American singer/songwriter Coleridge Gardner Tillman (aka Sebastian Kole) spent his early career writing hit songs for others before becoming a vocalist in his own right. Tillman was born in 1989 into a religious family in Birmingham, Alabama. During his early years he attended church regularly, where he joined the choir and learned the piano from his grandmother, who played the organ during services. While attending elementary school he also picked up the tuba; shortly afterward -- at age 13 -- he began rapping and writing songs. By the time he was attending the University of...