Daniel Schaefer is a universal artist and marketing specialist working as a music producer, composer, singer/songwriter, poet, writer, music marketing and distribution expert, academic researcher in multiple fields, as well as a sales coordinator for the oil and gas industry. He was educated by the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz in Germany and the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he specializes in African American Studies and Literature as well as Postcolonialism (mentored by Columbia U and Rutgers U scholar Emrah Khayyat) following his undergraduate specialization in International Economics, Capital Markets, and Marketing. The combination of arts and business made him a universal mastermind who on the one hand knows how to work in the artistic fields, whereas he is also aware of its business side concerning marketing and distribution on the other. His most recent artistic/expertise involvement is in the visual arts/editing and web development.