Jackson Free Press

Taiwo and Kehinde Gaynor, 26, are twins from Brooklyn, N.Y., who moved to Jackson when Taiwo, then 18, was working with the Algebra Project, a non-profit organization for math literacy in urban neighborhoods. He came to Jackson for a month to help the group design their own education materials. One month turned into a year. He soon convinced his twin brother, Kehinde, to come down, too.

Neither of the two has ever spent one day in a college classroom. Self-taught, they run their own graphic-design company and music production company, DreamWorld Productions, LLC, from their South Jackson home.

DreamWorld Productions focuses on communications and marketing from a graphic-design standpoint. The twins' communication of music will eventually be involved in Web design and video productions. They have recording capability inside their studio with electronics such as protools, MPC 2000, a mixer, microphones, laptop, external hard-drive, keyboard and an MBox—Taiwo's out-of-town kit. They also do a lot of music mixing.

"Our vision for the company is to be a full-fledged communications company," Taiwo says.
They have worked with several local recording artists. They recently took all of the a capella vocals off Jay-Z's Black Album and recreated all new tracks and music, making the "DreamAlbum."

"I feel that we're growing at a pretty good rate. We believe customer service and quality is far more better than making money," Kehinde says.

Music is their first love, but the twins work with other communications from graphic design, marketing with print images, computer-animated marketing, the whole film industry and TV.

DreamWorld Productions has done graphic design for companies and artists in Louisiana, Mississippi and New York.

"Rather than going back to New York with our business, we want to stay in Jackson because it is growing rapidly. Atlanta used to be nothing, but within 10 years, it became something big," Kehinde explains. "I believe that is going to happen to Jackson. We want our business to be part of the increasing Jackson."

Taiwo adds: "Our music is not black or white music. Our music has the sound that people from all over the world can enjoy."