out of the south in a long time. He got next. “I got love for it,” he sums up. “This is what I do. You know how some people play basketball. I sing