Buy Trey "GhostZed" Butler a coffee

WHATTUP WHATTUP!?! I go by Trey; a 36-year-old Music Producer named “GhostZed”. I am kind of eccentric when it comes to my instrumentals. From Pop to Rock Hop, Hip Hop to Contemporary, or RnB to Boom Bap; I strive to be different. I was born in Riverside, CA  Raised in Stockton, CA, and now live in Port Orchard, WA (across the water from Seattle, WA). Since my Father, Stepdad, and my brother were/are in the military, I have moved around A LOT in my lifetime. So, I have been exposed to so many different cultures, traditions, and music.

  Growing up, my father listened to Jazz and Smooth Jazz. My mom listened to RnB, Oldies, Reggae, Gospel, and Pop. She also sang in the church choir, so it was always a party in the car. In elementary school, I played the clarinet, the bass clarinet, and the keyboard. Alongside that was music appreciation class. This exposed me to artists like Yani. As I got older, I dabbled in Rock, Punk, Metal, Emo, Alternative, Hard Rock, etc. It broadened my musical tastes with sounds and harmony.

However, my stepdad was the one who propelled my musical attributes in the right direction. So many different genres, I can’t even count! He, also, played the trumpet. We would sit and just play records, CDs, Tapes, videos, and talk about the music the artists performed as well as HOW they performed. He would break down what is happening in a riff of a guitar, or they run in a song. Of course, Dads think we don’t understand how great the music back then was. Haha! Little did he know, he watered the seed that had slowly been growing since birth.

After I graduated high school in 2004, my musical tastes grew, yet, again from the friends I encountered along the way. I remember watching Adult Swim at night, wishing I could make beats like J Dilla and the other producers that made the commercial blips on Cartoon Network.

I have always been creative; writing, singing, drawing, photography, and making music. They all seem to coincide with one another, I found. All these skills were molded from my teens, thru my 20s, and until I started attending Full Sail University in mid-2019. I graduated with an Audio Arts certificate in Sept. of 2020. For personal reasons (deaths, and family items needing to be sorted out), I had put off starting my musical career to be available for whatever my family needed from me.

Jan of 2021 – This was the start of the most focused, informational, and fun time of my life. I FINALLY am able to live my dreams of pursuing a career in music! Since then, I have been told I have a specific sound, or at least am making some headway in solidifying it. With so many influences in so many different genres, I am not surprised.