Warren Bellazer:  

Life Kateb Nuri Shunnar (Warren Bellazer II) was born September 10, 1978 in New Orleans, LA, to Warren August Bellazer I and Marva Hill-Bellazer Trinity. While he was very young his parents divorced, and his father forfeited all contact with him. Therefore, he and his older sister Earraina were raised by their mother and grandmother. Warren goes into detail about one of the hardest times of his childhood; “I still remember my mom, my sister, and I lived in a car on the corner of Ursuline Street and Saint Claude which was only a few blocks from the CBD and the French Quarters. When my sister and I were asleep my mother would stay awake all night with her little .22 hand gun to make sure no one came to mess with us." This tribulation ended when his mother made the decision to move in with her sister Viola and her husband while she worked to support her family. Bellazer quotes, “My mother was a strong black woman. What I admired most about her, growing up, was that she always did what she had to in order to make sure her children were taken care of.” Growing into a young man, Bellazer made many decisions concerning his future. In 1994, Bellazer became a vegetarian saying, “I realized that we as human beings consumed a lot of unhealthy things that tends to come back to haunt us when we get up in age.” As he grew into a man, his decision proved worthwhile enough for him to remain as such. Bellazer says of his family, “I am considered a peacemaker. I am highly esteemed and very well respected.” His grandmother, with whom he has always had a special connection, tenderly nurtured Bellazer’s freedom of expression. He warmly refers to his grandmother’s affection for him as the best thing God ever did for him. In an attempt to search for a new life and environment, Bellazer relocated to Roswell, Georgia in 1997 where he lived with his uncle. In a year he saw that he had to return b...Expand for more