Disciple (D.I.)

Born Marc Auguste on October 9th 1982 in Port-A-Prince, Haiti, Disciple (D.I) grew up in church and was raised in a Christian environment. Most of his family members knew Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, but Marc spent most of his life questioning if there really was a God. At the age of three, Marc and his family moved from Haiti and came to the United States of America. His mother worked as a secretary and was also a women's seamstress at the time. Marc's father was a DJ of traditional Haitian music and worked full time as a taxi driver. Together, they provided a stable environment for him and his younger sister Gesphania to grow up in. Marc spent most of his childhood years going to school and having fun. He was also in church with the rest of his family almost every Sunday. Even though he grew up in church, he never really had a real relationship with Jesus Christ as a child. Marc has been into music for as long as he can remember. It didn't matter what kind of music it was, music fascinated him. He quickly developed a talent for percussion and by the age of 10 he was playing the drums. That same year, he was introduced to and fell in love with rap music. He loved rap music so much that he would buy entire albums and memorize them, from beginning to end. By the age of 14, Marc was going to Boston Latin School, one of the top middle/high schools in the country. The school's way of teaching was more than what Marc was used to and as a result, he gave up on school. He stopped doing his work and turned to the street. Half the time, he wasn't even in school that year. It was that same year that Marc went to a youth retreat in New Hampshire and accepted Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior. Two weeks after his encounter with Christ, he prayed for a unique gift that would allow him to minister to others. The next day Marc wrote his first verse and realized that it was rapping. His cousin and best friend Jean Daniel was a Christian rapper at the time so Marc told him about his new found desire to preach the Gospel through rap music. When Jean heard Marc rhyme for the first time, he was so impressed that he allowed Marc to rap at some events that he had coming up. The first time that Marc rapped on stage God used him to minister and the crowd loved it and that same night Jean gave him his stage name: Disciple (the D.I. part came later). Ever since, Marc has been honing his skills through prayer, practice and plenty of ministry opportunities.