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Artist
Luke Wiley
12+ albums
hip hoprapHip-Hop
about
Luke was legally born with the name Christopher R. James, Jr. In Littleton, Colorado on March 21st of 1996. However, his mother petitioned for a legal name change shortly after leaving her abusive husband (Luke's father). Luke's mom remarried a man whose last name was "Wiley." She always called him "Luke" as a nickname, and she didn't want to change his name to something completely unrelated to his biological father, so he was renamed, "Christian Luke Wiley." His mother's new husband was a stepfather figure to Luke for a few years afterwards, but ultimately the marriage ended in a divorce. A short while later, Luke finally had the opportunity to meet his biological father, Chris, in 2004. Luke remembers this day like it was yesterday. Luke was 8 years old, and Chris said he wanted to meet him. Sadly, Chris proceeded to let Luke know that he would be moving soon, so he bought Luke a few CD's as a gift; one was Eminem's "The Eminem Show," and the other was 50 Cent's "Get Rich or Die Trying." They drove around for a bit while listening to the CD's, and briefly chatted o get acquainted. The visitation ended poorly, when Luke's mother and Chris got in an argument. This would be the first and last time that Luke would ever see his biological father. Ironically, it was those gifts from his "father" that would ultimately light a passionate fire for hip hop music, and forever shape his future. Since then, Luke has always been fascinated by the hip hop culture; break dancing, graffiti,
