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Meet Ken Tran

Ken tran

Kenneth Dean Tran is a Los Angeles–based songwriter, music producer, media entrepreneur, philanthropist, and U.S. Air Force Veteran whose work spans recorded music, live events, and cultural advocacy. As CEO of Final Bow Entertainment, he focuses on amplifying underrepresented voices in music, film, fashion, and art, while also supportin

Kenneth Dean Tran is a Los Angeles–based songwriter, music producer, media entrepreneur, philanthropist, and U.S. Air Force Veteran whose work spans recorded music, live events, and cultural advocacy. As CEO of Final Bow Entertainment, he focuses on amplifying underrepresented voices in music, film, fashion, and art, while also supporting mental-health and humanitarian initiatives. His recent music work includes co-producing the Grammy-submitted album Roses of Humanity and developing original projects that blend spoken word, global influences, and cross-cultural collaboration.

Meet Our Featured Artists

AJ Houston

Erika Renee Land

Erika Renee Land

AJ Houston is a Las Vegas-based spoken word artist, author, motivational speaker, creative-writing facilitator, and military veteran whose career in poetry spans decades. A co-founder of the Fort Worth Poetry Slams, he has coached or participated on numerous national slam teams and is the independent author of ten books. Houston uses poe

AJ Houston is a Las Vegas-based spoken word artist, author, motivational speaker, creative-writing facilitator, and military veteran whose career in poetry spans decades. A co-founder of the Fort Worth Poetry Slams, he has coached or participated on numerous national slam teams and is the independent author of ten books. Houston uses poetry, mentorship, and workshops to inspire audiences and young writers, bringing a lifetime of storytelling and performance to the stage.

Erika Renee Land

Erika Renee Land

Erika Renee Land

Erika Renee Land is a U.S. Army veteran, war poet, author, spoken word performer, and 2021 MacDowell Fellow whose work explores the human consequences of military service and war. She deployed to Mosul, Iraq, with the 47th Combat Support Hospital and later transformed her experiences into poetry, including the collections Residual Affect

Erika Renee Land is a U.S. Army veteran, war poet, author, spoken word performer, and 2021 MacDowell Fellow whose work explores the human consequences of military service and war. She deployed to Mosul, Iraq, with the 47th Combat Support Hospital and later transformed her experiences into poetry, including the collections Residual Affects and Georgia's DAM. Through writing and performance, Land has built a body of work examining war, identity, trauma, race, politics, and the veteran experience.

MAC Woods

Erika Renee Land

Mike Guinn

Cordney “MAC Woods” McClain is an Oklahoma Army National Guard veteran, spoken word recording artist, actor, educator, and inclusion practitioner whose work centers on identity, self-actualization, and underserved communities. His spoken-word music has charted at No. 1 on iTunes, while his work as an actor has contributed to a Heartland

Cordney “MAC Woods” McClain is an Oklahoma Army National Guard veteran, spoken word recording artist, actor, educator, and inclusion practitioner whose work centers on identity, self-actualization, and underserved communities. His spoken-word music has charted at No. 1 on iTunes, while his work as an actor has contributed to a Heartland Emmy Award, alongside honors for community mentorship and public service. An MBA graduate and longtime youth-development professional, Woods combines art, education, and advocacy to encourage self-love, personal growth, and meaningful social change.

Mike Guinn

Erika Renee Land

Mike Guinn

Michael Guinn is an Army Veteran, nationally recognized spoken word artist, storyteller, author, actor, mental-health professional, and community organizer from Texas. With more than 25 years in spoken word and public performance, he has appeared at events across the United States and Canada and is a National Poetry Slam finalist and Int

Michael Guinn is an Army Veteran, nationally recognized spoken word artist, storyteller, author, actor, mental-health professional, and community organizer from Texas. With more than 25 years in spoken word and public performance, he has appeared at events across the United States and Canada and is a National Poetry Slam finalist and International Spoken Word Champion. Guinn is the founder and CEO of Uplift Your Life, a nonprofit that uses performance art, mental-health advocacy, and community programming to create supportive spaces and empower others.

"Out of Camo" Behind the Scenes Team

Samantha N. dang Producer

dissinotra vocalist, lyricist, melody Maker

dissinotra vocalist, lyricist, melody Maker

Samantha N. Dang is a music producer, entertainment executive, and media professional who has produced 14 albums to date and serves as President of Final Bow Entertainment. Her music industry experience also includes artist management, media and public relations, and co-hosting and organizing music events within the community, bringing t

Samantha N. Dang is a music producer, entertainment executive, and media professional who has produced 14 albums to date and serves as President of Final Bow Entertainment. Her music industry experience also includes artist management, media and public relations, and co-hosting and organizing music events within the community, bringing together artists, audiences, and cultural organizations. A former award-winning law professor and lawyer, Samantha combines her creative experiences with a strong legal and business background, bringing a distinctive understanding of both the artistic and professional sides of the entertainment industry.

dissinotra vocalist, lyricist, melody Maker

dissinotra vocalist, lyricist, melody Maker

dissinotra vocalist, lyricist, melody Maker

Julie Spahn, aka Dissinotra, is a Vocal coach, opera vocalist, producer, and song writer, from Germany.

