Victor McClain a California native coming from a musical family was destined to achieve in the music industry.He is a self- taught musician and began playing musical instruments at the age of ten, playing along with the recordings of jazz artist on his clarinet. He taught himself to read music and that made it possible for him to join the orchestra,marching and jazz bands in high school and college. At the age of seventeen he began playing in top Los Angeles bands at Southern California college campuses. He not only plays the saxophone, but also flute, keyboards and sings lead and background vocals. Victor started playing the Los Angeles club sceene which opened up opportunities to record at 20th Century Records, A&M Records and other independant record labels. Victor is a lover of all types of music and his style is a fusion of classical, jazz, rock, and R&B. Being versatile in his music Victor played in many bands from classical to rock and recorded cds with a few of them writing most of the songs, performing most of the tracks,co- producing, mixing and mastering the projects himself. After fifteen or more years of playing with other bands Victor decicded to start his own publishing, studio, and record company. Urge Records, The U.nited R.hythm & G.roove E.xchange and Heaven & Earth Studios offers a variety of music spanding Victor’s experiences and enjoyment of music, all performed, engineered, mixed and mastered by Victor with special guests showing up every now and then. Victor McClain, and The U.nited R.hythm & G.roove E.xchange (Urge Records) is an independent artist and label. The most recent release entitled “Mystic Journey” is due for release in July 2007 and is a mix of Latin, R&B, Smooth Jazz and Jazz. Its a 12 song cd, 6 songs with Latin-Jazz grooves, 3 song are R&B-Smooth Jazz, 2 songs are done in a Jazz-Quartet style and the title song “Mystic Journey” is a Smooth-Jazz tune done in the style that can only can be described as a “John Klemmer” sax style with a repeating echo on the horn.