BIOGRAPHY

Shawn Jermaine Barner was born on July 9, 1986 in Atlanta, Ga. where he developed a creative gift at an early age. He began to take up drawing wanting to became a cartoon animator when he grew up but, he also took a interest to music as well. At an early age Shawn was influenced by rap culture listening to artist like Outkast, Master P, Three Six Mafia, and many others inspiring him to write his own rap songs on instrumentals from his fathers cassettes and record them on his cassette recorder.

After moving from Decatur where he spent most of his child hood, he would end up in Rockdale County while in his teens. He became more involved with producing music after being introduced to production software such as FL Studio. Shawn also had interest in technology, engineering and architecture while taking it as an elective at his high school. This made him decide that engineering would be a career path he wanted to pursue. This would change again however when he took a video production elective his senior year. Already having knowledge about production from setting up live shows and working sound engineering at his youth church, he figured this would be something new he could learn. That class would ultimately make him decide that he wanted to pursue a multimedia career and he enrolled at The Art Institute of Atlanta summer of 2004.

Over the next few years he recieved more in-depth knowledge about the media industry picking up and perfecting skills such as shooting, producing, directing, script writting, and editing. He was also introduced to other media markets such as web and graphic design. Not only was he picking up skills in school but outside as well. While in school he also interned at CBS Radio shooting and editing content for V103 webmag and editing content for dimewars.com after he finished school. Shawn has also done a number of freelance projects and is currently employeed as a camera/control room operator at The Gem Shopping Network in Duluth, GA. When he looks back, there are many things that led him to where he is today he can be thankful for. Only thing he can do is continue to aim high for the stars.