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John Anthony Gillis was born in Detroit, Michigan on July

9, 1975 to Gorman McKenzie Gillis and Terresa (no last name

given). He was the tenth child in his family and the

seventh male child. He considers it to be a lucky number;

the seventh male child is always different.

As a child he enjoyed music. At age eleven he took up

playing drum. Later he wanted to play guitar and piano

along with his drumming so he taught himself how to play

them. He had liked Led Zeppelin and Cream and played around

with them but it wasn’t until he was he was 18 and he got

into the blues (Robert Johnson) He said that he could of

liked techno but he thought that white people trying to be

black is wrong. He said he might have had more friends if