Joe Bagale, better known as Otis McDonald (born in 1983 in Rochester, New York), is a musician and music producer from San Francisco. He gained fame by releasing his tracks royalty-free through the Youtube Music Library, allowing people to use them in their videos - more than three and a half million of them, in fact.
McDonald's style relies heavily on blues, funk and hip-hop - as he explained, his pseudonym came from a music piece he composed, inspired by Shuggie Otis and Michael McDonald (of The Doobie Brothers fame).
He has a website
and a Youtube channel where he runs weekly livestreams from his studio.
The name is Otis McDonald. The mission? Good Music.
- Call-Back: One of his copyright-free pieces is titled "That Slapper". A later commercial piece? "Another Slapper".
- Genre Roulette: Even while most of his tracks are inspired by funk and hip-hop, he can whip up guitar-heavy tunes like 3rdEyeBlimp.
- Line-of-Sight Name: His pseudonym comes from two musicians who inspired one of his first tracks.
