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Expert In Urban Demographics & Trends
Antong “Bruse Wane” Lucky is the Ceo and co-founder of WMRM (We
Make Real Music) Inc., and independent record label based in Dallas,
Texas. Known for its aggressive marketing approach and emphasis on real
music WMRM seeks to change the cultural conversation through music.
Antong is also the former Program Director for Vision Regeneration
(VRInc.) Gang Intervention and Prevention Services for the Dallas
County Juvenile Department, an organization credited for significantly reducing gang
membership amongst teens in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Lucky, founder and former gang leader
of the Bloods in Dallas is now serving the community by developing grassroots
partnerships throughout the city of Dallas to properly inform teens about making the right
decisions in life. Mr. Lucky is now charged with focusing on decreasing crime and
violence in the City of Dallas.
Mr. Lucky has first hand experience in working towards community building and self-
empowerment. While serving four years in prison, Mr. Lucky united the notorious rival
gangs, the “bloods” and the “crips”. Mr. Lucky also created a non-profit program in
prison to assist young people in getting out of gangs. After release from prison in 2000,
Mr. Lucky joined Vision Regeneration, an organization that does work in Dallas that is
vital to the health of the entire community because it seeks to end the cycle of violence
that claims so many young lives each year. Mr. Lucky used his “OG” (Original
Gangster) status to successfully assist Vision Regeneration in convincing 170 active gang
members to sign a truce and end violence in the South Dallas area. Antong, has helped
create jobs and assist with the hiring process of over 300 men and women with
innovative and creative partnerships with various agencies throughout the Dallas Ft.-
Worth area.
Through mentoring students and educating parents, Mr. Lucky has successfully decreased
school violence, proven record of accelerated attendance and most importantly increased
standardized test scores in area known schools. From 2000 to present dates, Mr. Lucky
has served on the Board of Directors for the prominent, Southfair Community
Development Corporation in Dallas, an organization that seeks to improve the quality of
life for the residents in South Dallas. Mr. Lucky focused on the promotion of
neighborhood revitalization, primarily through the development of affordable housing,
economic development and the renewal of needed support services. Mr. Lucky serves on
the Board of Directors for Frazier Revitalization Inc., which is responsible for millions of
dollars in investments to the underserved Frazier neighborhood. Antong currently sits on
the board of Miles of Freedom, a non-profit created by exoneree Richard Miles to assist
men and women getting out of prison. Mr. Lucky has traveled from state to state
delivering his message of change for young people. He was part of a special delegation
of civic leaders to go to St. Petersburg, Russia to inform their government of new
solutions to the crime issues facing their youth. Mr. Lucky prides himself on change,
knowing that sharing his personal testimony could perhaps lead many in the right
direction.
Antong “Bruse Wane” Lucky
We Make Real Music Inc
Biography

2. Mr. Lucky was awarded Mayor of the Day for Outstanding Community Work in 2001;
received the Max Goldblatt Community Service Award and Distinguished Leadership
Award from El Centro Community College in 2002. In 2003, Antong flew to Chicago,
Illinois and completed his formal organizing training from The Midwest Academy,
“Organizing for Social Change”. In spring of 2006, Antong completed The SMU
Entrepreneur Course at SMU Cox School of Business. In 2007, Antong Lucky was
nominated to be Texan of the Year by an anonymous Dallas Morning News editor. Also
in 2007, Mr. Lucky received the coveted “Let Justice Roll like a River” award from
Williams Institute. In recent years, Mr. Lucky noticed the major impact music has on
society, he took his passion for change to the next level by creating his very own record
label WMRM Inc., in an effort to positively reach the youth through music. In 2012, Mr.
Lucky went into the Bail Bonds business as a Bails Bondsmen agent and is one of the
most respected businessmen in the South Dallas community.
“An important key to healing communities across the Nation and solving the issue of
crime is to find non-traditional solutions that work along with priming the entrepreneur
spirit inside, and what we’ve seen in the work we done is when you take men and women
whom the youth respect and have walked in their shoes but have changed their lives
dramatically, they serve as an important ingredient to restoring this Nation. These men
and women have been look upon as the problem and thus written off by society but I’m
telling you they are and should be looked at as part of the solution their success is
interwoven into Americas success,” Antong Lucky.
Mr. Lucky currently resides in Dallas and have 3 wonderful children.
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