The Official Julio Alejandro Page

I was born on July 5, 1980 in Miami, FL to Cuban father and Cuban-American mother. Living most of my childhood in the city of Hialeah, I was influenced by my father's love of art. Throughout my childhood and early teen years, I started developing my own characters, along with Zoe Bananaz, who I met in 7th grade, a year after moving to Pembroke Pines. A couple years later, I was inspired to create something else...music. Although my uncle was an accomplished musician for most of his life, and I wrote poetry since childhood, it wasn't until I met some friends at a church youth group that I was inspired to put my lyrics to rhythm. At the age of 14, I wrote my first actual song, and a year later, during my freshman year of high school, I would meet my partner in rhyme, Jameleon, who would turn out to be my strongest collaborator for the next few years and beyond. Along with a few other friends, I would go on to write more songs, start making beats, perform on stages throughout the South Florida area, be featured on projects, doing alot of traveling across the country while living in Minnesota and Georgia for a short while and finally settling back in South Florida to restart a spark that was ignited many years ago.Musical influences in life: I would like to thank my grandmother, Luisa for my love of classical music, my sister, Thelma for my love of hip-hop, my mom, Jackie, for letting me go to the gym and introducing me to my love of dance music, my cousins Marc and Eric, for my love of rock, and my Uncle Pat, for my love of rhythm & blues. Everything else I picked up my damn self.