Who is KINGmoney?...
KINGmoney grew up an "80's baby" in Brooklyn, NY. Living with his grandparents, and his uncles and aunts, under one classic Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstone, His parents, fairly young and in their 20's, struggled to make ends meet, but continued to strived to give their children better in life. Kings Father drove a delivery a truck for Coca Cola and his mother did office clerical work. Kings father also was a recording artist and D.J. He often performed at many house party's and school jams. At a young age King was surrounded by creativity and music and quickly developed a creative passion for music and Art. KING grew up listening to various musical influences from Frank Sinatra to Kool Moe Dee.
"When I was a kid all i needed was a box of crayons, some coloring books, and my fathers Sony Walkman and I was good."
After moving out of Brooklyn into an affordable apartment in Hollis, Queens, King attended middle school and helped with his younger sister Ashley while his parents worked. He attended a talented and gifted school and succeeded in music and art. His parents were doing well for themselves and cable television came as a reaping reward for King. MTV and BET became the trend while doing his homework and watching his sister and then emerged an interest and passion for music videos. During High school he continued to excel at music and art, displaying his artwork at many art shows, performing and hosting talent shows and acting in school plays. He also began writing and recording songs and then began focusing on trying to get into the music industry as a singer/songwriter.
"I have all these creative energies inside of me pulling from different directions, It's hard to decide which energy to focus on because I want to do it all."
He continued to work with many music artist's by writing songs and arranging vocals and producing material for his own projects as well. In 2006 KING stumbled upon some video editing software on his computer and began playing around with the tool by using video clips and arranging them to popular songs. King uploaded the videos to youtube.com and received favorable feedback from viewers. His most popular video, Beyonce's smash hit "Upgrade U" obtained 2,000,000 views, and was often mistaken for the actual video due to its remarkable and believable editing. KINGmoney has also received over 4,000,000 hits on youtube and has edited over 50 videos.
Although, Kingmoney hasn't had the opportunity to reach the level of success of those he looks up to such as Hype Williams his protege Little X, Joseph Kahn, and Chris Robinson, with the help of his youtube and myspace he is able to share his visionary eye and creative imagination at the attention of all of those who appreciate his amazing work.
"The online internet is a great venue that offers many opportunities and I would definetly like to fulfill them."
KINGmoney is currently seeking to develop a multi-million dollar business as a professional in video production, direction and editing. He also wishes to establish a production company "KINGmoney Ent." to fufill many other ventures such as artist development and music production and distribution.
If you have any knowledge that can help KINGmoney gain more exposure such as internships/contest/grants or would like to consult with KINGmoney and his management, please contact KINGmoney or James Ling at the email addresses below.
Contact info:
Derek H "KINGmoney"
James Ling