Ellis Production
Early Life
Marlon Andrew Ellis professionally known as Ellis Production is a Jamaican-born American music producer, videographer, and photographer. Ellis was born in Jamaica and raised in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Due to his father being in the Jamaican army Ellis would spend his early years growing up on a military base with his parents. Ellis's mother and father would eventually divorce. Ellis's mother would seek a better life for her and Ellis, so she migrated to North America, while Ellis stayed in Jamaica with his family. Despite living with family his living arrangements were not always stable; he went from relative to relative and eventually ended up living with his grandmother. Once Ellis moved to America, much like how it was for him in Jamaica, he would be bullied because he was smaller, a loner, and different from his peers. Growing up with his grandmother, he was physically abused for much of his youth by both his grandmother and grandfather. During the summers, he would fly by air from Jamaica to America to visit his mother, who was residing in Florida. In 2006, Ellis's mother got married and would have another child. Ellis would leave Jamaica after this and reside in America permanently.
Education
Marlon Ellis would attend Oriole elementary school in North Fort Lauderdale. He would be held back in the 4th grade due to not being motivated. Ellis would transfer from Oriole elementary to Cypress Elementary in Pompano Beach, Florida to finish out his elementary school term. He would attend The Abundant Life Christian Academy for middle school. Ellis would be involved in multiple extracurricular activities such as basketball, soccer, track & field, and art competitions. Ellis would attend J.P. Travella high school. Ellis would attend Full Sail University online; his major was in audio engineering. He would eventually drop out of Full Sail due to his commitment to the United States Armed Forces. Ellis is currently enrolled in online courses for his degree in business administration at American Military University.
Military service
Ellis would join the United States Armed Forces and entered boot camp on July 25, 2016, on Parris Island, South Carolina. His training includes such as first aid, land navigation, marksmanship, physical fitness, and self-defense. Ellis would graduate as a Private First Class (PFC). Once he graduated from boot camp, he went through Marine Combat Training (MCT) in Camp Geiger, North Carolina. He would learn how to be a basic rifleman in a combat environment. After BootCamp and training, he would go on to learn his military occupation specialty (MOS). Ellis would enroll in personnel administration school at Camp Johnson to learn how to become an administrative specialist. Once Ellis completed schooling, he received orders to Camp Lejeune where he was assigned to the unit Combat Logistics Battalion 6 (CLB-6). During that time with CLB-6 he was apart of the color guard, helicopter support team (HST), tactical combat casualty care (TCCC), combat operations center (COC), Non-Lethal Weapons training (NLW), Community Relations, Defense Travel System, and went on 2 deployments with the unit. Ellis would rise in rank and eventually reach the rank of Sergeant. He was honorably discharged.
Awards and accommodations:
-the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal
-National Defense Service Medal
-Global War On Terrorism Service Medal
-Sea Service Deployment Ribbon
-Letter Of Appreciation
-Expert Rifle Qualification Badge
-Sharpshooter Pistol Qualifications Badge
Career
Marlon Ellis would get his start in music by joining his church's choir as well as the praise and worship team. Eventually, this would lead him to play piano for church, sometimes Bass and Drums the church requested; Though he didn't know how to read music; he quickly adapted and became adept at music composition reading. His journey into music production would start during his middle school years as he would make beats on an old Casio Keyboard that his mother got for him. He would discover the music production software Fl studio and would transition to using that primarily for his beatmaking.
Ellis credits Young Chop, Zaytoven, Travis Scott, Metro Booming & London on The Track as his inspirations for music production to the point he would emulate their styles in his own beat creation process. Once he became comfortable with music production he would focus on audio engineering and make money recording local artists in his area. In the 11th grade, Ellis would connect with two artists named Solo Island and Mondell; Ellis credits them with pushing him to continue making music in his early years.
Once Ellis graduated from high schoolhe would enlist into the U.S Marine Corps but would still remain in contact with Solo Island and Mondell. During Ellis's time in the Marines, he and Mondell released many hits on SoundCloud, such as "Mellow", "Pay the Price", "Can’t Wait" & "Slaps". Once he came back to the U.S from his first deployment, he would receive time off for R&R and drive down to Georgia for a baby shower close friend of his was having. Ellis would connect with Solo Island while in Georgia, and record their biggest single "Speedin". "Speedin" would become Solo’s biggest hit at that time.
Once Ellis would be honorably discharged from the Marines he would start working in the field of videography. During this time he would also collaborate with Benga Tribe to create the song "Bust It Wide Open". Ellis would also start a long-distance relationship with his now-wife whom he was actually deployed with in the beginning of their relationship. He would help his wife run her youtube channel and handle Shooting and editng her content.
Ellis would eventually partner with an artist named Gr8ness, to make many different projects with their most notable one being "SIH888". He is now currently signed to Bentley Records as one of their in-house producers and has contributed to many major hits on the independent label.
