Mikel Knight The Maverick of Music Row! In the beginning... Sometimes in life things are taken away from us, and all we have left are hopes and dreams. And then there are times when having hope and a dream feels like a luxury—just out of reach and reserved for a special group of people. It takes a strong and uniquely wired type of person to rise from obscurity and create their own path that is their inevitable road to success. For one man, humble beginnings is too grandiose a phrase to describe the life from where Mikel Knight emerged.