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Andy Higgins

Birth Date: April 1, 1990

From: Fayetteville, NC

High School: Terry Sanford c/o 2009

College: UNCP/ CFCC

Biography:

Born Shavonti McCrimmon to single parent Doris McCrimmon in Fayetteville, NC on April 1, 1990. Shavonti grew up in a fairly stable home up until the fourth grade where he was then moved to an unstable home living in a trailer park with no power. This was when he was unknowingly first bit by the music bug. Shavonti's interest in music was sparked when he would sit on his porch and listen to his neighbors blast there music since he was unable to listen to his own due to no power in the house. Later that year Shavonti was moved out to Kansas to live with his sister. Once in Kansas he started listening to more and more music as he stumbled across his sister's husband's albums. Eminem The Slim Shady LP, DMX, Project Pat, and Ludacris these were just a few of the albums that caught his interest. After Shavonti's short stay at his sister he moved back to Fayetteville, NC to start his fifth grade year. Since moving around a lot in the last year Shavonti found himself again in a new environment with no one he really knew. He felt as though he was a loner and a geek more of an outcast than one of the cool kids. So Shavonti put up these defensive mechanisms where he would lash out aggressively when aggravated and picked on. This got him in trouble one day when he lashed out at his teacher, screaming at her. This landed Shavonti a one way ticket to the counselor's office to discuss the problem and how to resolve it. While in the counselor's office they discussed options to help Shavonti deal with his aggressive out burst. He told her that he like to write, so she recommended that he try venting his emotions through poetry. Neither Shavonti nor his counselor knew the impact this poetry would have on his life. After elementary school Shavonti attended Max Abbott middle school where his interest in music grew even more. He began listening to a broader range of music anything from 2 Pac to Eminem to 50 cent and a lot more on multiple genres of music. In the seventh grade Shavonti met his friend Clarence whose brother showed Shavonti how to take all of his poetry and turn them into songs. This opened a whole new door for him. The rest of that year Shavonti wrote anywhere from three hundred to four hundred songs. His eighth grade year he turned his attention more towards the engineering side of music, like making beats and recording. In this year Shavonti started recording using his sister's karaoke machine and a voice recorder. Although things went smoothly through middle school at the end of his eighth grade year his mom had decided to move again this time to Southern Pines, NC. Shavonti however decided to stay with his friends in Fayetteville over the summer. This would have worked out find except that at the beginning of summer the friends Shavonti was supposed to be staying with were taken away by social services because their mother was a prostitute addicted to crack cocaine. Shavonti did not have any option but to stay with her. WHile he lived in her house she stole most of his belongings to sell for money. Once he found out about this he left that house. Finally his mother returned to Fayetteville, NC, moving into the Boonie Doone area on the corner of Andy street and Higgins street, right before his freshman year in high school. Shavonti attended high school at Terry Sanford. His ninth grade year Shavonti's cousin bought him a computer to help him with school, however Shavonti took this and used it as a tool to help him with his music and began recording his songs on it still using the barbie karaoke microphone. Young Jeezy became his favorite rapper because he could related to growing up in the "hood" and the trapping lifestyle. In the summer between his freshman and sophomore year in high school Shavonti fell asleep in his yard on the corner of Andy street and Higgins street, and when he woke up he realized he did not want to be apart of this hood lifestyle anymore and wanted to break this cycle, so the drive to become better and to be successful began. Shavonti's tenth grade year was spent writing and recording, which no one really knew he was doing at the time. Also he began playing football which kept him out of trouble and focused on school. Shavonti's junior and senior in high school were spent much the same way with the exception that he starting recording at his friend Nick Hampsey's home studio. After graduating Terry Sanford in 2009 Shavonti began attending UNC Pembroke and his freshman year he took his college refund check and purchased a microphone for one hundred dollars and with the help of his close friend and business partner Gimmy "G-Millz" Mallah dropped his first unofficial mix tape called "Collision Course" under his stage name Andy Higgins, which he adopted from the corner he lived on in high school. The creation did not stop there his sophomore year in college again with the help of Gimmy Mallah he dropped his second unofficial mix tape called " Blunts on a Textbook" appropriately named for his time spent in his dorm room. The summer between his sophomore and junior year Shavonti and Gimmy Mallah had an idea for yet another third unofficial mix tape where they would take requests for beat Andy's fans wanted him to rap, and they took them and made Andy Higgins' third unofficial mix tape called "Pyro Maniac" named after the hot flow Andy laid down on the requested beats. Shavonti's entire junior year in college and part of his senior year has been spent recording and perfecting his first official mix tape called "Progression" which is due to be released in 2013. The name "Progression" was picked for how far he has come from his first one hundred dollar microphone to the one thousand five hundred dollar set up he is currently working with, but not only does "Progression" signify how far he has come in music but how far he has come in life. Along with "Progression" to be released in 2013 Shavonti "Andy Higgins" McCriommon and Gimmy Millah have planned to release a clothing line, which its name is still unannounced, very soon.

"Light one, light two, burn three" - Andy Higgins

Category:Hip hop musicians