Born on April 16th, 1987 in Detroit, Michigan, Matthew "Crom Royale" Cromwell is the youngest son of a fashion photographer and a seamstress who began rapping at the age of 11 when he created a crudely-recorded demo tape on a floppy disk.

As a freshman in high school, Crom Royale participated in daily freestyle battles during lunchtime, using it as an opportunity to poke fun at anybody who teased him about his multi-racial ethnicity (he's English, Italian, and African-American but somehow looks like a Mexican).

Since graduating high school in 2005, Crom Royale has recorded and performed with some of Detroit's most talented artists, including Guilty Simpson from Stones Throw Records and Witt & Pep -- the masterminds behind Obie Trice's "Cry Now" and D12's "How Come".

In 2011, Crom Royale released his debut solo album entitled The Matthew Cromwell EP which is being distributed online. Currently, he's studying to receive a Bachelor's Degree in Creative Writing for Entertainment from Full Sail University; pursuing another life-long dream of becoming a novelist and screenwriter. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.