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Based in New York City, Ervin L. Robinson, Jr.—also known as E-Truf—was born in the Bronx on June 18th, 1987.

Early on, he started dancing and playing musical instruments, however, his first taste of music was in elementary school. He was very eager to perform at his school’s talent shows every year.

E-Truf’s tumultuous life influenced his love of music. At the age of five, he lost his mother as well as, a victim of physical and sexual abuse before having to go into foster care. At this point, E-Truf found the love of music to help him escape reality and always hoped to be able to share his story with the world through his creativity.

Despite being heavily influenced by Hip-Hop and R&B, E-Truf’s musical stylings are diverse. E-Truf’s music is very complicated because everything comes from a special place in his heart and is delivered in such a truthful and cutthroat demeanor. He wants others to experience his emotions by speaking about pain, sorrow, loneliness, and social occurrences happening in the world. Through his music, he wants people to see there is a light at the end of the tunnel, one must work hard to get there.

Much of his influences comes from his son, Greyson, who was born May 20th, 2017. Artist like Biggie, 2 Pac, Nas, Eminem, Mase, Prodigy, J Cole, Rakim also inspire E-Truf’s sound. E-Truf admires music producers such as Timbaland, (Dr.) Dre, Pharrell and Swizz Beatz. Lastly, his father plays a pivotal role because E-Truf promised himself he would never be anything like his father; this acts as strong motivation to change his future.

So far, E-Truf has only one official instrumental he created—titled “Altered State”—that can be found on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Google Play, Pandora, and iHeartRadio. People can search for E-Truf’s music on any one of these platforms. The last show E-Truf performed was in 2008 in a contest for American Blast Energy drink where he won second place.

He is currently working on recording his first official 10-track EP.
He is the C.E.O of his production company where he creates, mixes and masters his own music, and is managing and producing an artist named A Live. He is currently a student at Full Sail University for his Bachelors in Science for Audio Productions. E-Truf will also be doing a 1-hour radio show called “What’s Up Full Sail” on the school’s radio station.

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