User:Chaynes1298/sandbox

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 * name         = Don Swayze
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 * caption      = Don Swayze (2015)
 * birth_name   = Christopher LaRon Haynes
 * birth_date   = {{Birth date and age|1994|07|22}}
 * birth_place  = Amsterdam, Holland, Amsterdam
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 * occupation   = American Rapper, SInger
 * nationality  = American
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 * years_active = 2012–present

Christopher LaRon Haynes (born July 22, 1994), better known by his stage name Don Swayze, is an American rapper, singer, producer, and graphic designer from Grovetown, Georgia. Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Haynes was a Military brat that moved from state to state, country to country as his parents were active military. After leaving Amsterdam, Haynes and family then moved out to Alexandria, Virginia. During his stay he picked up basketball, as well did his older sister Ashley. Overshadowed by his sisters’ talent, Haynes found an alternative to cast himself away from the shadow that haunted him. By the age of 14, he went to live with his father Ronnie Haynes for 1 year in Augusta, GA. During this time Haynes was a freshmen in high school attending The Academy of Richmond County. During his last class of the day, Haynes saw one of his friends constructing a beat on a school PC. Once he learned how to use the program Haynes then began manipulating his own sound from home. In the midst of molding his producing skills, Haynes also began writing in dozens of composition notebooks page for page. After his year with his father he moved to Heidelberg, Germany back with his mother as he attended his early middle school years there. While furthering into his sophomore year of high school, Haynes began getting more serious with music. Though writing was a great start, he began recording himself and friends to self-produced tracks, and freestyles to popular records. Though rapping was a fun hobby of Haynes’, at the time he did not see a career in it. Once his mother retired from the military, he moved back to Georgia where he attended, Grovetown High school. Haynes resumed his hobby with newly found friends known as the group (SwaggPack). Haynes wanted to brand himself at his new home, as he began making more and more music trying to scope out all competition. Making mixtape after mixtape, Haynes fell in love with the sport and finally found something that separated him from everyone else. Once graduated from high school he began college at The University of West Georgia. Running into significant problems in school, Haynes soon began to realize his love for the art of music, and directed his full attention there. While attending his second semester at West GA, he released his first serious mixtape titled “ILL-LOGIC”. After his one year term with West GA, Haynes dropped out with intentions of pursuing music. Later that summer he immediately released “ILL-LOGIC 2”, bringing a decent amount of attention to himself. Haynes became extremely serious about his work with back to back to back mixtapes dropping he released one of his biggest mixtapes yet, Flashing Lights. In the midst of releasing Flashing Lights, Haynes ran across (who is now his manager) Phil Kindred, CEO and founder of Diamond in a Rough Ent. Phil took Haynes under his wing and drove him to continue his practice. Haynes taking heave of the opportunity continued his music career, releasing the 2nd coming “Flashing Lights 2” in early 2014. Haynes notoriety rose immediately as musicians, and others took notice of the young 20 year old MC. Haynes relentless effort to be the best lead him to continue making hundreds to thousands of songs and continuation of mixtape creativity. In late 2014 Haynes dropped off Flashing Lights 3. Musicians, and producers took notice, and Haynes began expanding and branding himself as a promising MC, and producer. During the duration of his latest Mixtape, Haynes dropped off his first music video (Dreams Money Can Buy), originally recorded by highly recognized MC “Drake”. Since then, Haynes has signed with Diamond in a Rough Ent., and even scored a distribution deal under the management of Phil Kindred with TopNotch/Universal. As of 2015 the MC has been in and out of recording studios, and released several freestyles in preparation for his highly anticipated mixtape Flashing Lights 4. With a bright future, and his management team backing him, Haynes and he Diamond in a Rough Family look to make their presence known early 2016.