Native of Jamaica Markland Morley Morris was born in St.Elizabeth Goshen he is the last child of seven.At a tender age of twelve Markland found his love for music when his mother bought him a guitar as a birthday gift. Life was not all about dancing, and music as his family had it hard financially and moved around until they finally settled.

As a result of this Markland was forced to find a way to make money to have the pleasures and a normal life`of a young youth. He formed a group consisting of four members. Charmskwad which was formed in 2003 they began free-styling with lyrics following popular artist. Markland was the leader of the group which stayed together for five year.The group members gave Markland the name Sthinga because they thought his lyrics were sounding hot.They took Jamaica by surprise with the song "Gal Gwan" which stayed on the top ten charts for weeks. This gave him the opportunity to perform all over Jamaica doing stage shows, talent shows, school parties