Whats Da Word?

Singing at the tender age of 3, TBII or as most know him as Thurman B. Thornton II was born in the city of St. Louis, Mo. has since matured into a strong vessel that God has placed in this world to minister to souls through song. "I come from a musical family...mostly everybody in my family could sing, so I didn't have a choice in this thing!" From sunshine bands to singing in groups, TBII always was a part of some musical entity in hopes of one day being on stages worldwide. After several attempts with groups and not really reaching anywhere, he would come to experience hardship like never before that would test his faith in God, his desire to sing and even live. TBII suffered great loss in his life with the passing of his brother, his mother and his father from 2009-2011 and because of those deaths it caused him to go into a deep and dark depression. "I was drinking, smoking, cutting, and doing more and more damage to myself every day because of the hurt of losing people I really cared about." Losing his way, TBII made several suicide attempts and while he didn't succeed at any of them the effects took their toll on his mind and he had lost the energy to even sing. "I had given up and I told God that if you wanted this to happen then you make it happen," not realizing the power in his words a song was birthed thru this painful process and TBII began to express his pain and depression thru the only channel that he had left...music. TBII wrote and released his first single entitled "More" independently and it gained the attention of indie label New York Connect Entertainment and its CEO Will Young. "Will loved the record and he wanted to redistribute it as well as produce a whole album, and that was the beginning of something epic for me, because I had no idea that this was going to happen." With a newfound lease on life, He and the label began working on what was to be his debut album, with production from Jay Wash, it seemed everything was workin