Rap artist, Producer, and Song Writer Timothy Russell AKA Guilla is an artist known for his esoteric, often sagacious and juxtaposing style and extreme emphasis on percussion. His travels at a young age reflect a style influenced by an array of sounds and genre’s.

Guilla was raised in a household where his father - a DJ from New York - and Mother - an Opera Singer from England - traveled avidly due to his father’s military career. Guilla was born in Japan, but journeyed to central California, England, Northern California, Virginia, and eventually, Texas. It was during his time in Virginia that he began to realize his dream as a musician.

Virginia has produced such Hip-Hop and R&B legends as The Neptunes, Timberland & Missy Elliot, which Guilla credits as some of his favorite artists. Spending much time in Virginia Beach on a scholarship at Virginia Wesleyan College, he began to develop his musical talents inspired by the rich musical culture of the Old Dominion State. Although he claims his biggest production influence is the Icelandic artist known as Björk. After losing a tennis scholarship in 2008 due to an injury, he relocated to the University of Houston to focus on his Psychology degree.

It was in Houston Texas that Guilla started producing. After establishing his dexterity in production, Guilla met with an underground artist by the name of Paco Dandada. During a recording session, Dandada encouraged Guilla to write a verse to a song that was being recorded. It was during this same recording session that Guilla wrote his first 16 bars and was invariably introduced to his favorite medium, rapping.

Guilla is an avid gamer and anime fan - a facet often reflected in his music from the surrealism, to the often operatic soundtracks of many anime productions. It's something that real inspires him, the creative worlds and universes create a landscape for his ideas to flow.

After recording 3 projects: "FYI Volume One," "The Failure," and "Super Novas" (all unreleased do to dissatisfaction of the final Product) Guilla signed to Cloudopolis Entertainment and began to receive the guidance and structure he needed to released his first single "Gravity" in 2013. Accompanied by a close friend and fellow artist from Houston, Kenno Supreme.

After helping to start Cloudopolis Entertainment Guilla released his first album. Self-titled, It helps to rocket him into the local Houston spotlight. Guilla would go on to play local festivals such as Summer Fest, Whatever fest and Beer fest, as well as open for many national touring acts. As well as signing more artists to Cloudopolis.

After the success of his debut self-titled album, Guilla began work on his next project. Being in the position of having a broken computer, he was pushed to the limits of creativity when creating, "Rap, Trap, and Drums." Which was released with great success gaining him attention around the world. Sugarhill Studios selected him as one of the up incoming artist to put on their, "Next Wave: Compilation." Working with Audio Engineer Josh Applebee, they brought in Say Girl Say for the vocals to create "Supa Novas."

Guilla is currently working on his productions with Sugarhill Studios and Home Schooled Studios and working on two EPs. One with iLL Faded and another solo. Both planned to be released in the spring.