Chris Brown (born May 5, 1989 in Tappahannock, Virginia, actually Christopher Maurice Brown) is an American hip-hop, contemporary R & B and pop singer, songwriter, dancer, actor and rapper. He also appears occasionally as a director of music videos and music producer in appearance.
Recognition of acquired it in 2005 for his debut single It Run!, Which achieved a ranking in the USA. Meanwhile, Brown has released four albums, to be published in June 2012 under the name of Fortune, a fifth. Besides being a musician, he was seen even in some movies and TV shows.
Chris Brown was on 5 May 1989 in the small town of Tappahannock in the U.S. state of Virginia, the son of Joyce Hawkins, a former director of a children's day care, and Clinton Brown, a correctional officer of a local prison, was born. He also has an older sister named Lytrell Bundy, who works in a bank. Left [1] His parents divorced when Brown was six years old. [2] The musician later said in an interview that he grew up with violence. The new boyfriend of his mother had been violent towards her, making him as a child had "horrified". [3]
Brown said in various interviews that he grew up with the music of Michael Jackson, Anita Baker, Stevie Wonder and Sam Cooke, he also described the singer Usher as inspiration. [4] [5]
By the spring of 2005 he visited the Essex High School in his hometown, then he started taking private lessons.
From late 2007 to February 2009, Brown have a relationship with the Caribbean pop star Rihanna. In March 2011 it was announced that Brown is in a relationship with model Karrueche Tran located. [6]
From late 2007 to February 2009 was romantically involved with singer Chris Brown, Rihanna. The relationship ended in a violent confrontation after the joint visit to a pre-Grammy party in February 2009. A little later it became known that to have Chris Brown on that evening on suspicion of culpable threat uttered against his friend had been arrested. [7]
On 5 March Brown was charged with assault and threat. [8] images that showed Rihanna with scrapes and bruises on his face, and came immediately after the incident went around the world. [9]
The end of May it was announced that Rihanna has been summoned by the court order on 22 June to make their statement on the deed. During the day, negotiating a deal with Brown-known by the judge in charge and so escaped injury guilty of a prison sentence.
He was sentenced to five years imprisonment on probation, and he had to attend an anti-aggression program and serve 190 hours of community service. In addition, he was allowed to hold until further notice no contact with his ex-girlfriend and her approach to a maximum of 45 meters (9 meters at public events). Rihanna was then communicated to the verdict in the courtroom. She shared with later through her lawyer that she thought the punishment is just and fair. [10] [11]
After the incident, Rihanna took some time from the public and gave very few interviews. Only after publication of her fourth studio album, Rated R, they commented on the incident at that time. In a tell-all interview, which on 5 November was aired on American television, they confirmed the rumor that a fight broke out between them, as they have a text message from his ex-girlfriend read it. Brown had lied to her about this before, and she had caught him. As a result, he freaked out and became violent. [12]
In December 2010 it was announced that Brown has dealt with his anti-aggression program successfully. [13]
Brown in 2002, discovered at the age of 13, at the gas station his father's local music producer named Hitmission Records, who were on the lookout for talent. [14] Lamont Fleming, Hitmission belonged Records, organized singing lessons for Brown, also helped the team when creating demo recordings and cultivated contacts in New York City to get a record deal.
About Tina Davis, the then senior A & R of Def Jam Recordings, Brown finally managed to meet with the then president of the record label, Antonio Reid. This gave him the same day to a contract. [15] The negotiations lasted for two months until Tina Davis eventually lost due to a merger, their jobs. They then hired Brown as manager and Davis began the singer using video recordings with various labels such as Jive Records, J Records and Warner Bros. Records to present to reach an agreement. [16]
Finally decided Brown for Jive Records , where he was in December 2004 signed a recording contract. [17] Brown, who was then 15 years old, later said in an interview that he had chosen for this label, since it already had great success with younger musicians such as Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake had been found and have also both very much power in the field of pop music as well as longevity of the careers of the test. [17]
After Brown had signed his 2004 contract with Jive Records, he began in February 2005 with the recording of his debut album. Until May so about 50 songs were recorded, of which 14 were taken to the track list for his first studio album. As a supplement under the name "Thank You" was a thank you to find, which was also his manager Tina Davis was involved. Some songs of his album, the singer also acted as a songwriter. The production of the CD took less than eight weeks. [18]
On 9 August 2005 the first publication of Brown: Run It The song, collaborated with rapper Juelz Santana reached immediately topped the Billboard Hot 100 Stayed there five weeks and made Brown the first male artist since Montell Jordan (1995), his debut single, was placed at number one on U.S. charts. [19]
The song also rose up to fifth position in Germany and Second place in the United Kingdom, which is in both countries, his most successful single. On 29 November 2005 was followed by his first studio album, which was published under his name, Chris Brown and reached number two on Billboard's 200th In large parts of Europe, the album is not in the top ten one of the charts in Germany, it placed only to rank 31st At the Grammy Awards 2007, the album in the category "Best Contemporary R & B Album" was nominated, but the award went to the CD B'Day singer Beyonce Knowles.
