I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
South Central is just who I am.
I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side.
The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
I'm from L.A. South Central area.
I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.
I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.
I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to Chicago to go through the Second City Conservatory Program.
Carbondale, Ill. is where I went to college, and it's where I first started putting on shows.