3-Star Bio

Born Derrick Hunt (Champaign, IL August 14, 1979) started writing music at the age of 14 in hopes of becoming an MC. While attending high school in Indianapolis, Indiana he led a troubled life. Knowing he needed to find a more constructive outlet he shifted his focus from music to sports, primarily Football and Track.

All the while playing sports while writing the occasional song or two he was invited to play football at Indiana State University where he participated for 2 years. Deciding to cut his football career cut short he decided to shift his non academic focus to Music. This is when he started making beats in a program called Anvil Studio. Derrick would work at Wal-mart and hustle during the day and make music at night.

In May of 2002 Derrick graduated with a BS in Health Education with a teaching certification he wanted to help troubled youth engaging in behaviors which plagued his youth. One year later while running afterschool programming for inner-city youth Derrick started creating music using FL Studio and produced his first album Bi-Polar. He produced and wrote the whole thing. During this time he also volunteered as the music director and manager the top middle school step team in Indianapolis (Shortridge MS Diamond Divas).

In June of 2005 Derrick relocated with his future wife to Plano, Texas. While here he continued making music finding creative ways to reinvent himself using FL Studio. It was then he produced his first group and second group (The Drop Boys and NOB). This is also when he met Jon Conley of Step One of Dallas Entertainment. He would later serve as Director of Music and Event Operations for Step One. At this time Derrick started using Reason 3 and an Oxy 8 keyboard to make music and started producing a new artist named Dirt E Bird.
At a Step One practice for an annual show Derrick met Runway. Later that week Runway visited Derrick's studio and they musically connected. A week later Runway's main producer played him shady and Derrick and Runway decided that his next album "Neighborhood Star" would be produced by 3 Star Music Productions. During this project they formed a team which would later lead to a meeting with AD Brown who would complete the team as their Business Manager. Derrick's undying dedication, work ethic, persistence, musical creativity and intelligence makes him one of the hottest upcoming producers in the game and one third of one of the hottest teams coming up in the game. You can catch Derrick showcasing his talents as a teacher and football coach during the day and beat maker, sound engineer, writer, graphic artist, website creator, business man, Hip Hop artist, Rock artist, computer programmer, marketing specialist, product developer and all around jack of all trades at night. He can be reached at dhunt@threestarproductions.com

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