Phillip Jordan Powell is a Nashville-based music manager and record producer.

Personal life

Powell was born in

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and attended

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where he was awarded a

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. He moved to

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in 2006. On May 22, 2012, he married singer-songwriter and

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member

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, for whom he had served as

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, in a small ceremony in

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. On January 22, 2019, Powell and Presley welcomed their first child together, a daughter named Phoenix Joeleena Jean Powell. Presley also has a son named Jed, born in 2006, from a previous relationship.

Management

Powell began his career as a tour manager while still in college at Texas A&M. While living in Texas, he worked for several artists including

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, Chris Wall, Phil Pritchett and

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. In 2005, he began tour managing RCA recording artist and country star

Miranda Lambert Miranda Leigh Lambert (born November 10, 1983) is an American country singer and guitarist. Born in Longview, Texas, she started out in early 2001 when she released her self-titled debut album independently. In 2003, she finished in third place o ...

. Powell remained with Lambert until his departure in late 2012, upon which time he acted as personal manager for clients such as

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and

. Since that time, he has also served as tour manager for a variety of acts such as Jewel,

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, and

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Record production

While tour managing, Powell also began producing demo sessions in Nashville for then relatively unknown artists like

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and Chelsea Lankes. After meeting Nashville recording artist Will Hoge, Powell produced a session which included the song “Another Song Nobody Will Hear” written by Hoge and Dylan Altman. The song was released by Hoge in January, 2013 as a duet with Texas mainstay

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. It reached #1 on the Texas Regional Radio Report. Powell co-produced Angaleena Presley’s 2014 solo debut album “

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” which ''

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'' gave “five stars" and ''

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'' said in a glowing review "Presley -- and her husband, Jordan Powell, who served as producer -- fill the album with acoustic playing, light percussion and pretty male-female harmonies. There's not much to suggest this music was made in the past 30 years.” It includes guest appearances by

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and

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and featured a number of Nashville “A-list” players such as

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and

Keith Gattis Keith Gattis (born May 26, 1970) is an American country music artist, songwriter, guitarist and producer. Gattis has released two studio albums and charted one single while signed to RCA Nashville on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Trac ...

. The record reached #29 on Billboard's US Top Country Albums chart and #14 on Billboard's US Top Heatseekers Albums. '' ''

References

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