Courtney Williams was born in Queens, New York. He started playing drums at the age of seven years old for his church. At the age of eleven years old, he played drums on his first album which was a gospel album.

Right after this recording, Courtney Williams was seen as a young child prodigy and just threw word of mouth. Courtney was taken by many groups and put on short tours that would not keep him out of school for too long. The music that Courtney Williams would play as a drummer for his teenage years would cover a vast range of music and he would spend this next part of his life having the music school on hands education of touring, recording and even handling some of the music business with such music groups or artist. Most of these groups are legends in music history such as Miles Davis’s saxophone player “Kenny Garret” (jazz), “Color me badd” (pop), “Marianne Faithfull” (rock), “Projecto Uno” (meringue, salsa, bachata), “Denroy Morgan and Morgans Heritage” (reggae), “Run DMC” (Hip-Hop) and many other groups.

Seeing the world at least six times through playing drums touring with many artist and groups, Courtney decided that he wanted to have his own label which would allow him to have his creative freedom in a music industry that usually dictates what they want you to be like. This new age of independent artist having his own record label and putting out his own music, made Courtney feel great.
Maewi Records was born and now Courtney Williams has written four albums of music[1717]. The first CD on his label Maewi Records is called “Storyteller”, a contemporary commercial pop jazz CD, which has climbed incredible heights in a very short time without any distribution or radio play. “Storyteller” was in the movie “Secret Indictment”, an international movie that was released in November of 2003. In this movie, “Storyteller” had four songs from the album featured in this movie: “Las Chicas Bonita”, “Just Relax”, “Stoyteller” and “Knee-Deep-Strong”. The writer and director of the movie felt so strong about the music that he requested that Courtney Williams write three more songs for the movie. Also in the month (November 2003), Courtney got great news from DMX music. A music program for independent and major record labels, after having “Storyteller” played on DMX in flight entertainment program that hits over fifty five international airlines. “Hustlers Theme” (a song from Storyteller) made number one for smooth jazz and stayed in the top five for a month.

Courtney Williams was in the center of performing with shows in New York and then he started to promote “Storyteller” on the very star studded Prestigious Island of entertainers called Saint-Barthélémy, which is where Courtney performed “Storyteller” live, at BouBous festival held during the summer of 2003 by Yannick Noah (who has sold over 7 million CDs in Europe in 2004-2005) and BouBou. Yannick Noah quoted “Courtney’s show made me feel energetic, incredible show”.

Courtney Williams has become a well rounded musician, song writer, vocalist and composer of what he calls a new sound of music that is easy enough to be heard and understood by all. Courtney quotes “It’s important in my music to uplift people’s spirits and souls, especially when I write the lyrics, because I feel now and always have that the human soul is more powerful positive than if it is negative”.

Now with his new album “Frustrated” and his new name C-Will, Courtney looks forward to doing festivals and shows throughout the spring, summer and fall seasons. He is now currently on a European tour playing drums and singing backgrounds for Marianne Faithfull’s new CD “After The Poison”, but in between will be performing songs from his new CD “Frustrated” on his time off from the tour. He played drums in the soon to be seen worldwide video of Marianne Faithfulls tour show filmed in Hollywood California 2005 and Courtney Williams helps celebrate Marianne Faithfulls 40th Anniversary in the music business by covering one of his favorite Marianne cover songs “Falling From Grace” on his “Frustrated” album CD for 2005.

Album Discography

Storyteller (2002)

Open Doors (2003)

Reality (2004)

Frustrated (2005)

External link

Courtney Williams web site