Interview with Ceddy King: Master Writer, Artist, Author, Poet, and Publisher
Cedric Daniel Simmons better known as Ceddy King is a master writer, artist, author, poet, and publisher. As a writer and author he has written and self published seven poetry books, and produced and recorded an audio book/spoken word album.
Ceddy is the President and CEO of his own company Real Will Publishing and a Co-owner of MOB (Most Official Black) Empire Inc. He is also an avid reader and a videographer.
Biography
Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, Ceddy was born April 9th 1990. He grew up about 20 minutes from the city of New Orleans in Harvey, Louisiana. Ceddy completed and graduated from John Ehret High School in Marrero, La in 2010.
During his junior high school years is when he began to grow real interest in poetry and music. His first few poems where about his first girlfriend and love. His influences include Tupac Shakur, Bob Marley, Lauryn Hill, & Michael Jackson to name a few. At the age of 19 he recorded along side two of his childhood friends and put together a body of music entitled “III Kings”. Ceddy's first solo musical release was a mixtape called "Life Is A Movie" which dropped on Halloween of 2011. While music was not his only endeavor, he became a student of Delgado Community College in the fall of 2012, with the major of Business & Management.
Throughout his college days Ceddy began to read and write more frequently. Between 2012 and 2014, he started to switch his focus from a career in music to a career in writing. More specifically poetry. One of the reasons for this change was to take a different approach to writing lyrics and recording them. In the spring of 2014 Ceddy put his pen to the page and wrote his first book of poetry. It took him 9 days to complete the writing of the book including the contents, poems, introduction, etc. By him having some knowledge of business and management he formed his own company Real Will Publishing to self publish his own material. In November of 2014 “The Prelude” book of poetry was officially released through Real Will Publishing. It consisted of 15 original poems written by Ceddy King. The Prelude was put out as a physical book and as an EBook.
In the beginning of 2015 Ceddy enrolled in Real Estate school at Donaldson Educational Services. Ceddy completed his courses and officially became a licensed real estate salesperson in the state of Louisiana. He joined Keller Williams Realty shortly thereafter. In June of that same year Ceddy released his second self published book of poetry entitled “Koda”. The themes expressed in “Koda” range from creating, growth, dealing with individualism, and new beginnings. The fall of 2015 was a difficult period for Ceddy as his family, as he experienced the passing of his mother. It was a rough time and still is for him, but he is a strong willed and creative person, so naturally he expresses his pain, anger, joy, and laughter through his writings and recordings.
Ceddy King is a young entrepreneur with diverse talent. May 6, 2016 Ceddy released his first album/audio book “The Prelude”. In January 2017 he released 2 new books of poetry in e book format only, “Direction” and “A+ 100”. Also in February, Ceddy released another Ebook of poetry called “Novelty.” Ceddy is also involved in community activity and philanthropy. Ceddy has helped organize school supply giveaways for children, put together food supply and clothing giveaways for the homeless, and has done community clean ups in Louisiana with the other members of the MOB (Most Official Black) Empire. Ceddy continues to write, read, and record on a consistent basis and plans to put out more projects and be apart of much more in the future.
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