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No stranger to adversity, DeLoach’s music tells his story. He witnessed domestic violence in his home until age 6. When DeLoach was 9 his step brother committed suicide. By the time he was 16 his family’s house had been raided by the FBI and the only father figure he had at the time was now in a federal penitentiary for drug trafficking. With those odds, remaining in that vicious cycle seemed inevitable. Luckily, his passion for music changed everything.

Gerald DeLoach Jr., who records under his sir name DeLoach is a hip-hop artist based in Atlanta, GA. Lyrically versatile with his melodic southern roots and energy filled performances, he is often described as a blend of T.I., Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Big K.R.I.T.

Born in Louisiana and raised in Houston, TX at a young age DeLoach developed a keen interest in music and began to write his own songs and perform locally. He started to cultivate a fan base by winning competitions held by the Houston hip hop radio station 97.9 The Box, and eventually becoming the headliner of these various competitions. 
  
In 2010, he moved to Austin to gain an even bigger fan base by opening up for Trey Songz, Wiz Khalifa, and Wale, and touring with J. Cole and Big Sean.

DeLoach’s musical achievements include placing second in the TRCoA’s 2012 “Best Unsigned Band/Artist” Competition and being selected by the Austin Examiner as one of the Top 5 Hip-Hop Artists to Watch, being named Top Performing Artist by Study Breaks Magazine, a college magazine for students, and being nominated as Best Hip-Hop Artist by the Austin Music Awards. Additionally, in 2015, DeLoach was selected to perform as an official South by Southwest Festival artist and moved to Atlanta, GA to continue his musical pursuits.

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Mokah Soulfly (aka Waxing Moon, formerly Hunter) is a progressive, conscious songstress and hip-hop artist out of DFW (Dallas, Ft. Worth Metroplex) that is kicking down doors and making major waves as one of the newest and freshest Femcee/Singer/Songwriters on the DFW Hip-Hop Music Scene. With the soul-stirring yin yang combo of her melodic voice and flow coupled with the other side of the coin that is her intelligent and conscious spitfire tone and brand of delivery she proves not only to be a multi-talented vocalist but a formidable emcee respected in both female and male circles by fans and peers alike.

Riding the buzz from the release of her smash single "My Shoes", Hunter released her freshman album titled, "Same Love, Different Day" on January 17, 2012 to much local and regional praise and positive reviews. 

Her personal goal for the label is to see it grow into a positive and progressive force in the industry and to have it serve as a grass roots rooted engine geared towards cultivating social consciousness and facilitating entrepreneurial growth and business opportunities for young artists and entrepreneurs within the community. She is off to a great start already with the launch in January 2013 of her new internet radio show titled Grass Root Salute Radio Show that airs on Deep Ellum On Air & Yessurr.com. A woman of many talents and abilities, Mokah Soulfly writes, arranges, produces and cohosts the show alongside fellow cohost and writer for the show, her number one soul brother, confidant and trusted creative comrade Brenian Swift a capable emcee and vocalist in his own right.

Three new upcoming projects Mokah Soulfly currently has in the works involves her teaming up with one of her main partners in grind and number one soul brutha and comrade Brenian Swift. The first project is Swift's debut album Rise of the Riftler: A Book of Redemptive Warrior Song that mostly co-features Mokah Soulfly and is being produced by destined DFW legends grIMP & Dagger (Hologram Dagger) on the Waxtooth Record label scheduled to drop some time in 2015 (official drop date yet to be announced). And the Second project to come from this multi-talentend, multi-dimensional duo is a true team effort in the formation of an Afro-futuristic performance art group known as MysticVerse in a project titled Escape from Scar City: A Beginner's Guide to Terraforming Part 1 the music of which will be produced by Sky Paige aka Brenian Swift. This Album will feature Mokah Soulfly in the guise of her spiritual avatar Waxing Moon and Brenian Swift in the guise of his spiritual avatar Raven Looks Deeply (official drop date still to be announced).

Finally Mokah Soulfly is currently working on her sophomore album being produced by now DFW producer M Slago out of Tennessee. This album will be a Southern Neo-Soul Space and Trip Hop mixture full of Mokah Soulfly's signature melodic grace and jazzy conscious flow , spring 2015.

Mokah Soulfly has graced the stage of House of Blues, Trees Dallas, Gilley's (The Palladium), Life in Deep Ellum, Curtain Club, Club Dada, Zubar, The Green Elephant, Prophet Bar, Sandaga 813 and many of the other noteworthy venues past and present in the Dallas area.


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