When I was a kid sports was EVERYTHING to me. I loved it so much and hated when I wasn't playing something. Hockey, Baseball or Golf, it needed to be one or the other. I always wanted to play Hockey though. I dreamed of making it big time and even though that was SO far fetched I wanted to try. Freshman year of High School I made the Varsity Hockey team and midway through the year I blew out my shoulder, everything changed for me.

Not being able to play a sport for the first time while watching all my friends get to do it just really stung. I felt like I had nothing, no purpose, no anything and I didn't know how to manage that. I always had faith in God but it was a very lukewarm faith. So while being injured I stumbled upon Hip-Hop. I've always had a love for music and liked to sing here and there but when I heard rap for the first time I was HOOKED. So much that I started to want to become a HipHop artist. I put in countless hours trying to perfect my craft (while being injured). I knew that this was the path I wanted to take and make a career of one day. It has been a super up and down journey, having self doubt, no really having the support I expected. I really was back and forth of if this was the path for me. As time passed and I was making more music, something just wasn't feeling right. It felt as if I was trying to make what I thought other would like to hear versus what I wanted to make. So I told myself one day that my faith is most important to me, I will from here on out express my faith boldly and firmly in every song/project that I make.

Its a long story but it all ties together. While I was hurt and making music, I was doing things that I shouldn't have been doing living a very sinful lifestyle. I was living for the world and not God. I have struggled my whole life and even do to this day. I know now though that when we have Jesus that our problems are never insurmountable. There is a reason I went through what I went through. Since I had to stop playing sports competitively due to my injury, I still wanted to be active but also share the gospel while also making music. So I came up with the idea of starting "CRWND". 

I wanted to start an athletic brand that was specifically for christian athletes trying to further the kingdom and also show athletes that the sport you're playing isn't the most important thing. It's a platform to share your faith. But I also wanted to make this a brand that everyone could rock and put on for the kingdom. Ultimately after my wife had been grilling me saying "what is your brand?!". She said something that really hit the nail on the head for what I've been wanting to make it. Thats encouraging people to be active physically but also actively sharing the gospel. So if my music and this brand is able to bring at least one more person closer to Jesus than I believe I'm doing something right. James 1:12 "Blessed is the man that remains steadfast under trial, but when he stood the test he will receive the crown of life which God has promised to those who love him"

 Live CRWND!

-Eric