Fantom Man Bio

Jamaurice Devron Holt, (born December 13, 1989), better known by his stage name Fantom Man, is an American rapper, song writer, and music producer. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, where he lived with both of his parents, in a household of seven people with his two older brothers and one older sister and younger sister He attended Flat Shoal Elementary in Decatur, Georgia. He started playing the piano (keyboard) at the age of 7 years old and continues enhancing his musical ability throughout his life as an adolescence. After see his interest and gift in playing the piano mother enrolls him in a piano class in hoping that he would learn how to read the music notes, but after three days of teaching, the music teacher complained that he was playing everything she was teaching by ear and he needed a different and more advanced approach. After absorbing the way media was distributed through the World Wide Web and being inexperienced to how he was going to get himself known, he quickly grasped the knowledge needed and taught himself how to build and design websites to promote his music. Observing many other online successes, he strived on perfecting his presence online and expanding, so the world could notice his accomplishments. But that’s not where it stops,and the thing that people failed to realize is he records, edits, mix, and masters all his music himself, and even writes his own lyrics and come up with all the hooks by himself. Which means he sit alone in the studio and works by himself as he mention “I set a timer that gives me four measure so I got to press record then run in the booth before the track starts recording”.

Visiting Hot 107.9

Well it was strange when I went cause I never been before and to see how a radio station was built and the different rooms for recording and live radio performances was interesting. So I followed Djredd, the radio host of battleground and two other people in which he called “his team” down the hall and they lead us into a room which had speakers and radio equipment. They sat down, I gave him the cd with the song “The Fantom Man” and he asked a couple question about my name and where I was from and who is my manager. Then he started asking questions like…. Who recorded this? Who mix this? Who Master this? Who edit this? Who is your team? So I replied “well I did it all and I’m my team”. He looked at me confuse and told me “well usually people who bring in cd’s and songs that they did by themselves don’t sound good” and he really didn’t want to even play it cause his doubts were high on the song not sounding worthy of even being considered studio quality. He was about to hand the cd back and for a slight second of his curiosity changed his mind and said “I’m gone play it, but I doubt its gone sound good and if it do then you got a talent or something”. He took the cd out the case and put it in the cd player slot and continued to turn it up and held his head on his hand. After the first 25 seconds Djredd and his staffed member’s begin to bounce there heads and continue listening all the way close to the end of the song. Then finally he stops the cd and slowly turned to me and said “You have a talent and you need to keep doing what you’re doing”. His staff members were giving me compliments on how the song sounded full and that’s what the radio been missing and needed now a days. He only recommends one thing that I change before he plays the song on battleground. The beginning of the song was too long and he wanted me to shorten it up and send it back to him. He told me he’s not gone tell me when it plays though due to the fact that recent people who got played on battleground told there friends to call in on the day of the song being played which gave false results on the popularity of the song world wide. So I went home and sent the song back and still waiting on the song to get played.
Yet and still that’s just scratching the surface, Fantom Man has not only developed his gift in the music field, but has also matured on the film production scene. He has written a 125 page movie in which he hope to get published, which is to give people a better understanding of what made him the individual that he is and the struggles he had to go through to become “Fantom Man”. Upon moving out of Dekalb County, he moved to Fayetteville, Georgia were he begin attending Fayette County High School for a better education. Raised in a lower-middle-class background, still producing music he mentioned "I remember my old Casio keyboard in which I still got and still use it from time to time, but I use to sit in the dark beside my bed at 11:30p.m. till the morning, and just vibing to a five second beat I made" “And for that I was always late to school and always use to have to go to the office to check-in, but they got so use to me that they had the tardy slips prepared before I got there.” Unknowing the result that his music and talents will bring, he continue making instrumentals and entertaining his family in the living room with songs in which he says "I was just freestyling to beats that I had made, with my brothers in the living room just joking around, but the flow wasn't as good as it is today, but that's just a sign of progression”. He begin to seriously endure rapping at the age of 13 as he found himself jotting down raps in his notepad in the back of class, describing the way he felt about everyday life event and situations he faced with being doubted by critics and people that was unsure if he would become the next big hit. As he continued to move forward on his journey to success and painted his life through his music, he saw himself being idolized by his peers surrounding him as they begin to look up to him. With his egoistic flow, ability to produce, master, mix, record and market his music by himself, makes him a valuable asset to record labels in the music industry of today's society. With his determination and self motivation, random people in his neighborhood would say, "It would be impossible to stop him from breaking into the music industry and becoming a big influence on people trying to make it in the music industry". After long hour of dedication and hard work he manages to bring a new voice and a pristine style to the south.

After being asked several times how did he come up with the name “Fantom Man”, he finally releases the compelling reason.
The Name “Fantom Man”

As Fantom Man remembered, “At first it was just Fantom in which I got one day while I was recording in the studio with some friends.” “They would always joke with me about turning out all the lights when I record and was like ay man your something like a phantom” .I stepped out of the booth and asked him, what was that and which he repeated it, which lead me to repeat it to myself. “They always asked me what’s wrong because I tend to go off into space when I have a good idea.” I told them, the name, I like it. And they started laughing and asking me was I serious. And I told them yeah it suits me except I don’t like the spelling. So I change the “Ph” to an “F” and spelled it “Fantom”. Days went by and people were in the Fayette County parking-lot dancing and snapping to some song. Minutes later 3 people ran up to me and ask me if I can make a dance song cause the rapper they was listening to could really rap and they knew I could. In the beginning I was like “I don’t dance so why would I make a dance song”, but they kept begging me and told me that they will buy it from me. So I was like ok I will do it and give it to u for free, just to satisfy my fans. But the caught was they couldn’t show nobody and just to be honest making a dance song was one of the hardest song I ever wrote because I really don’t make that type of music. After completing the dance song I took it back to school and gave it to them and reminded them to never give it to anybody. A few weeks after graduating from Fayette County High School a boy and two girls that I had never seen before ran up to me and was like what’s up “Fantom Man”. And I asked them where they get the “Man” from and they then begin to tell me they heard my dance song and said it was hot. I was somewhat shock and confused at the same time. So I asked them how they heard it and they said it was playing at a party and everybody was dancing to it. So I played it off and told them “oh yeah I appreciate that and I got more coming” and as they walked off I keep repeating the name over and over in my head “Fantom Man” Fantom Man”. So from then on I change it from “Fantom” to “Fantom Man”.