ROME, Ga. — Even before coming to Berry College, Trejohn Skinner was making a name for himself as a vocalist —winning a national high school a capella championship with the group InToneNation at New Manchester High School. Paul Neal, Berry’s director of choral activities, took note. He sent a personalized message to Skinner’s high school choir director, saying the senior was a great fit for the music program. That gesture convinced Skinner to commit to Berry.
In his freshman year, Skinner took runner-up honors at the international Varsity Vocals AcaOpen. Competing in a field of 400 students in the 2019 Georgia Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition, he won second place in the category for freshman men in classical singing. The honors kept coming. Judges from Georgia State University and the Atlanta Opera selected Skinner for Berry’s Vocal Honors Recital. He was on track for a degree in music education — until an offstage creative twist inspired the change to a Bachelor of Music with Elective Studies in Business and the desire to produce.
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