Hulon Crayton

Hulon E. Crayton II, was born December 19, 1981 to Dr. Hulon Crayton and Attorney Dinah Crayton in Madison, WI.

Biography
Throughout Hulon's youth, his parents traveled as performing artists and toured as military officers in the United States Army overseas. As a result, Hulon had moved from town-to-town, including Chicago, Milwaukee, Brooklyn, Bronx, Harlem, Queens, Champaign-Urbana, Colorado Springs, Panama City Beach and many other cities across the US. Although growing in an unstable environment, Hulon found solace in growing up in the entertainment business, because he was inspired by those around him. Some of those influential people include artists Dave Koz, Jeff Kashiwa, Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, his uncle Gary Foote of Blood Sweat and Tears and other greats alike; along with actors Robert Pastorelli, , Stanley Kamel and Christopher Penn; athletes Kellen Winslow and Lindsay Knapp; politicians Tom Barrett, Steve Meadows, David Paterson; and other notable figures such as Frank Balistrieri. Hulon's father's involvement in the NFL and Semi-pro teams influenced him to play football and other competitive sports. This enabled Hulon to play high school football with and made the play-offs, state championships and all-star games, having earned varsity letters for football and track.. As a US ranked athlete, he was offered several athletic scholarships to play Division I sports. He graduated with a degree in Media Arts and received a Conference USA Academic Award while at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Career
Influenced by music, Hulon was inspired to create songs and eventually struck a deal as a ghost songwriter for several artists in his teenage years. Through his time in New Orleans as a performing artist, he had began songwriting and producing for Universal Music Group (UMG). Aside from music, Hulon had partaken in a few bit roles in films and television shows, such as Monster's Ball, The Shield, and The Brooke Ellison Story.. His experience in the entertainment business, led him to start Premier Booking & Management Co (which represents A/B list actors, models, screenplay writers and bands) one of the music industry's top management firms and Premier Musique Group, along with recent partner, Mike The Pike Films, LLC to produce several films, including actors Burt Reynolds, Chris Elliot, Fred Williamson, Patricia Clarkson and others.

Trivia
* He claims to be a descendant of arctic explorer Matthew Henson; however, Henson had no American children with his wife, and only one Eskimo child with his companion Akatingwah. All of Matthew Henson's Inuit descendents live in Greenland.

Selected Productions & Assisted Works
*Film
*Commercial/Television
*Music

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