On 13 December 2005 was followed by Brown's second single, Yo (Excuse Me Miss), which lagged behind the international success of his very first song, but still finished seventh in the USA reached. The music video which was filmed in support of the title, received a nomination at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards.
In April, August and November 2006, coupled to three other songs from the album Gimme That, Say Goodbye and Poppin ', which, however, missed with the exception of "Say Goodbye" to enter the top ten U.S. singles chart . In August 2006, Brown started his first major tour, Up Close and Personal Tour.
As a result of his commercially successful debut in the music industry, Brown was the honorary awards and nominations at several prestigious music awards to part. He was nominated at the American Music Awards in the category "Favorite Soul / R & B Male Artist" and reached similar even at the MTV Video Music Awards. At the Grammys 2007, he escaped an award in the category "Best New Artist", which at that time was country singer Carrie Underwood. At the BET Awards and the Billboard Music Awards, he won prizes for best new artist, however, he also won the latter award in the category "Artist of the Year" and "Male Artist of the Year".
In April 2007, Brown as the opening act of the concerts held in Australia of The Beyoncé Experience tour. In the summer, he finally started with the shots to create a successor to his debut album. The album, which should bear the original name of "Graduation" was first published on 16 September 2007 (China) and had since 6 November available in the U.S. (Germany: 2 November, rank 91). There it rose to 294 000 units sold at one fourth of the charts.
In advance, the first single from the album was available: Wall to Wall. The song reached position 79 on the Billboard Hot 100 and ranked 59 in Germany. On 18 September 2007 they released their second single: Kiss Kiss (with T-Pain). The song became Brown's second and last up to today's number-one hit in the United States. From 11 December, the title was available with You, who finished second in the U.S. charts and reached No. 33 in Germany.
As a fifth extraction (behind Take You Down) was selected the song Forever, which, like the subsequent publication Superhuman just on Exclusive: The Forever Edition is available, which in turn, on 3 June 2008 was published in the U.S. (Germany: 29 August 2008). The song rose to number two (United States), reaching into the Media Control charts position 20 From December 2007 to February 2008 went to Brown's The UCP Exclusive tour that took him in over 30 cities. All the shows were held in the United States.
2007 and 2008, Brown was a guest musician involved in numerous singles, among other things, he worked with Ludacris, Lil 'Mama and David Banner. His most successful collaboration in 2008 was the song No Air, in which he supported the winner of the sixth season of American Castins show American Idol, Jordin Sparks. The single was successful worldwide and reached tenth place in Germany, third place in the UK and number three in the United States.
For awards achieved in 2008, Brown won several awards, he won four prizes, for example, at the American Music Awards 2008. He won titles in the categories "" Favorite Pop / Rock Male Artist, "" Favorite Soul / Rhythm & Blues Music Artist, "" Artist of the Year "and" Best Male R & B Artist ". At the Teen Choice Awards 2008, he achieved international attention when he received four awards from ten nominations. 2008 and 2009 he was nominated for three Grammy Awards in total, although it increased in the past five nominations since 2007, nor accept any prize.
Already in 2008, Brown started working on his third studio album in which he wanted to try out new musical style. [20] In September, he announced that the recordings are finished for the album to be released in the CD soon. [21] On 29 . September 2009, the first single from the album, I Can Transform Ya. The song had a Lil Wayne and Swizz Beatz with, the latter also took over the production of the title.
The song reached position 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, in Germany, he went not into the charts. From 24 November 2009 was the second single, Crawl, available. You only got to number 53 in the U.S. and was also the last release of the album. This eventually appeared under the name of international graffiti on 7 December, in the United States a day later it was available. It then reached seventh position on the Billboard 200, but it was the first album by Brown, which erlang no place in Germany. Commercially, the CD remained far behind the two predecessors, and sold to this day not even one million units, while Chris Brown Exclusive and can demonstrate both sold over 3,000,000 CDs. From October to December 2009 he went to the Fan Appreciation Tour to promote the album.
At the BET Awards 2010 attracted attention to Brown, when he started during his tribute performance in honor of the late musician Michael Jackson, known to be a model of the singer, on stage, crying. [22]
In 2010, Brown released three mixtapes, which he presented at the first time, his skills as a rapper under test. All mixtapes are for free download on the Internet and have since offered free of charge. On 14 February 2010 he made his first official release in this format: In My Zone (Rhythm & Streets). From the 17th May was a collaborative work with musician Tyga available (Fan of a Fan), which was also released from the singles and deuces are no bullshit. Both songs reached the charts in the United States and reused later for Brown's fourth studio album. On 26 November 2010 he released his third mixtape in 2010, which was called In My Zone 2.
