Artist Of The Week: 11-28-12 --- 12-5-12

Blind Fury

Born blind on October 10, 1984 in Camden South Carolina he had the world against him from day one.Imagine the doctor telling your Mother that you didn’t have a chance of making it past age one.These are the odds that Fury has been facing his whole life. Growing up he had to deal with the blackness and the blindness.These were hard times for him and his struggling single parent mother.Like so many before him to turned to music, he began at an early age learning to play the keyboard by age four and he began singing at age five. 

As Hip Hop grew so did Blind Fury, at age nine his singing transformed into creating rhymes in his head on a daily basis.His talents began to shine and the people of South Carolina started to get a taste of what was to come.He began to be called gifted because of his immense talents.Fury decided to showcase his talents on stage for the first time at a local club in South Carolina when he was discovered by DJ Mellow(Travis Jiles)Mellow contacted his friends DJ Spice(Harold Griffin)& Darell Jones about his discovery of an amazing talent.The friends formed the management company 3 WiseMen Entertainment with one mission on their minds Blind siding the music world! 

Fury began to perfect his skills in the studio laying down tracks that showcased his singing as well as his MC skills.Then came the MC battles,Fury has slayed emcees up and down the east coast from Atlanta’s Club 112 to NYC’s Fight club.Word quickly started to spread through the streets of NYC that there was an MC who couldn’t see but he could definitely hear the music and the crowd as he destroyed anyone who stepped to him. Blind Fury is best known on the national scene for his 2003 appearance on the live MC battle on MTV & his run as the Freestyle Friday Champ on B.E.T's 106&Park. 

Fury has also received love from many of the industry artists such as Killer Mike,T.I.,KaySlay,D.J. Premier, Ghostface,Bun B,Ludacris,FatMan Scoop,Slim Thugg,Gregg Street,Big Gipp & many more.