NORLAN "EPiC" VELASQUEZ

Born and raised in Tucson, AZ 6/20/1995

Graduated from Desert View High School, Tucson, Az May 2013. Growing up listening and being influenced by hip-hop artist like "Eminem, Roscoe Dash, Mac Miller" at age 14 freshman year (2009) and with no income EPiC wanted to pursue his dreams of a rap artist, he met Lucas "LUC" Rodriguez with a studio and EPiC quickly learned how to compose and produce music thanks to LUC. Sophomore year he met NJayy "ASTRO" Ross and Zachary "Zee*" Shoaf created a music group called Cloud 20 "C20" and started making music together but the group separated after a year but still kept in touch.

In 2010 EPiC and Zee* went on to join a group called "Vision That Ent"

with Angel "Renk Remy" Clark. Astro went on to create his solo independent label called "Forever Tucson".  In 2011, EPiC got the group Vision That involved with his High School and performed at festival events, and pep assembly's that the school hosted. The group stayed well connected to LUC and Astro and supported each others dreams. In 2012, EPiC gathered some money and built a home studio where he created mixtapes and showcased a mixtape every month with about 20 demos in each mixtape featuring his friends Astro, Luc, Zee*, Renk, Dre (Andre), Chem(Eddie), The Source(Alan R), Estevan Cota, Stevie Young (Esteban H), LoKey The Kid(Steven), Jordan S, Esoe(Fausto) Jimmy Coltrane and some more artist that pursued the same dream. 

As they went on into 2013, a year EPiC and his friends would never forget, Astro Ross sadly committed suicide which drove EPiC to honor and keep his spirit alive through his music. With so much life-changing moments and emotion that year EPiC managed to graduate high school and go on to college but he dropped out of college 2014 and started working on building his dream career in the music business. Still making music with Jimmy Coltrane, Zee* and Renk Remy for Vision That Ent. Things only got better as more people started showing support for the group and opened up new windows for the artists. EPiC managed to get his music on the local radio stations in his city and met one of the finest film directors in Tucson known as Yung Mac Films and started making music videos for the group.

In 2015, the year was full of music and eventually the group was expanding it's creativity making beats, music videos, and performing with other local artist and in 2016 the group did an amazing video in Lompoc, California and later that year EPiC split up with the group only pushing him to take things in his own hands and that didn't stop him from starting his own label called "eYeEntertainment" x "Forever Tucson Empire" in honor of Astros Label. With Luc, Jimmy Coltrane, Chem, Andre, The Source and other artist involved in the scene we know them boys are gonna be up to something! EPiC released a mixtape Nov. 2k16 and released a music video "FWM" in Dec. 2k16 staying active, we cannot wait for what "iEntertainment" has to offer in the year of 2k17, stay tuned and check out the links for more info!!!