Da Grimm One Bio

Theo Royle aka Da Grimm One was born at Walsgrave Hospital on July 28th of the year 1988 to bi-racial mother Donna Royle and black father Keith Bryan. He is the 2nd of 5 children

Da Grimm One grew up round Pridmore a part of the city where money was short and crime was high, although his mother always tried her best to make sure that him and his older brother was always dressed well. As a youth as his dad was more of a come and go dad (not really helping his mum raise the kids) so his Aunt and Nan would always help out his mother in raising him and his brother in the earlier years.

He then moved out of Pridmore and went uptown to a neighbourhood called Holbrooks aka Holbronx at the age of 8 when his sister was born, Although he still used to go Pridmore to visit his Nan often and his best friend Midge and he would spend the whole summer down there as he was very close to his Nan until the she died on 12th September 1999 which then took a massive change in his life. As a child he was far from shy as he'd talk to anyone who would talk to him but was also comically violent due to his very high interest in wrestling he used to think he was Hulk Hogan. His favourite cartoons growing up was X-Men, Spiderman, Justice League, Dragonball Z and Samurai Jack, he also had a high interest on hood movies and black comedy movies.

Music had always been a strong part of his life growing up from listening to Dancehall Artists such as Shabba Ranks, Chaka Demus & Pliers, Bounty Killer & Mad Cobra to Hip Hop Artists like Biggie Smalls, Mase, LL Cool J, Naughty By Nature, 2pac, Nas, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes and The Fugees.

After being influenced by some many different artists he decided he wanted to learn how to play an instrument and joined the school steel band and got the chance twice to perform in front of the whole school. He also joined the school choir and got the opportunity to perform at the city cathedral.

Not all too long after that things took a turn for the worst and he became involved in a gang within the school which lead to him being dropped from the school choir and the police in to have a strong word with all the gangs in the school hall.

It was during school when music took a bigger part of his life in which he wrote his first two songs at the age of 13 "Too Hot Too Handle" and "Too Cold Too Hold" although he never got around to recording them songs he then proceeded to continue writing songs as he felt a passion for this.

Although he tried many times to leave the bad side it just kept calling him back and at the age of 15 is the first time in which he found himself in cuffs due to him and a friend got caught robbing HMV and was found to have over £500 worth of products whilst in possession of offensive weapons a crowbar and a knife

By this time his mum had taken a lot from his behaviour over the years and when he was 16 she was forced to kick him out due to the stress that he was causing so in turn he went to go live with his Aunt, for so many reasons that didn't work out so then he went back to live with his mum.

Then at the age of 19 he started selling weed and extorting dealer's out west of the city. This was something that he was doing well and enjoying it too until he was nearly killed by another drug dealer whilst in mcDonalds drive through car park, who was a friend of a dealer that he was extorting.

After that is when he decided to leave the drug scene alone and just went back to street violence. By the age of 20 he got heavy into the street life found himself involved in a lot of street violence all across the area fighting against many other crews while under the influence of booze in which he gained his name "Grimm".

At the age of 21 music then crept back into his life a friend of is who grew up in the same neighbourhood Lloyd "Bergy" Jackson gave him a link to a studio guy called Scratch Rama. After hearing a freestyle of his in the studio, Scratch then decided he wanted him to join his group The EQ'z, they were an afro based group in which combined Hip Hop and RnB with Congolese native music.

He then decided to leave The EQ'z and go alone due to physical confrontations between himself & both Scratch Rama & another member, also as he didn't like or wanna go the way that The EQ'z were going so he then decided to create his own team "DA LT's" (Dark Artz Lethal Team)

At the age of 22 Da Grimm One then attended a spiritualist and became a weekly regular as he then converted to spiritualism in which calmed him down and gave him a new outlook on life.