Game 4 P.E.A.C.E alumnus Donald A. Da Costa started in the entertainment business at 15 years old with jazz musicians (that were mentors to him) Clark Terry, Snookie Young, Count Basie and his teacher John Coltrane. He began working as a professional musician at the age of 18 years old while in the U.S. Air Force. He worked A&R for his sister-in-law who was Vice-President of Epic and Columbia Records. He had such an intense passion for music that he decided to continue in the business and went on to become the head of A&R at Big East Records. He started his own company, Crossroad Entertainment Enterprises in 1993 and it lasted until 2003.

Starting in 1996, he created an R&B radio program called Champaign and Satin Sheets, a jazz program called Late Night and a radio program out of Philadelphia called Brother My Brother.

In 2011, he moved from New York City to Las Vegas and reentered the entertainment field where he opened Crossroads Entertainment LV. In 2017, he was asked to run Unisoul Records out of Arizona and began to sign major artists such as Danny Thomas of Confunkshun, jazz artist Max Groove and others. He formed important relationships with Claudette King (B.B. King’s daughter), Revelation (Tupac Shakur’s first cousin), Cliff Perkins (Soul Generation), people he calls his “little brothers”, Pauli Carman of Champaign, the late Gil Sanders (Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes) and his close friend the late Phyllis Hyman as well as some two thousand other artists.

In 2019, he started the televised podcast Inside The Music. The show focuses on promoting the older artists and their music and in mentoring younger artists and those who are thinking about coming into the music business, giving them knowledge on what to expect and for them to build wisdom for their own
business. The show also allowed exposure for the young artists’ new music and projects and any upcoming schedule of appearances. Inside The Music is now preparing for Season Three. He has been putting together music events and concerts for a list of artists for the last 20 years.

His existing companies are Crossroads Entertainment LV, Source 3 Entertainment, S3E (Record Label) and FMD Publishing Music Company. His partners for FMD Publishing Music Company are Rick Ferguson songwriter for Don’t Be Late For Love (The Whispers), Love You All Over (Four Tops) and Terry Morgan (Cutie Pie of One Way), all gold records. We are all songwriters and arrangers for FMD Publishing Music Company.