He grew up in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana, and attended McDonogh Senior High School where he played piccolo and served as drum major for the band.

Simultaneously in 1997 and 1998, he was also the daily announcer for the late night talk show, VIBE, starring Chris Spencer and later, comedian Sinbad.

Sturgis was interviewed by fashion editor Antoine Von Boozier exclusively for Floss Magazine[permanent dead link‍].

Video game titles include Shout About Music, True Crime: New York City, Evil Dead, Spider-Man 2 and Red Faction.

In February 2009, he worked on Blokhedz animated web series on Missiong.com and did the voice of Biskit, the leader of the biker gang Wild Dawgs.