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Mingstar The Major (Biography)

My name is "Daryl Morgan" and I am known by the name of "Mingstar The Major" in the music industry. I am a music artist that writes & perform my own material & I am the owner of record label major moves ltd.

I was born on the 30th of March 1983 at Homerton hospital in Hackney & I grew up in the East London Borough of Waltham Forest where I still live up to date & I developed my love for UK music at the early age of around 12-13 years old.

I went to a school called Norlington School for boys which is located in Leyton East London. In the mid 1990s drum & bass music was everywhere, we called it jungle music. I grew up listening to MCs like Wiley & Riddles who was my favorite, I used to learn & copy there lyrics until I was able to say them word for word. I then started writing my own lyrics/material to jungle music at around 14years of age and use to share them with everyone in the school during lunch time etc.

After leaving school my cousin had a regular prime time show on a well known pirate radio station called de ja vu (92.3fm). He invited me up to the show and I got a good response from the listeners & the radio station owners so I joined his group what was called power supply sound that played and specialized in old school garage music what was popular at the time.

Music then started to change and MCs started to evolve. Grime music was the new craze & MCs lyrics where being written with more style, technique & effort. I liked the new craze as it kind of reminded me of the jungle days. So I said to myself I want to start a grime group, so I started a group with a few old school friends and we called ourselves “Young Guns” we took the name from the film.

Young Guns were a well known group in the grime scene & released 2 videos, 7 singles & 1 Album (Our World) under our independent record label YGC Recordings. “Countdown” was our biggest song released in May 2005 on vinyl & it sold around 2500 units. The video appeared on MTV Base & Channel U & went to number 1 for a few weeks in the Channel U charts. Our second video was “Ride with Y.G.C” released in March 2006 on vinyl & video and sold over 1500 units & also appeared on Channel U. We also featured on lots of Grime DVDs including the number 1 selling & well known “Lord of the mics 2”. We lyrically battled with south side soldiers & we won by public vote. In March 2006 we lost a member of our group called “Slinga” who was murdered in east london in a vicious attack & every member of "Young Guns" thought it was best we went our separate ways. I then went out and bought my own music studio in March 2007 as I have always had a passion for music and would like to be successful for myself, family & "Slinga".

I now have a finished my debut album titled “1 man army” due for release on the 6th of October 2009 & my debut singles, “Get your champagne” & "Your my angel" is taken off my debut Album & is being promoted by DJs all over the UK & Europe & is due for release on digital download on September 4th 2009 by independent record label "Major Moves Ltd".