User:Jiggaracci/Jason Wiley Owens

Jason Wiley Owens (born September 8, 1977) is an American model, rapper, Esperantist.

Early life Jason was born at Moore Memorial Hospital (now Moore Regional Hospital), in Pinehurst, North Carolina. While growing up in a house hold of his mother (Claudette) and father (Wiley), and brother Michael, he was the youngest of all the siblings from his parents. The community of Bloomwood is located on the outskirts of Robbins, North Carolina, and it is where he grew up at. This environment was small and mostly family owned by the Brower family.

Modeling & Acting During the mid-80s, while at the age of 6, Owens was enrolled at Barbizon Modeling school and graduated shortly after, along with siblings Michael and Robin. After graduating from Barbizon, the family hired Marilyn's Modeling Agency to book gigs for the family. Around this time he begin to appear in Newspaper ads, TV commercials, and films. His siblings were also involved with Modeling, however, Jason clearly had more opportunities during this time. His mother would often bring along all of the family so that extras would be made available within short notice. During the first season of AMW (America's Most Wanted), Jason performed a reenactment of a killer during his earlier years. This was the start of a long promising career. However, due to his sucess with modeling, Jason was always leaving school early to travel to Greensboro, NC to attend photo shoots and other opportunities that came about with his time at Marilyn's. Feeling like an outcast and constantly made fun of at school, Jason convinced his mother to allow him to stop modeling and pursue another area of interest. He now wanted to become a rapper.

Music career

After modeling was no longer important to Owens, he then aspired to become a rapper. Heavily influenced by Ice-Cube, 2Pac, Kool Moe Dee, he now envisioned himself as a rapper.

School/College

While in the 8th grade, Owens started selling marijuana to other classmates. After sucessfully moving onto the 9th grade and into high schoo, Owens continued to sell weed and continuing to rap. It was on his 15th birthday, September 8th, 1993, Owens was found guilty and expelled from school for a year. At one point, the group he developed, Da Kiddz were opening up for some well known acts, and also competing on Showtime at the Apollo, winning the 1st night and coming in 2nd on the next night.

Military

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