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About Me / FAQ

Hey everyone. So here is just a history of how I got started and stuff like that, and other questions I frequently get asked:

I was born in Gainesville, Florida. As soon as I saw Michael Jackson dance I knew what I had to do. I didn't know I wanted to be a "dancer", I just knew I had to obtain what it was that he had that made his body turn into something magical when he moved to the music. So, of course I started imitating Michael's moves and in kindergarten my mom asked me if I wanted to try an after school dance class. I said sure. As corny as it is, I think it is kinda cool that apparently after the first class the teacher said that I was different from the other kids and that I wasn't just doing her steps, I was "dancing from somewhere inside". Around age 7 we moved to Madison, Alabama and I started taking more formal dance classes. I was never too stoked on the technical side of ballet and jazz, but everyone told me I had to do them to be a good dancer. I sucked it up and trained hard. Tap was always fun. For a while I thought I was definitely gonna be a tap dancer. My interest in movement also lead me to train in Tae Kwon Do for a number of years. After receiving my black belt I took some time off to focus on dance, but never returned to it. Around 4th grade me and my buddies picked up the home video camera and started making short movies. They were usually "Friday the Thirteenth"-esque horrors with as much gratuitous blood as possible. And boy were they bad. This is back when we were using VCR to VCR to edit. We never stopped making videos and as time went on we got better and more sophisticated until now and you can see where they've evolved to on my videos page. Back to middle school. I was a big baseball and basketball player but there came a point where I had to choose between dance rehearsals and sports- and dance won. No, I was never picked on for taking ballet aside from a few harmless jabs. I was a fairly cool kid in school so I never really got the bad end of that stuff. At 15 I packed up and moved to Birmingham, Alabama to fasten down on my training. It was there that I met my mentor and one of the most amazing dancers ever, Kim Wolfe. During the day I would study classical ballet with the Alabama Ballet who provided a tutor so that I could get my high school diploma. In the evenings I would train with Kim at jazz. Then at night I would go downtown to work on my b-boyin with the B.M.W. (Birmingham's most wanted) hip-hop crew. This was the regimen every day and every night. In 2001 I accomplished something I had always wanted but never dreamed would come true when I won Mr. Dance of America. Cheesy, but true. A year after that I was ready to move to LA.

If there is one thing I would attribute to my success above anything else - it would be my mother. She supported and loved me the the fullest extent no matter what and I believe that is the greatest gift you can give a child - with it the possibilities are endless.

LA: I was very fortunate to start working as soon as I got to LA. I would like to think I had over-prepared myself but I'm sure luck was a factor as well. For a number of years I continued to work steadily and had a great time. Then one night the producers of You Got Served spotted me in a club and asked me to come in and audition for them. I got the role and the choreography job the next day. After You Got Served I met my kick ass manager who opened up all the doors for me to get to where I am today.