RESUME:
To Whom It May Concern:
Hi my name is Carl
Eugene Powell. I was born September 30, 1976 in
Muncie, Indiana. For the first six years of my life
I lived with my mother. At six, my two sisters and
I were taken away from my mother. Three of my cousins
were taken away from there mom as well. Luckily
I was only in the children's home for a month or
two before my father got me out. Unfortunately my
two sister's father didn't get them out. From there
I went to stay with my Dad, my step mother, and
step sister. My father was transferred to Oklahoma
City through his job General Motors. From second
grade up until fifth grade I experienced continuous
physical, mental, and emotional abuse from my step
mother. My father worked half the time and I was
too afraid to tell him what was going on. I would
constantly get mistreated by her on a daily basis
to the point where other kids knew they could get
me in trouble at anytime just by telling on me to
her. My Dad finally found out and I would have to
constantly watch them physically fight over me.
They finally broke up and my Dad got sick when I
was in fifth grade. I went to stay with my Aunt
Rosie in Indiana. I stayed there one year, then
moved back to Oklahoma with my father. My Dad was
on disability, so we didn't have much money. It
was then he started selling drugs to take care of
me. I got expelled from school my seventh grade
year, then we moved back to Indiana were I did my
second year in seventh grade. In eighth and ninth
grade (again) we moved back to Oklahoma. When I
was ten years old luckily I found something I found
joy and confidence in besides, my father, that was
football. My freshman year in college my Dad was
raided for drugs twice (one of the scariest moments
of my life). My father died of kidney failure when
I was sixteen. My father was the only family I grew
up around. From there I went to stay with my Aunt.
My Dad left me a lot of money, but he left it to
my Aunt. I only saw five thousand dollars of that
money. I lived with my Aunt one year until I moved
out on my own the end of my junior year. I promised
my father on his death bed I would make him proud.
So instead of being on the streets I begin to lift
weights to prepare myself for football. I was unable
to play my sophomore year because of academics.
I was in the weight room six days a week, three
hours a day. I played linebacker and fullback my
junior and senior year at Muncie Central High School.
I was all-county, all-area, all-conference, and
allstate linebacker my junior and senior year. I
should have been all-American but I was too small
of a linebacker. I was recruited by many Big Ten
Schools, but because of my grades I had the choice
of sitting out of football my first year in college
or junior college. I chose junior college. I went
to College of Dupage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois for
one year because they cancelled the football program
the following year. I had my little boy Carl Eugene
Powell II on August 6, 1996. Instead of going to
Kentucky State to play I went back home to be with
my son to play for Ball State University. I went
there for two and a half years. I played there for
a short time. Overwhelmed by church, football, school,
my son, baby momma drama!, and bills, all to handle
by myself I quit football and joined the U.S Army
in august of 2001. My life has been a constant struggle.
God has blessed me to put all that pain into song.
I've written 12 songs all from my experience. Four
songs I sing and eight I rap. Titled: Souljah, My
turn to shine, Daddy's A Souljah, Love, Change,
Give me, My hope, His love is so amazing, Lord it's
you, Dear God, A Place (Heaven), The Realest. I
love music!!! I believe I have something to share
that people can relate too. I have one year left
in the Army and I know for a fact that I won't be
going over seas. If given a record deal there is
a policy were they let you out.