Her expertise in music helped shape the project as the Vocalist, Lyricist, and Melody maker for the album.

deuandra t. brown Composer

dissinotra vocalist, lyricist, melody Maker

deuandra t. brown Composer

Deuandra T. Brown is an award-winning recording artist, songwriter, music producer, filmmaker, actress, director, and entrepreneur based in Scottsdale, Arizona. A SAG-AFTRA member, BMI-affiliated artist, and Recording Academy Voting Member, she has released an extensive catalog of albums and EPs while also writing, producing, and directi

Deuandra T. Brown is an award-winning recording artist, songwriter, music producer, filmmaker, actress, director, and entrepreneur based in Scottsdale, Arizona. A SAG-AFTRA member, BMI-affiliated artist, and Recording Academy Voting Member, she has released an extensive catalog of albums and EPs while also writing, producing, and directing independent film and television projects through her company, Detaron Productions. Brown’s multidisciplinary career spans music, film, fashion, publishing, and digital entertainment, with her work earning recognition from music, film, and media organizations.

Out of Camo Tracks

Out of camo

black under fire

Out of camo

Out of Camo follows the surreal drive home after leaving military service, when a life conditioned by urgency suddenly seems to move painfully slow. Between guilt over walking away, questions about how far a military career might have gone, and the instinct to hold onto the training and bearing that once provided identity, the uniform be

Out of Camo follows the surreal drive home after leaving military service, when a life conditioned by urgency suddenly seems to move painfully slow. Between guilt over walking away, questions about how far a military career might have gone, and the instinct to hold onto the training and bearing that once provided identity, the uniform begins to come off emotionally as well as physically. Beneath it all is the possibility that time is literally slowing—the fragmented thoughts of a veteran leaving base, only to have the journey home violently interrupted.

adrift

black under fire

Out of camo

Adrift captures the disorientation of returning to a world that never stopped moving while the veteran struggles to understand where they belong within it. Without a mission, the familiar certainty of military life gives way to an internal storm of displacement, uncertainty, and invisible chaos. To everyone else life continues as usual;

Adrift captures the disorientation of returning to a world that never stopped moving while the veteran struggles to understand where they belong within it. Without a mission, the familiar certainty of military life gives way to an internal storm of displacement, uncertainty, and invisible chaos. To everyone else life continues as usual; inside the veteran, an entire battle can be taking place without anyone noticing.

black under fire

black under fire

black under fire

Black Under Fire tells the story of a Black veteran who survives one war overseas only to return home and confront another in Tulsa. Through the destruction of Greenwood, military valor collides with an America unwilling to extend the same dignity and protection to the Black soldiers who fought for it. Yet what survives the massacre is m

Black Under Fire tells the story of a Black veteran who survives one war overseas only to return home and confront another in Tulsa. Through the destruction of Greenwood, military valor collides with an America unwilling to extend the same dignity and protection to the Black soldiers who fought for it. Yet what survives the massacre is more powerful than what burned: Greenwood becomes not simply a place, but a people whose resilience refuses to be erased.

adversity

Letter to a moving target

black under fire

Adversity explores the complicated duality of being proud to have served while quietly questioning what that service meant and what was sacrificed for it. The discipline, identity, and sense of purpose created by military life remain even as certainty about the mission begins to fracture. It is the uneasy space between pride and doubt, w

Adversity explores the complicated duality of being proud to have served while quietly questioning what that service meant and what was sacrificed for it. The discipline, identity, and sense of purpose created by military life remain even as certainty about the mission begins to fracture. It is the uneasy space between pride and doubt, where leaving the uniform behind also means confronting the question of who you are without it.

Letter to a moving target

Letter to a moving target

Letter to a moving target

Letter to a Moving Target is a father's plea to his son—a lesson in survival shaped by love, history, and the fear of raising a Black child in a country where he may be seen as a threat before he is seen as a person. The father passes down both pride and painful instructions for staying alive, knowing that military brotherhood and servic

Letter to a Moving Target is a father's plea to his son—a lesson in survival shaped by love, history, and the fear of raising a Black child in a country where he may be seen as a threat before he is seen as a person. The father passes down both pride and painful instructions for staying alive, knowing that military brotherhood and service do not necessarily protect a Black man once he returns home. Beneath every warning is a parent's simplest and most desperate request: whatever the world places in your path, come home alive.

leader

Letter to a moving target

Letter to a moving target

Leader explores the quiet burden of leadership—the higher one climbs, the fewer voices remain beside them, leaving responsibility that often goes unseen and unrecognized. It challenges the idea that leadership comes from rank, authority, or ambition, finding it instead in humility, service, compassion, and the willingness to carry others

Leader explores the quiet burden of leadership—the higher one climbs, the fewer voices remain beside them, leaving responsibility that often goes unseen and unrecognized. It challenges the idea that leadership comes from rank, authority, or ambition, finding it instead in humility, service, compassion, and the willingness to carry others even when the leader must walk alone. In the end, true leadership is measured not by the power one commands, but by the trust earned, the people strengthened, and the humanity left behind.

