William Wright alias, artist name Topazz, was born in Nashville Tennessee, a 4th of February as the 8th of 9 brothers and sisters. Williams love for music shows at the young age of 13 when William and 4 other friends, he grew up with , started a group call the junior temptations. At that time he used to study the voices of Melvin Franklin, Larry Gram, Issec Hayes, Lou Rawels and Barry White. This music experience was short since William was very sportive.