MR. TURNER or Mr. CRUSH I should say is a heralded and multifaceted Beach Music Festival Trademark Owner, Event Organizer, Musician, single Father, and Army Veteran, yet still so much more. The now 32 year old Business Mogul brought the first ever Permit to Tybee Island’s Georgia’s 50 year old College based Spring Break destination and has almost single handedly turned it into one of the biggest Beach Music Festivals in the World.
At age 12 or 13 he began working with Non Profit Program Project YESS. Assisting Harlem Globetrotters Great “Gator Rivers” teaching youth, mostly not much younger than him, how to play basketball, teach classes and of course spin the basketball on his finger. He started working towards his event planner and business mogul goals in 2006 at the tender age of 13 years old as a DJ for his sister’s best friend’s father, ironically known locally as Uncle Mac.
Age 14 he was the coordinator DJ & head promoter for the Orange Crush event in regards clubs and after parties for the at the time Un-Permitted Beach Bash Weekend. Age 16 he was renting out venues and booking well known artists, musicians and influencers for the HBCU Beach weekend and various events for teens and adults throughout the state of Georgia year round. At that time he was most known for introducing his region to Artist like Migos Rich Homie Quan Rich Kidz before their Fame and all by the time of his 18th birthday.
Not to mention he was simultaneously a basketball star and 2 time Region Champion and 3 time All Region Performer at Calvary, a very prestigious private school in Savannah GA. Needless to say if there were NIL deals in 2006-2010 while Mr. Turner was in High School he would have been a sure in to have one. He also maintained a 3.6 GPA at one of the toughest High School curriculums in the state which awarded him Wendy’s High School Heisman.
Nonetheless a knee injury in High School temporarily derailed his athletic career in 2010 which switched his focus from primarily sports and secondarily event coordination to the ladder. He attended both Clark Atlanta University & Savannah State University as a student athlete and impacted both universities in a major way through anchoring marketing programs on campus and event coordination and artist booking off campus. At age 21 joined the US Army as a Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear warrant officer & retired after a 10 year military career.
