User:Topnotch96/Aaric Straford(Top Notch)

Aaric Diamonte Straford is an American Singer/Songwriter, Actor and Writer. (Born in Chicago Heights, Illinois June 5th 1996)He is currently not recognized for his talent by the world but is on his way to the top. He decided that he wanted to make music when he joined a church choir. Although he is an RnB and a hip hop artist he still enjoys the sound of gospel now and then. His church started a (2008) summer performing arts camp, that he later attended which got him interested in drama. While at the camp Aaric got involved with chorus, dance and drama, giving him the idea that he wanted to be a music artist/ actor in life. There he met a girl named Chaquetta Neal which he became interested in being with her. At the end of the camp all of the members put everything they had learned in a final production. From the script, adlibs, to the curtain call. The name of the production was called: A Tale of Two Families (a play that focuses on a mother and son living in the family gang’s shadow. But must choose the right decision to stop her son from going to jail.) Starring as a background character. At the end of the summer camp Aaric and his girlfriend split up for the school year to meet other people

The next summer (2009) he joined the camp again with the production being entitled: The Journey (explores the life man taken in by his aunt only for her selfish greed to get a check from the state. As he gets older and gets a shot at college his aunt gets more interested in how much money he can get when he goes off to the NBA but must understand a valuable lesson). Aaric stars as a background character in this play to. Aaric starts dating Chaquetta again and at the end of the camp split up. He then realized that he was more of an actor than a singer. So he joined his church’s drama ministry for the winter school season.

The 2010 summer he got involved with the summer performing arts camp again and hooked up with the same girl but only this time since they had just graduated 8th grade they decided they were ready to have a steady relationship. He starred lead role after the church drama season ended he was recognized for his ability to the stage; he starred lead in the play as a senior in high school named Julian Nash a kid with a dream to play basketball for a college. The play was entitled: Rise Up (it touches on the fact of high school bullying and how it has to stop.)Then Aaric was given a chance to sing a duet in the play to discover that it was him that could stop the bullying.