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DeVante Swing
American record producer, singer, and rapper (born 1969)
Donald Earle DeGrate Jr. (born September 29, 1969), better known by his stage name DeVanté Swing, is an American record producer, singer, songwriter and rapper.
He is best known as the main songwriter and producer of the R&B group Jodeci, which includes his younger brother Dalvin “Mr.
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Dalvin” DeGrate.[1] DeVante Swing also created Swing Mob, which consisted of various artists he discovered and mentored, such as Missy Elliott, Timbaland, Magoo, Ginuwine, Static Major with Playa, Darryl Pearson, Tweet, Jimmy Douglass, Stevie J, and Chad "Dr.
Ceuss" Elliott among others.
Career
At age 16, DeVanté Swing traveled to Minneapolis, hoping to visit Paisley Park in order to audition for Prince.[2][3] Swing would later say, "I was up at Paisley Park every day begging for a job, asking people to listen to my tape.
The receptionist kept saying she couldn't help me".[4]