User:Roland Garrett

Roland Garrett. Was born in Boston Massachusetts.January 30,1964 at Boston Medical.He grew up in the Columbia Point housing project in Dorchester Massachusetts. He went to School at the John W. McCormack. Roland mother name is Barbara Ann Garrett. Father Frank Garrett.Both parents were African-American. Roland has one brother Frank and five sisters: Barbara , Janice, Nadine, Denice, and Dorea. Roland is also a personal friend of Professor Theodore Postol at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Postol also tutor's Roland teaching him about life skills,technology,and computer science.Roland first started going to the Massachusetts Institue of Technology in 1976 to hang out with the students and to get out of the Project .Over the years the Physic Professor, has develop a special friendship with Roland . Theodore Postol has created a special internet account for Roland with Earthlink. Before meeting Theodore Postol, Roland was arrested for Armed Robberies in Boston and Cambridge Massachusetts, and sentence to 15 to 20 years. He was incarcerated from January 17,1989 until February 17,2001. While incarcerated he worked in the School Department at MCI-Cedar Junction, where he received his GED, and learned how to write and read Arabic. During his incarceration he learned about the death of his brother, mother, and father. Roland had a difficult incarceration. He had several fights with other prisoners, and he was charged with assualts upon Correction Officers. Despite his difficult incarceration. 4 months after his released he received a job working at the Home Depot and he quickly became the Store's Wellness Representative. He created Fruit Fridays, a program in which he put fruits in the employees breakroom on Fridays. He got students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to come to the Home Depot and give employees massages during breaks. He got the City of Boston to bring the City,s Family-med Mobile-van to park in front of the Home Depot to provide medical services to employees, customers, and the homeless. He is a weekly volunteer. He volunteers at the AFSC, American Friends Service Committee in Cambridge Massachusetts.He has volunteer his computer skills he learned from MIT to edit the audio for the website armeniandrama.org bring the Armenian voice to the world stage throught the arts and stage. Roland is the first relative of Bobby Brown who was married to singer Whitney Houston. Roland lived with the couple in their Atlanta Manson,while they recorded Being Bobby Brown that appeared on the Bravo Network. Roland worked production for B2 Entertainment in Atlanta and Boston. Roland develop a personal friendship the Producer of the show, Tracy Baker Simmons of B2 Entertainment. Roland got his start in the entertainment indusrty with Quincy Jones III also known as QD3. Roland is also a personal friend of QD3. QD3 is the trademark of Quincy Jones III.Roland first started working with Quincy Jones III in 1986. QD3 and Roland's worked as a team. QD3 made the beats, and Roland wrote the lyrics. Roland who went by the name MC Supreme travel to New York to produce the project. After traveling back and forth from Boston to New York, Roland final received a deal at Fresh Records in New York. Roland could not convince his agent Dara at Fresh Records to give him and QD3 the 100,000.00 to complete the album called "On Your Knees". Peggy Lipton,QD3 mother a experience entertainer, seeing Roland struggling in New York with his project offered to help him out. Roland decline the help.His youth and inexperince got the best of him. Fresh Records Audio and Recording Department decided to invest the budget in KRS of Boogie Down Production. Roland has used his special intenet account with Earthlink wisely to develop virtual communication and online friendships with a long list of Celebrities and Entertainers which include: Micheal Jackson, Janet Jackson, Latoya Jackson, Joe Jackson, Madonna, Fat Joe, Spike Lee, Paula Abdul, Jay Z, Patty Labelle, The Pointer Sisters, Darth Vader, Steve-O, John Nelson, Fiona Apple, Will and Jada Smith, Al B Sure, Chuck D., Flavor Flav, Gina Hira, U2, Predator, Tori Amos, Hilary Duff, Paris Hilton, Chewbacca, Master P., Ruby James, Metallica, Ludacris, Daine Krall, Fabolous, DMX, Snoop Dogg, Steve Byrne, Beastie Boys, Pauly Shore, Young Buck, 50 Cents, Jill Scott, Eric Clapton, Dr.Dre, Molly Thomas, AVPR, Twista, P.Diddy, Trick Daddy, R.Kelly, Alicia Keys, Frank Zappa, Ruth Collins, Courtney Love, Amy Grant, Kelly Osborne, David Bowie, Erykah Badu, Deborah Cox, Johnny Cash, Amy Winehouse, Faith Evans, Jody Whatley, Ciara, Neil Young, and other entertainers. Roland has used his special internet account productively, and he is silently using his Blackberry to change the face of producing and music distribution on the internet.