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Hello my name is Shawn Brown and this is my Biography regarding the manner I began my
journey into the music industry.

I was born in New York City in 1972 and grew up in Wagner Housing projects until the age of 8 years old. My mother left New York and relocated to Oakland California where she was
introduced to a singer named Bill Combs, during that time he was doing music tours for his
album Bad Child a soul album that he wrote produced and preformed as a singer. Bill and my mother started a relationship and as result Bill Combs became my stepfather. Bill had band
rehearsals in our living room on 20th and 8th Ave., Oakland California. I sat in on his rehearsals occasionally and studied all the band member's styles of how they played their instruments.
Whenever I came home from school I would pick up their instruments and mimic the musicians until one day Bill came home and heard me playing one of his songs on the guitar. Bill saw that I had the potential to become a musician one day and started to teach me how to play the guitar, after a while I learned how to play all the instruments. Ironically, we lived across the street from Sheila Eastern known as Sheila E. she taught me rhythm on the Pico drums. Every so often I
would go over her house and help her clean up and she would in turn teach me how to play
drums.

A couple of years later, my stepfather Bill, stopped singing as an artist and became a preacher at Green Pastures Church in Richmond California. I was 11 years old and became the drummer for the church and learned how to play the organ. My cousin Eddie Hurd was the organist at the
church and many years later became AKA E Way the bass player for Sheila E. along with my
cousin Levi Sceacer who was Sheila's guitarist. My two cousins taught me how to play keyboards and bass guitar, my cousin Eddie was blessed to have a preproduction home studio. I decided to get involved with rap music. Eddie showed me how to sample sounds on a em u mirage
sampler and taught me how to sequence music tracks on an old SR 16 Alesis sequencer. All the young kids in the church were my step cousins and we were all trained by Bill, Edd!e, Levi and Tony. We all grew from our experiences and moved on to generate own type of projects.