At the Grammy Awards 2011 was the album and the songs Deuces and Take My Time for a total of three awards nominations in the categories "Best R & B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals", "Best Rap / Sung Collaboration" and "Best Contemporary R & B Album "Brown erlang but also now eight nominations for this award no prize.
Already in September 2010 it was announced that Brown has begun work on a sequel to the album, Graffiti. A few days later, the name of the album was known FAME. . This was in the process both an acronym for "Fans Are My Everything" and for "Forgiving All My Enemies" [23] 2010 also appeared the first single from the CD: The song Yeah 3x was published in October and reached the U.S. position 15 . With seventh place in Germany, it is behind Brown's debut single Run It! the most successful artist of the song in the Media Control Charts. In February 2011, appeared the most successful in the USA song of the album: Look At Me Now. The single won sixth place in the Billboard Hot 100, also the rapper Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes appeared as a guest musician in appearance. Then the song was available from March Beautiful People, before a few days later, also in March, the fourth studio album was released. This reached position 39 in Germany and the United Kingdom tenth. In the Billboard 200, the CD debuted at number one one, so it is Brown's first album to achieve this.
Also appeared in March, the fourth single from the album: She Is not You. The song resample the song Human Nature Michael Jackson the musician and reached number 27 in the United States. The title of Next 2 You, in which participated the Canadian singer Justin Bieber was on 24 June 2011 and was released alongside "Yeah 3x" and "Beautiful People" the third single of the album, which could achieve a chart position in Germany (rank 28).
In August, followed by Brown's fourth mixtape under the name Boy was published in Detention. In September, Brown and his F.A.M.E. Tour continues, which began in April with four shows in Australia and since then paused. In December, ended the tour in Dubai, concerts in Germany were not on the program. In addition, since the 13th was September 2011, the sixth and final single from the album available: Wet the Bed The song reached number 77 in the U.S. only. On 18 November 2011 was released the song "Strip" as a single from Brown's mixtape boy in detention, after which she became ranked 37th in the U.S..
2011 Brown was also involved in numerous songs as a guest musician. The best known are probably the singles champion, which is on the second album by British rapper Chipmunk finding and reached number two in the United Kingdom, and the title of International Love musician Pitbull.
2011 Brown was nominated for seven prizes of BET Awards, where he won five. Even at the MTV Video Music Awards he was nominated twice, but he gained no distinction. At the Soul Train Music Awards, he received five nominations at a price. 2012, he was also nominated for three Grammy Awards. This album won his F.A.M.E. in the category "Best R & B album," a prize, the title "Look at Me Now", which was proposed as a "Best Rap Performance" and "Best Rap Song" for an award was not awarded, however. Thus, Brown won his first Grammy nominations to eleven.
In October 2011 it was announced that Brown's record label, Jive Records, which is part of the RCA Music Group was dissolved and all the artists of this label, just like the Arista Records and J Records, automatically receive a contract with RCA Records. These changes took place for structural reasons. [24] [25]
In June 2012, Brown released fifth studio album under the name of Fortune. On 10 February appeared while the song "Turn Up the Music" as first single, which debuted at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and thus behind "Forever", which is ranked 2008 in the first week in ninth, the highest chart entry Browns in the United States represented.
On 17 April they released the song "Sweet Love" as the second single, which since the 10th previously April for the Urban Contemporary radio is available. Also on 17 April appeared the title of "Till I Die" as the third single of the album. In "Till I Die", the rappers Big Sean and Wiz Khalifa appeared as a guest musician in appearance. Previously, on 6 March, a remix of the song "Birthday Cake" was released as the fourth single from Rihanna's sixth studio album, Talk That Talk, in which Brown participated as guest musician. He rose to number 29 of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and moved due to the common past of the two musicians considerable media attention. It was the first collaboration of artists since the conflict in February 2009. Apart from the remix to "Birthday Cake" in February, also an official remix of Brown's first single from his fifth album, celebrated premiere, in which Rihanna was again involved as a guest musician.
2006 went by the name of Christmas in Washington television special on TV, in which Brown was also seen. In 2007 he starred in several TV shows and movies. The documentary Chris Brown: Journey to South Africa, which is also on the bonus DVD of the standard version of his second studio album, Exclusive was present to see, for example in U.S. television.
In addition, the film ran in movie Stomp the Yard, where Brown had taken a smaller role. In the same year he starred in three episodes of the final fourth season of the series The OC. He played the role of "Will Tutt," a new student of the "Harbor School", which for a short time in a relationship with "Kaitlin Cooper" (Willa Holland) is located. He also appeared with 2007 still in the Christmas movie This Christmas. In 2008 he was in the third season of the Disney series The Suite Life and Cody made a guest appearance. After he was seen in the 2010 film Takers in the cinema, followed in April 2012, the film Think Like a Man In the comedy took the supporting role of Alex Brown.