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HANISLIP
Haniel Vilas Boas Cruz (born June 10, 1996), known professionally as Hanislip, is an Brazilian-American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer and visual artist. He is known for his strong stage personality and image as the lead singer of the band of the same name, which he founded in 2020. His stage name was formed by combining the names: Hani from his first name Haniel and slip from the band Slipknot which is the reason he started playing music. Hanislip began a career in music as the producer for Hiphop/rap Group INFamous Boyz, before debuting as the front man of Hanislip (band).

Early life
Haniel Vilas Boas Cruz was born on June 10, 1996 in São Paulo, Brazil. He was mostly raised by his aunt and mother in baruerri, brazil, a place described by Cruz as a "Yin and yang". He is of Portuguese and Native American descent on his father's side, and  Italian and Israeli on his mother's side. Cruz's Uncle introduced him to rock music, showing him a collection of korn, mudvayne records from the 1994 to 2003. He especially found songs like "Death blooms", "Falling away from me", and "here to stay" to appeal to his interests the most, describing them as "good times".

Cruz's had a bumpy childhood, at the age of 3 he had to go live with his maternal uncle in Votuporanga, Brazil due to his mother and father separation, at the age of 4 he moved back to sao paulo, brazil to live with mother, in 2004 Cruz moved to his maternal aunt's house because his mother moved to the united states to try to give them both a better future, In 2008 Cruz moved to his father's house in Votuporanga, Brazil because of issues between his maternal aunt and mother, Cruz describes the time he was living with his father as "The worst time of my life". Cruz says he had to walk 6 miles everyday to his grandmother's house to eat breakfast because his father did not buy anything to eat between 2008 and 2010 Cruz stayed in his father's, paternal grandmother's and aunt that used to be married to his one of his maternal uncles house, In February 2010 Cruz's mother was able to acquired her Green card and as a result went back to Brazil to get him, in 2014 Cruz decided to leave his mom's house and live with his best friend at the time to pursue his music career.

In 2017, after acquiring his American citizenship, Cruz removed his father last name "Monteiro" from his last name. Cruz says " Mother****** never did a thing for me, why should I have his name".

INFamous Boyz (Hanislip X Badsinatra) 2012 - 2016
Cruz is a co-founding member of the American Hip hop/rap group INFamous boyz. INFamous Boyz recorded a demo mixtape in 2012 called "The god father of rap", INFamous boyz released a singles such as " time is now" "a la rumba" "cash is the throne" in 2015 the group decided to drop the name INFamous boyz because it sounded to old and cliche to Hanislip X Badsinatra, Under the new name they released 3 singles "bring it right back" "outta your mind" "one mo shot" in mid 2016 Cruz lost interest and decided to leave the group.

HANISLIP
In mid 2016, Cruz decided to create new music alone, he went on a experimental stage by diving into genres such as Trap-metal, Post grunge, edm, brazilian funk, metal and Trap by 2017 he release songs such as "you fuck me up" "gemini anxiety" which were very well received. In 2018 Cruz decided to leave the music on hold to focus on his personal life, in may 2019 Cruz came back to music but instead of making music he started a beat store online. In 2020 Cruz completely change his direction and is now focusing on making a new emerging sub-genre of metal called Killpop, Despite recording all the new songs by himself Cruz carries HANISLIP as band in 2020, Cruz says "As soon as I find musician who are ready to throw down just like I do then they will be part of the recording process".

In june 10th 2020, HANISLIP released their debut single "BRING IT" on all major platforms, This new version of HANISLIP has great potential and it is very promising!