Eric Joseph was born in Port-de-Paix, Haiti on August 20, 1959 to Carmelita Joseph and Emile Gedeus. He was the sixth child of fourteen. He attended Saint Benoit School. Eric traveled to the United States in 1981 and he returned to Haiti in 1991. After 1 year in Haiti he moved back to the United States. In 2003 he was diagnosed with chronic renal failure. He suffered for about 13 years with that disease. Eric leaves behind three children, Ericson Joseph, Brian Joseph and Brandon Joseph; his mother: Carmelita Joseph; mothers of his children: Nelcie Dulcio, Loucie, and Barbara