Sturgis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is the second oldest son of four born to Abraham and Sarah Sturgis. He grew up in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana, and attended McDonogh Senior High School where he played piccolo and served as drum major for the band.
In addition to voice overs, Sturgis appeared as an antagonist in two of Tyler Perry"s movies, Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Daddy"s Little Girls, as well as the 2007 movie Pride, starring Terrence Howard, and co-stars in the independent feature directed by Cedric the Entertainer, Chicago Pulaski Jones. Sturgis is also known by the rap moniker of Illuminati, having successfully promoted a few albums on iTunes. He has also landed television roles in his early career such as a recurring character by the name of Caz in the General Hospital spin-off, Portuguese Charles, as well as smaller roles on The District, New York City Police Department Blue, Malcolm and Eddie and Girlfriends.
In the mid 1990s, he began booking voice over jobs in commercials and trailers.
He served as the voice of the Monday night (and later Tuesday night) lineup on the now defunct Universitas Pembangunan Nasional network, promoting such shows as The Parkers, Moesha, Half & Half, Girlfriends, The Hughleys and many others Simultaneously in 1997 and 1998, he was also the daily announcer for the late night talk show, VIBE, starring Chris Spencer and later, comedian Sinbad.
Sturgis never had a contract for either job stating that he would just "keep coming everyday until they tell me to stop." This lasted for the duration of the network and the talk show respectively. Sturgis graced the cover of Hollywood Reporter in 2002 in celebration of his voice over efforts.
In addition to promos for network television, he also did several Hollywood movie trailers such as Bones, The Wood, Crossroads, Two Can Play That Game, and The Others.
He played several animated roles landing himself in cartoons, feature films and in video games. A partial list includes, Static Shock, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Scooby Doo and The Cyber Chase, Batman Beyond, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and The Fairly OddParents: Wishology. Video game titles include Shout About Music, True Crime, Evil Dead, Spider-Manitoba 2, and Red Faction.
His role in "Batman: The Brave and the Bold" as the District of Columbia Comics anti-hero "Bronze Tiger" was also reprised in the PlayStation Vita and Nintendo 3DS video game "Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate".
In February 2009 he worked on Blokhedz animated web series on Missiong.com and did the voice of Biskit, the leader of the biker gang Wild Dawgs.
