ARTIST - Stino

Founded

9/2006

City

Lakeland, FL

About

BORN IN YORK PENNSYLVANIA ON MARCH 11TH 1992 STINO HAD A ROUGH LIFE WITH HIS MOTHER WORKING 2 JOBS AND GOING TO SCHOOL. HE SPENT MOST OF HIS CHILDHOOD WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER CARMEN ALICEA, WHO IS ONE OF HIS BIGGEST INSPERATIONS. WITH HIS FATHER INCARCERATED FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE HE WAS FORCED TO LEARN HIS STREET SMARTS FROM COUSINS, UNCLES, AND FREINDS. WITH NO POSITIVE MALE ROLE MODEL HE RELIED ON HIS STEP FATHER WHO WAS SOON 2 GET OUT OF JAIL, FOR GUIDANCE. WHEN HE DID FINALLY GET OUT OF JAIL WE GOT NEWS THAT HIS GRANDFATHER WAS DYING SO THEY WENT TO LAKELAND TO VISIT. THEY LOVED THE NEW ENVIROMENT SO THEY WENT BACK TO YORK, PACKED AND LEFT. IT WAS A BIG CHANGE FOR STINO NOT HAVING ANY RELATIVES TO BE WITH. WITH THE SUMMER COMING TO AN END HE WAS SET 2 START SCHOOL AT CRYSTAL LAKE. JUS A REGULAR CHILDHOOD UNTIL HE HIT THE 7TH GRADE! HIM AND HIS TO FREINDS DEVIN JONES AND DWANYE BOSTIC MADE UP THE GROUP DIMEBOYZ! NEITHER ONE OF THEM KNEW IT WOULD GROW TO WERE IT IZ. THE THREE OF THEM WOULD ALWAYS TALK ABOUT MAKING MUSIC BUT NEVER WERE DEDICATED. THEN STINO MET DAKWANE BOOKER YET AGAIN NOT KNOWING HE WOULD MEET A FREIND SO EQUAL AS HIMSELF. YES OF DIFFERENT PARENTS THE 2 OF THEM SHARE A BOND OF BROTHERS. THEN ONE DAY THE TO OF THEM BOUGHT A MIC AND WROTE THERE FIRST SONG EVER TITLED "REP YO CLIQUE" IT WAS AN AVERAGE SONG BUT IT WAS A START FOR THEM. THEN LEVI HICKS CAME ALONG. ALWAYS BATTLING AT SCHOOL AND THE SKATING RINK LEVI WAS VERY DEDICATED. THEN 2 FREINDS OF DAKWANE, CASEY AND FRED WERE ALSO HUNGRY 2 DO MUSIC. CASEY WHO EVENTUALLY WAS KICKED OUT WAS DISLOYAL AND NOT DEDICATED TO MUSIC. FRED ON THE OTHER HAND WAS VERY LOYAL AND HUNGRY. THE 4 OF THEM WOULD TAKE THE CITY BY STORM WITH THERE FIRST ALBUM TITLED "THE TAKEOVER". CONTINUING 2 WORK HARD WITH THE GROUP THE 4 OF THEM HAVE MADE TIME FOR SOLO WORK AND FEATURES. AS OF NOW THE GROUP HAS ADDED 2 GREAT ADDITIONS J.STEW AND 1 $TEVE LET ME SAY THERE ARE NOT 2 BE SLEPT ON. AND LOOK FOWARD 2 THOUSANDS OF MORE SONGS BY THE GROUP BECAUSE THESE SIX ARTISTS ARE HUNGRY AS ANYONE. WE..RE CURRENTLY UNSIGNED AND WAITING ON THE RIGHT OPPORTUNITY SO LOOK 2 THE FUTURE AND U WILL DEFINITLY SEE THIS GROUP EMERGING 2 BE A HOUSEHOLD NAME!.

Band Members

stino - piano

Styles

Dirty South, East Coast Rap, Gangsta Rap, Party Rap, Brown-Eyed Soul

Sounds Like

Stino

Influences

Young Jeezy, Rick Ross (Hip-Hop), Notorious B.I.G., ice berg, Usher

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