Cloudy Wingz - "Ballin"
William Michael Clark (born January 26th, 1989), age 27,
known professionally as Cloudy Wingz, is
a Haitian-American rapper, singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. Cloudy was
born in the slums of Port au Prince, Haiti and adopted into America at 3 years
of age after most of his biological family was either murdered or died from
natural disasters and natural causes. He first lived in St. Paul, Minnesota and
then in the rough city of Indianapolis, Indiana where he grew up.
One things
for sure, music has always been a part of Cloudy’s life. His adoption father
was into classic rock and country while his adoption mother was more into soft
rock and classical music. Both his adoption parents were into concerts,
theatrical plays, operas, and orchestras. His adoption mother, Anne B.
O’Connor-Clark, who divorced his adoption father due to mental and physical
abuse, was a single mother who worked as a department store manager for most of
Cloudy’s childhood until eventually going back to college and getting a degree as
a Registered Nurse.
As a child and teenager Cloudy was in and out of juvenile
detention centers, group homes, therapeutic care centers, military themed boot
camps, and psychiatric offices due to his violent outbursts and erratic
behavior. In his childhood home, tough love was believed to build a good work
ethic, and his mom wasn’t wealthy so clothing and things that weren’t needed
were seldom bought after the age of ten. Cloudy started stealing and selling
candy out of his locker while attending Fall Creek Valley Middle School in
order to get what he wanted. That eventually turned into robbery and selling
drugs. Cloudy played a variety of sports growing up. Taekwondo, Golf,
Basketball, Baseball, Track, Cross country, Tennis, Swimming, and Soccer to
name a few, but Football seemed to stick with him. He played in High school
with a chance at a state championship until he got into a fistfight with one of
his coaches and was caught smoking and selling marijuana on school grounds. When
being expelled from multiple high schools became the norm, Cloudy dropped out
in the tenth grade and received his G. E. D. while incarcerated at a program
for troubled teens. He initially started taking music seriously around the age
of 16, but after getting into some serious legal troubles, music was put on
hold. His oldest son, Brayden Maddox Arnold’s birth on January 29th
2008, while Cloudy was serving time in a state penitentiary, changed his
outlook on life. Or so he thought.
Wanting to stick around and have the relationship
with his son that he didn’t have with his father, Cloudy opened up a clothing
store called Leonce once he was released from prison. When the store was shut
down a year later, he went back to selling drugs from state-to-state and
enforcing for fellow drug dealers and business men, which led him to be
arrested on federal weapons charges. The case was later dismissed due to
illegal search and seizure. After facing life in a federal penitentiary, Cloudy
wanted again to change his ways.
He moved from Indiana to start a new life in
New Mexico with a long lost Haitian family member. This time around he was back
to making music and doing shows. When unfortunate situations caused him to become
homeless and living in his car, he went back to the only thing he knew would
change his situation fast, selling drugs. Cloudy was sentenced to two years and
six months of probation for an incident that caused him to be charged with one
count of murder, three counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon
causing great bodily harm, and three counts of aggravated assault, after
shooting four people who attempted to rob him of his drugs in an Olive Garden
parking lot. The murder charge was later dismissed due to lack of evidence and
a plea deal was signed.
Cloudy then left the street life for good in order to
invest in different business ventures and focus on his music career. Which
eventually led him to sign with Tama Industries, whom he is currently signed
with.
Twitter: @Cloudy_Wingz
Facebook: OfficialCloudyWingz
Email: williamclark1207@gmail.com
Phone number: 3179890085
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