Alex Otey  Alex Otey (born 1959) is a singer-songwriter, music producer, pianist, and trumpeter. He has performed with jazz musicians such as Richie Cole and Lew Soloff, and recorded with Grover Washington Jr. on the 1979 "Skylarking" album. He has produced, arranged, and co-written five albums by children's singer-songwriter Miss Amy, and released the albums on his label Ionian Productions. The fifth of these albums, "Fitness Rock & Roll," was nominated in the 54th Grammy Awards, and "Healthy Food For Thought: Good Enough To Eat" was nominated the year before. He also appears on the 54th Grammy winning album, "All About Bullies... Big And Small". He performs frequently with Miss Amy & Her Big Kids Band, and in 2013 released an album entitled "Angels Riding Shotgun" with Americana rock band Off the Map, which features the same line-up of musicians. Otey also performs popular vocal jazz as a soloist and with The Alex Otey Trio. Alex V. Otey was born in 1959 in the United States. His mother is Pat Wood, and his father, Orlando Otey, was a Mexican-American concert pianist and composer. His father was Executive Director of the Wilmington Music School in Wilmington, Delaware during Otey's childhood, which provided him with early formal instruction in music. He was training in classical trumpet and percussion at age 7. As a teenager he began playing piano and singing, appearing in the Wilmington Symphony and competing in regional music competitions. He studied trumpet with Seymor Rosenfeld of the Philadelphia Orchestra until the age of 18. In highschool he began performing "piano man" style arrangements, and has cited singer-songwriters such as Billy Joel and Elton John as influences. According to Otey, his style was also shaped by Harry Connick Jr., Frank Sinatra's ballads, jazz standards, and hits from the Beatles, Van Morrison and Sting. He graduated from Friends' Central School in Philadelphia in 1978. As a teen and young adult he formed a number of small ensembles such as the APO Jazz Trio, which performed around Philadelphia. He performed with jazz musicians such as Richie Cole and Lew Soloff, and recorded with Grover Washington Jr. on the 1979 "Skylarking" album. In 1984 graduated from Drexel University in Philadelphia, with a degree in Physics and Atmospheric Science.