I don't tell random people just ANYTHING about myself, so I figured I'd leave you all with a short artist biography about myself and what I do aside from being a parent of 4 beautiful daughters and owning my own independent record label (Lived Entertainment LLC)

I grew up in Columbus, OH only to relocate to the small town of Bucyrus, OH ; I was raised by my father due to my biological mother leaving when I was about a year old.- I grew up being talked down to and abused by my mother who had at the time been suffering alcoholism. My father simply ignored the events due to not being able to make any progress with helping the matters any. I later decided to vent through music and I started out playing Guitar and singing in several local bands. I was always switching schools and moving around. As a teen I realized that everything that I was doing was setting myself up for failure. I was eventually signed to a local label which turned out to be one of the worst mistakes of my beginner career..signed as the only rock artist to a slow rising petty "Independent label" for hip-hop. I then decided to make hip-hop my career rather than rock. I started doing shows around Ohio starting with Mansfield and Cleveland Areas. I continued to do music in the Cleveland music scene for YEARS until I decided to slow down and start studying Audio/Video Production. in February of 2011 I linked up with Mike Calori aka Smoke for a one song collab called "Till The End Of Time" Feat. Stevie T - It was a hit instantly throughout Ohio. again in March or April of 2011 I believe it was, I contact Smoke for another collab..This time the song was called "I'm Gone" it was about our past projects and what we felt about them.. it was a great song but the message was clear... We had made mistakes. We were in the studio with Smokes brother Andrew Calori III and while recording "I'm Gone" Andrew aka Ac3 was playing with a video camera which later formed our homemade video for the single. That night before ending the session, we had decided to combine the names of "Purple Haze" and "Smoke" to become "The Purple Smoke Project". Since then we have remained a group.

When we say we make GREAT music with meaning.. we mean it. Our music touches on everything from our everyday lives to real life situations to even our own criminal records. Some of the things we say we are not proud of in any way shape or form... But the truth is what this group is about. EVERYONE talks up their own artist persona.. so do we... but with the talk comes the walk. Alot of people wouldn't admit to certain things or tell a story in song format for that matter. with us its all real. We had our single "Calm Down" debut on Chuck D of Public Enemy's Internet Radio Show named "Songs that mean something" as well as several other globally released mixtapes and albums.

The next couple releases from The Purple Smoke Project will be a Bone Thugs N Harmony Tribute Mixtape and our self-titled album to release in the spring or early summer 2012. you can keep posted on these releases at www.smokehiphop.com or www.facebook.com/purplesmokeproject - Our videos and other music can also be viewed at www.youtube.com/purplesmokeproject and www.reverbnation.com/purplesmokeproject

If you have any questions or interests, don't hesitate to contact me.
- Haze of The Purple Smoke Project