Kris Auest Aka Tha Gate Keepa, based in Kelowna, BC, Canada, has been making music for about 7 years now.

During these seven (7) years he has been nominated for a holy hip hop award for breakthrough artist of the year/Producer of the year and was chosen to perform at Creation Fest in 2012. In 2013 Kris was able to perform at RUSH Conference 2013 and there were about 5000 in attendance.

He's part of a production team (The Soundamentalists) that includes True Vine Productions member Tonye Bezalel Brown. The Soundamentalists have successfully made many sales.


For almost 3 years, Kris has been producing beats and has had three of them featured in music videos. 


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