Terry Cummings started in the music business in the early 1980’s while at the beginning of an 18 year career in the National Basketball Association. He formed a company with his then partner and cousin, Percy Bady called “Dream Song Productions”. It was formed out of California and existed from 1982 to 1985. At the time, Terry wrote songs for various Gospel artists, where the” Thompson community singers” were among them. And over the years, the publishing company would cover and own the rights to songs that they wrote by artists such as Michael McDonald, Whitney Houston, the Winans, BB and CeCe Winans, Fred Hammond, and many, many more.