Precious Paris, born was to Diana Paris and Felix Paris in Southside Jamaica Queens.
Just hearing her name alone, you knew she was destined for stardom. But not before the hardship of being raised in a hood that would swallow you whole and a family environment that would bring her down before up.
Having a mother as an alcoholic, a brother addicted to drugs and a sister who was murdered at age 28 from living life in the streets, left Precious in a life of turmoil.
Precious Paris always wanted to be involved with the entertainment industry and joining the Bernice Johnson Dance School was the beginning of a long road. Prodigy's Grandmother (Mobb Deep) is the founder of the school and was her teacher at the time.
With everything going on at home and the over whelming pressures of life, Precious dropped out of high school at 16 and at age 17 got evicted from her mothers house and started hustling.
While on the grind, Precious Paris met Chris Styles (producer for 50 Cent, Christine Aguilera, & Fabulous) who introduced her to Bruce Wayne (1/2 of the Super Production Team Midi Mafia and producers of 50 Cent, Fantasia, & Jennifer Lopez) and ScrewFace (Ike Louis)-Precious' Manager now, along with four other members to form the group called “US”. This venture exposed Precious to modest success selling 60,000 units independently during her tenure with the group. Her career came to a halt when she gave birth to her son Messiah and encountered some life threatening situations with her baby's father. This resulted into Precious taking a hiatus from the music industry.
Understanding the importance of telling her life story and experiences through song, Precious would soon reunite with B. Wayne, C. Styles and I. Louis to jump start her solo career and strategically craft the journey of her major debut album “Selling My Soul”.
Precious has always looked up to her sister first and foremost. She was the one who gave her the strength to get through. But after C. Styles introduced Precious to 50Cent and LL Cool J in the studio, they collectively labeled her as the “Rap Mary J. Blige”. That inspired her even more to strive for greater dreams in the music industry.
Precious has over come many obstacles in her life that would make the average person crumble to failure and has managed to stay strong through it all and now becomes a force to be reckoned with in this industry.
Precious Paris sees herself as CEO of her own Record Label and would really love to pursue her long dream of acting and screenwriting. This will begin the new era and entry for the new Queen of Hip Hop.
Look out for her journey to the Throne!
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