By Bobby Tanzilo Senior Editor/Writer Published Feb 22, 2008 at 7:06 AM

Artist management company Urban Vision Worldwide hosts the 2MuchTalent Urban Music Seminar, Saturday, Feb. 23 at Club Nostalgia, 7155 N. 43 St.

The event, which includes a performance by local rapper Tray Gee and a panel discussion -- titled "Breaking Music Locally in Today's Music Industry" and featuring local DJs, promoters, publicists and radio PDs -- kicks off at 4 p.m. Cover is $10.

 As part of the seminar, around a dozen local artists compete to win a demo and promotional package that includes studio time, street promotion, sponsorshop and more.

Doc B will provide music at the event and Reggie "Smooth as Butter" Brown hosts the showcase.

"We are excited to keep bringing the 2MuchTalent Seminar to Milwaukee, and hope to keep the buzz going on the city's music scene," says Antonio Reese, CEO/talent manager for Urban Vision Worldwide. "The array of talent in this city is going unseen, and we provide an avenue for these artists to get noticed. Our showcase empowers, enlightens and enriches the lives of our city's talented singers and rappers."

Bobby Tanzilo Senior Editor/Writer

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.

He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.

With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.

He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.

In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.

He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.