Burnell Herring:  

CLASS OF 1988
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East High SchoolClass of 1988
Rockford, IL
East Middle SchoolClass of 1983
Aurora, CO

Burnell's Story

Burnell is from Chicago, Illinois. Burnell's schools include East High School, Frankfurt American Junior High School, East Middle School. Burnell works(ed) at United States Army, County Of Riverside, Capo Muzik. Music Burnell likes includes Red Sun, Patricia Banks, Japan. Books Burnell likes include Daily verse of The Holy Quran, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings. Movies Burnell likes include G.I. Joe, Black Panther, The Shawshank Redemption. TV shows Burnell likes include The King of Queens, CSI: Miami, King of Queens. One of Burnell's favorite quotes is:"I'm underground so deep, I dig an inch and be in China! A.K.-S.W.I.F.T. I am the punishment of God, if you haven't commited great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you. Genghis Khan.". More about Burnell:"1995 Echo Award winner "Single of the year" Song "Omen III" Magic Affair Music Producer Artist/Songwriter Dancer/Choreographer Deejay Actor A.K.-S.W.I.F.T. the rare and talented Hip Hop artist from the Southside of Chicago, has a classical music background, skills in Breakdancing, Dance Choreography, Deejaying, and Music Production, he has proven to the world that he can do more than hold his own in the Music Biz. This lyrical acrobat made his debut in 1991 with the Techno Trance project “True Minds” the single’s title “Underground Prophet”. After a few years of featured singles, A.K. finally got his big break in 1994 with the Dancefloor project “Magic Affair”, the song’s title “Omen III” which went No. 1 on the German charts, No. 5 in Israel , No. 18 in the UK, and Top 10 Europe wide, and continued success with 3 more singles, “Give me all your love”, No.7 on the German charts, No. 30 in the UK, and Top 10 Europe wide, “In the middle of the night”, No. 29 on the German charts, No. 43 in the UK, Top 30 Europe wide, and “Fire”, No. 50 on the German charts, No. 4 in Israel, Top 40 Europe wide, Magic Affair was honoured with Gold and Platinum in Germany for "Omen III", Gold In Austria for "Omen III" with millions of copies sold worldwide, and Gold in Germany for " Give me all your love", led to a successful Top 10 album, and won the prestigious ECHO AWARD (European Grammy) in 1995 for "Dance Single Of The Year”, afterwards A.K. stepped down to pursue his Hip Hop career. In 1996 A.K. released a single together with group "C-BLOCK" Song title “Shake dat azz”, a year later A.K teamed up with Booya-Music, and was featured on Toni Cottura's first solo project Song title "Da Party boom", at this time going on a back-to-back tour with the "Backstreet Boys" and "N'sync. Later A.K released his first solo project “Light In Me" placing No. 19 on the German Charts, which also debut in Germany's hit movie "14 tage lebenslanglich" (14 days to life), months later A.K. released his second single “In The Game” which placing No. 32 on the german charts. A.K also participated in the "Big Basketball Challenge" with ...Expand for more
stars like, Dennis Rodman, Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, and Nana, in which all of the proceeds went to a cancer research fund for children. Later that year A.K produced a track called "Pick up the speed" for the german inline skater Dirk Auer for his successful 1997 Inline High speed World Record with 307km/h in Nardo/Italy behind a Porsche/Carrera racing car. In 1998 A.K's voice and rap appeared in the Playstation game "Bust-A-Groove", and later that year A.K. Co- Produced and released a single called “The Professional” which was released under Alex (Das Boot) Christiansen’s Label “Kingsize” In 1999 A.K. reunited with Booya-Music and released the single “It's On", which placed No. 75 on the German charts, followed by the single, “Do you wanna die?” released in 2000.. In 2001 A.K. Wrote and Co-Produced the song "you know the names" for Germany's S. Oliver's Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) which is the "Official song" of the German Basketball League. 2003 A.K Co-produced and wrote the song "Here we come " for the European NFL team Frankfurt Galaxy (Who became World Bowl Champions shortly afterwards). A.K. also appears on the song “Who’s Next” on “LARGE” debut album “Larger than life”, and two songs (One Nation and Sunburn) on Simon Collins (Son of Phil Collins) Sophomore album released in 2005. In 2004 A.K., participated in The Charity event SOS Asien-Kinderdorf sponsored by Tiger & Dragon Events in Sinsheim, Germany. The event was to raise funds for homeless children in Asia. Later that year 2004 A.K. went to school and became a NCAA Official Referee in Football and Basketball, refereeing for the United States Army Sports, for the soldiers, and their children, in support of the troops during the Iraqi war. In 2007 I produced and wrote 2 songs "I Growl (Step Back)" featuring "Kevin Iszard" and "I wanna pussycat" featuring "My Linh" for the German movie "Madonnas" aka "Madonnen", In 2008 Magic Affair’s original members reunited and released new remixes of "Omen III" under "Balloon Records" in Austria, in that year A.K. started his commercial acting debut for Lindy Electronics (New cable company), and Avia (Fuel resource), unfortunately he had no spoken parts, A.K. also featured on the mixtape “Serioussam Presents-Westside meets Westside vol. 1” song title “Humbold Style” with Mopreme Shakur (Brother of Tupac Shakur), Eko Fresh, and Hakan Abi. In 2009 Magic Affair performed on German televisions “RTL Chartshow”, which "Magic Affair" placed #24 from the top 100 most successful dance floor hits of all time, and are currently working on the new Magic Affair album (Producers: A.K.-S.W.I.F.T. Bernd Waldstadt), and appearing on 4 songs with the E.R.R. Project (Euro Rap Revival) sponsored by T-Music and Euro-Rap, while simultaneously producing his upcoming solo album “Chronicles of a Ghettoninja” under his online label Thugknightz Entertainment, A.K.-S.W.I.F.T. isn’t back, HE NEVER LEFT!!!".
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My Cousins Judy, Adrian, and Melody.
Me and my Cousin/Partner in Crime Carla.
Me and my Homeboy Benjamin Boyce Chillin out last night in Friedberg, away from the Biz acting like fools.
Got my cook on last night, I hooked my Family up with some Chinese Good, Chicken and Shrimp Egg Food Yung, with Sweet and Sour, and my Soy Sauce Broth ;-)
Me and my Cousins Carla Abernathy and Andrea Jefferson.
Me and my Cousins Tunice Herring, Judy, Phyllis, and Andrea.
This is how my Family in Joliet Illinois chill...,Daily!
Me my Sister and Brother Popati Daidonknwme Momanyi and Cedric.
White Castle Ya'll!!!
My Family getting their eat on, like always ;-)
My Family getting their eat on, like always ;-)  pt 2
Me Judy and Andrea clowning'
My Cousin Melody Abernathy-Robertson on her 73rd Bday.
My Family getting their eat on, like always ;-)  pt 3
My Cousins Carla Abernathy and Diamond.
My Bday Cousin Kinya C Mason
My Cousin Melody.
My Cousins Kinya C Mason and Angelina Norris.
My other younger Brother Clayton Womack.
My Cousins Marcus Miller and Judy.
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