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Born April 26, 1979, Derrick James Thornton is a native of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and is the only son of Connie Marie Thornton and Albert Ashley, Jr. He is a student at McNeese State University, where he is studying for his Bachelor of Arts degree in advertising design. A self-described “Renaissance Man,” his love for poetry and the spoken word began early on with his love for hip-hop music, graffiti, painting, b-boying, and his study of world history.

As a child growing up in the ’80s, he watched how drugs and violence destroyed his loved ones, as well as his community. Those experiences serve as the motivation for the poetry he writes, then and now. His life, and the struggles of others, are what inspired him to write his first manuscript entitled The Bluez Well Sung, which he describes as a “beautiful song with many different voices.”