the veteran

interlude - the cost of war

interlude - the cost of war

The Veteran enters the private battle between the person a veteran once was and the identity military service built in their place. Haunted by intrusive memories and the realization that war took something that may never fully return, the speaker searches inward for a self that exists beyond the soldier while confronting the contradictio

The Veteran enters the private battle between the person a veteran once was and the identity military service built in their place. Haunted by intrusive memories and the realization that war took something that may never fully return, the speaker searches inward for a self that exists beyond the soldier while confronting the contradiction of becoming anti-war after having carried war home within them. It is both confession and warning: a reminder that a war can officially end while continuing indefinitely inside the people sent to fight it.

interlude - the cost of war

interlude - the cost of war

interlude - the cost of war

Interlude (Cost of War) serves as a brief pause in the album’s journey, stripping the story down to the human cost behind military service and conflict. More than a transition, it creates space to reflect on what war asks of individuals, families, and communities before the album moves into its final reflections on identity, memory, and

Interlude (Cost of War) serves as a brief pause in the album’s journey, stripping the story down to the human cost behind military service and conflict. More than a transition, it creates space to reflect on what war asks of individuals, families, and communities before the album moves into its final reflections on identity, memory, and return. This includes real live field recording of the peace demonstration on Washington D.C. on April 20, 2026, by Ken Tran with About Face and Veterans for Peace.

purpose

interlude - the cost of war

remorse code

Purpose explores what happens when a life once organized by orders, uniforms, schedules, and missions suddenly becomes quiet enough for a person to choose their own direction. At first, that freedom can feel like emptiness—even grief—but ordinary moments slowly reveal a different kind of meaning: waking with nowhere to report, making sma

Purpose explores what happens when a life once organized by orders, uniforms, schedules, and missions suddenly becomes quiet enough for a person to choose their own direction. At first, that freedom can feel like emptiness—even grief—but ordinary moments slowly reveal a different kind of meaning: waking with nowhere to report, making small choices for yourself, noticing the world around you, and learning that silence does not mean you have been forgotten. The piece ultimately redefines purpose not as the next mission or victory, but as the freedom to simply live, choose, rest, and discover that sometimes existing is enough.

remorse code

remorse code

remorse code

Remorse Code imagines grief as a language passed through generations of military families—a kind of Morse code rewritten by battlefields, folded flags, survivor's guilt, prayer, and the names of those who never came home. Through the memories of a family shaped by service, the piece explores how war creates a private vocabulary understood

Remorse Code imagines grief as a language passed through generations of military families—a kind of Morse code rewritten by battlefields, folded flags, survivor's guilt, prayer, and the names of those who never came home. Through the memories of a family shaped by service, the piece explores how war creates a private vocabulary understood by veterans and the people who love them, where remembrance can feel both sacred and unbearably heavy. At its heart is a prayer that future generations will inherit something different: not another language of remorse, but the possibility of returning safely, healing fully, and finally knowing peace.

memory

remorse code

memory

Memory explores the weight veterans carry when moments of war refuse to remain safely in the past—memories that can feel like medals of survival one moment and an unbearable burden the next. As the mind tries to pack trauma away into orderly “foot lockers,” war continues to replay what cannot be completely contained, revealing both the f

Memory explores the weight veterans carry when moments of war refuse to remain safely in the past—memories that can feel like medals of survival one moment and an unbearable burden the next. As the mind tries to pack trauma away into orderly “foot lockers,” war continues to replay what cannot be completely contained, revealing both the fragility of memory and the need to place one's own suffering within the larger suffering of others. Ultimately, the piece asks whether telling these stories across generations can transform remembering from something that only wounds into something that preserves understanding, creates empathy, and perhaps makes room for peace.

home

remorse code

memory

Home asks what that word means when a veteran physically returns but part of them remains somewhere else. Once imagined as the destination beyond the battlefield, home becomes elusive when war follows inside memory, identity, and the body—leaving veterans searching for direction, understanding, and a place where they are more than what t

Home asks what that word means when a veteran physically returns but part of them remains somewhere else. Once imagined as the destination beyond the battlefield, home becomes elusive when war follows inside memory, identity, and the body—leaving veterans searching for direction, understanding, and a place where they are more than what they endured. The repeated longing to go home ultimately becomes something larger than geography: a collective desire to finally put down the weight of war, be welcomed without politics or judgment, and experience peace.

Out of Camo Final Track

silence

Silence traces a journey from childhood loss and a fractured sense of family to the unexpected belonging found in military service. As grief, solitude, and the search for something unbreakable lead toward the Air Force, military traditions and the promise to leave no one behind become a new kind of family—teaching that strength can be fo

Silence traces a journey from childhood loss and a fractured sense of family to the unexpected belonging found in military service. As grief, solitude, and the search for something unbreakable lead toward the Air Force, military traditions and the promise to leave no one behind become a new kind of family—teaching that strength can be forged quietly, without needing to announce itself. In the end, silence is transformed from emptiness into resilience, remembrance, and a final salute to what was lost, what was found, and the family we sometimes have to forge for ourselves.