About Tato Luchiano

"ON AUGUST 22, 1987 JOHN FREDY USMA AKA TATO LUCHIANO WAS BORN, IN THE CITY OF TEANECK,NJ. IN WHICH THE WORLD WOULD CHANGE, AFTER BEING BORN MOTHER ALBA USMA, AND FATHER JAVIER USMA (BOTH COLOMBIAN PARENTS) MOVED INTO A SMALL ATTIC THAT WAS THE SIZE OF A JAIL CELL. THE FATHER HAD TO WORK DOUBLE SHIFTS, MEANWHILE THE MOTHER HAD TO TAKE CARE OF 8 KIDS TO SUPPORT THE FAMILY. AT THE AGE OF 6 TATO TRIED OUT FOR THE "AYSO" SOCCER TEAM AND MADE IT. SINCE THAT AGE HIS FATHER ENCOURAGED AND SUPPORTED HIM IN HIS SOCCER CAREER. A FEW YEARS LATER, WHILE PLAYING SOCCER IN DWIGHT MORROW HIGH SCHOOL, HE WAS ALWAYS INFLUENCED INTO MUSIC AND ONE OF HIS "PARCEROS" (FRIEND'S) STARTED RAPPING AND HE CAUGHT ON TO IT LIKE HIS FIRST PASSION..... SOCCER, THIS TIME INSTEAD OF KICKING A BALL HE WAS KICKING RHYMES AND THE GOAL WAS FOR THE WORLD SPECTATE HIS DREAM. EVEN THOUGH HE WAS VERY TALENTED IN MANY AREAS SUCH AS DRAWING, AND PLAYING SOCCER WAS NOT FULFILLING HIS VISION. TATO NOW WAS IN AND OUT OF CLASSROOMS FILLING THE BACK OF HIS SCHOOL WORK WITH LYRICS. HE SOON FOUND OUT THAT ONE OF HIS FRIENDS HAD A MIC, BUT NOT WHAT HE ANTICIPATED IT TO BE. NOTHING WAS GOING TO STOP HIS DREAM EVEN IF HE HAD TO RAP ON A PC MIC AND RECORD USING "SOUND RECORDER" FOR WINDOWS. HE KEPT ON RECORDING UNTIL HE MET ONE OF HIS OLD FRIENDS, ANDRES AKA LECHE WAS AN ASPIRING LATIN RAPPER TOGETHER LECHE INTRODUCE TATO TO ONE OF HIS FRIENDS AND STARTED RECORDING IN HIS ROOM USING A STAGE MIC AND COOL EDIT PRO. THINGS WERE GOING OK UNTIL THE STUDIO GOT SHUT DOWN THEN IT WAS BACK TO ZERO AGAIN. EVERYTHING LOOKED LIKE IT WAS GOING DOWNHILL BUT TATO AND LECHE SAVED MONEY AND BROUGHT THEMSELVES A MICROPHONE AND LAPTOP. BEING FROM A HISPANIC BACKGROUND TATO'S PARENTS WERE NOT 100% INTO THE MUSIC BUSINESS, WHICH MADE THINGS A LITTLE MORE COMPLICATED. TATO COULDNT RAP IN HIS HOUSE THE ONLY PLACE HE COULD RAP WAS IN HIS GARAGE SO THE GARAGE WAS THE NEW STUDIO. RECORDING IN A GARAGE WASN'T THAT BIG OF A DEAL UNTIL THE WINTER CAME. TATO AND LECHE RECORDED IN A GARAGE WHILE BEING PRACTICALLY OUTSIDE, THE TEMPERATURE WAS ALMOST THE SAME IN FACT SOMETIMES IT FELT COLDER SO THEY HAD TO RAP IN THIER NORTHFACE JACKETS. DAY AND NIGHT THE FREEZING WINDS WOULDN'T STOP THEM FROM PURSUING THIER DREAMS. SEEING THE STRUGGLE AND DETERMINATION TATO'S PARENTS COULDNT LET THEM STAY OUTSIDE IN THE COLD SO THEY LET THEM MOVE THE STUDIO INTO THE BASEMENT. FINALLY HAVING SOME HEAT AND SOMEWHERE MORE COMFORTABLE TO RECORD MADE THEM MORE DETERMINED, TO MAKE THINGS EVEN BETTER LECHE WON A LAWSUIT AND WITH THAT MONEY THEY BOUGHT EVERYTHING THEY NEEDED. WHILE RAPPING HE MET THE MOTHER OF HIS CHILD THATS WHEN BEING A FATHER CAME INTO ROLE. IN SEPTEMBER 3, 2005 (MELANY NICOLE USMA) WAS BORN. TATO NOW BEING A FATHER NOW WAS RECORDING AND TAKING CARE OF HIS DAUGHTER. TATO AND LECHE RECORDED ALOT OF HITS IN THE BASEMENT AND THIER WAS WHEN WILMAR AKA REYMAR THE COUSIN OF TATO INTRODUCED THEM TO TWONDON.TWONDON A YOUNG RISING INTERNET SENSATION MET WITH TATO AND LECHE AND FROM THEIR IT WAS UPHILL TO THE TOP. TATO STARTED RAPPING WITH TWONDON AND WAS FEATURED ON HIS MIXTAPE "WHERE'S MY CROWN VOL.2" FROM THIER TATO AND TWONDON FORMED A TIGHT FRIENDSHIP. TWONDON THE CEO OF "UPPER CLASS ENT". SAW TALENT IN TATO AND IMMEDIATELY TOOK HIM ON HIS NOTORIOUS TEAM. NOW TATO IS DOING SHOWS, PHOTOSHOOTS, MUSIC VIDEOS, PRODUCING AND RECORDING WITH LOCAL ARTIST AROUND THE AREA. TATO IS DETERMINED TO MAKE IT TO THE TOP AND HE WANT TO MAKE A BIG BOOM IN HIS UP IN COMING FIRST ALBUM "FIRST IMMPRESSION" THE NAME SHOULD SAY IT ALL. SO GET READY AND PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE UPPER CLASSMEN TATO LUCHIANO AND PRESIDENT TWONDON THE BEST YOUNGEST RAPPER ALIVE TO GIVE YOU 1,000,000 % MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT!!! LOOKOUT FOR TATO HE MIGHT BE IN A TOWN NEAR YOU!!!!"

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