Introducing Victor Tortch of “P4e”

LIFESNAPSHOTZ presents Victor Tortch from "P4E"

Victor Tortch was born in Brooklyn New York May, 1983. His Grandmother would play old school R&B classics by Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Mary Jane Girls and many others that Victor would grow to imitate and love. Singing soon became a great love of his and then started writing songs when he was 13. At the age of 15 he moved to the Little Italy part of the Bronx. There he found his passion for Hip-Hop and soon started to write rhymes as well. His high school, Humanities Prep, was a breeding ground of inspiration where he met his long time friend, Lavon (D. Flood) Lee. “If it wasn’t for Lavon, I don’t think I would ever have thought of making music my career. He was the one who said I was good enough to do it and set off that spark for me.”

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Victor then graduated from Humanities Prep and went to Purchase college for Cultural Anthropology. In doing that he met many people who influenced him such as A.J Marin who opened Victor’s eyes to the world of film. “I started acting and doing film work with my boy A.J and thought to myself, I really want to do this”. Soon after Victor got the bug to capture things with photography as well as his pen. Music still being his primary love took over his life when Scott Mason began teaching him how to produce and record tracks in the studio. Mason then introduced him to his future P4e group member, Sheldon (CaptainHitz) Garnette.

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After years of many music related groups and group projects in 2006 Victor met Fame Cohen who gave him the name “Tortch”, a play on his name and how hot she perceived his music to be. They began a great working relationship that would continue till today. In early 2009 after many years of no communication, CaptainHitz and Victor collaborated on projects with David (Beat Avenger) Livingston that would solidify their working relationship which is now JustHitz Records. CaptainHitz, The Beat Avenger and Tortch form the group “P4e” (Party4ever). P4e as well as photography has been the main creative outlets for Victor and will hopefully propel him through the music and visual art world.

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The following is written by LIFESNAPSHOTZ

“I’ve known Victor Tortch for some time now. We graduated from SUNY Purchase College, which is well-known for  having talented and artistic people. Since I’ve known Victor, he’s been about music. But more specifically, Victor has been about “his” music. Victor dedicated a lot of his time to what he loved, and spent hours in the studio making new music. In that progression, the group “P4e” was born. Hearing their latest single “Stretch”, which has been recently played on Power 105.1fm in New York City, I thought this is what hard work, passion, and faith can lead to. The single “Stretch” has lots of attention and feedback from everyone whose listened. Who’s to say where P4e will end up next? Only P4e can decide that, and from the looks of it, they’re here to stay until they get your attention”.

If you haven’t listened to P4e’s single “Stretch”, take a look at their video for their single  “Stretch” below.