Christopher Maurice Brown was born on May 5, 1989 and he is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, dancer, and actor.
Chris Brown Biography
Christopher Maurice Brown was born on May 5, 1989, in the small town of Tappahannock, Virginia, to Joyce Hawkins, a former daycare director, and Clinton Brown, a corrections officer at a local prison.
He has an older sister, Lytrell Bundy, who works in a bank. Music was always present in Brown’s life from his childhood. He would listen to soul albums that his parents owned, and eventually began to show an interest in the hip-hop scene.
Brown learned to sing and dance at a young age and often cites Michael Jackson as his inspiration. He began performing in his church choir and in various local talent shows.
When he imitated an Usher rendition of “My Way“, his mother recognized her vocal talents and they began looking at a record deal opportunity.
At the same time, Brown was experiencing personal problems. His parents had divorced him and his mother’s boyfriend terrorized him by subjecting his to domestic violence.
Chris Brown Net Worth
His net worth is a whopping $60 million dollars.
Chris Brown Career
At age 13, Brown has beendiscovered by Hitmission Records, a local production team that visited his father’s gas station looking for new talent. Hitmission’s Lamont Fleming provided voice training for Brown, and the team helped put together a demo package and approached contacts in New York to pursue a record deal.
Tina Davis, senior A&R executive at Def Jam Recordings, was impressed when Brown auditioned at her New York office, immediately leading him to meet former Island Def Jam Music Group president Antonio “L.A.” Reid. , who offered to sign him that day. “I knew Chris had real talent,” says Davis. “I just knew that he wanted to be a part of it.”
Negotiations with Def Jam continued for two months, with Davis later losing his job due to a corporate merger. He was asking her to manage her, and once Davis agreed, she promoted the singer to labels including Jive Records, J-Records, and Warner Bros. Records.
He ultimately chose Jive due to his successful work with young acts like Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.
He stated, “I chose Jive because they have the most success with the younger artists in the pop market, I knew it was going to capture my African-American audience, but Jive had a lot of strength in the pop area as well. like longevity in racing.”
He was attending Essex High School in Virginia until early 2005, when she moved to New York to pursue her music career.
After signing with Jive Records in 2004, he start recording her self-titled debut studio album in February 2005. By May, there had already been 50 songs recorded, 14 of which were selected for the final track listing.
The singer worked with various producers and songwriters—Scott Storch, Cool & Dre, and Jazze Pha among them—commenting that they “really believed in him”. Brown co-wrote most of the tracks.
“I write about the things 16-year-olds go through every day,” says Brown. “Like you got in trouble for sneaking your girl into the house, or you couldn’t drive so you stole a car or something.” The entire album took less than eight weeks to produce.
Released on November 29, 2005, Chris Brown ‘s self-titled album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 154,000 copies.
Chris Brown was a relative commercial success for the time; selling over two million copies in the United States, where it was certified twice platinum by the RIAA, and three million copies worldwide.
The album’s lead single, “Run It!”, made Brown the first male act (since Montell Jordan in 1995) to have their debut single reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100; later four more remain weeks.
Three of the other singles, “Yo (Excuse Me, Miss)”, “Gimme That”, and “Say Goodbye”, appeared in the top twenty on the same chart.
On June 13, 2006, he was releasing a DVD titled Chris Brown’s Journey , showing footage of him traveling through England and Japan, preparing for his first visit to the Grammy Awards, behind the scenes of his music videos and mistakes.
On August 17, 2006, to further promote the album, he start his co-headlining headlining tour, The Up Close and Personal Tour . Due to the tour, the production of his next album was delayed for two months.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital received $10,000 in ticket revenue from Brown’s 2006 “Up Close & Personal” tour. He has made appearances on UPN’s One on One and The N’s Brandon T. Jackson Show in its pilot episode.
In January 2007, he was landing a small role as a fan of the band in the fourth season of the American television series The OC . He then made his film debut in Stomp the Yard , opposite Ne-Yo, Meagan Good, and Columbus Short on January 12, 2007.
In April 2007, he was the opening act for Beyoncé, in the Australian leg of her The Beyoncé Experience tour.
On July 9, 2007, he was appearing on an episode of MTV’s My Super Sweet 16 for the event, it was retitled: Chris Brown: My Super 18 celebrating his eighteenth birthday in New York City.
Chris Brown Business Companies
In 2007, he was founding the CBE (Chris Brown Entertainment or Culture Beyond Your Evolution) record label, under Interscope Records.
He has since signed frequent collaborator Kevin McCall, singer Sabrina Antoinette, former RichGirl member Sevyn Streeter, singer-songwriter Joelle James, and rock group UGLY.
He has stated that he owns fourteen Burger King restaurants.
In 2012, he was launching a clothing line called Black Pyramid , in collaboration with the founders of the Pink + Dolphin clothing line.
Black Pyramid’s official Instagram account has gained more than 1 million followers on Instagram as of the end of 2019.
Chris Brown Songs
Chris Brown Discography
- Chris Brown (2005)
- Exclusive (2007)
- Graffiti (2009)
- FAMA (2011)
- Luck (2012)
- X (2014)
- Royalty (2015)
- Heartbreak on a Full Moon (2017)
- Indigo (2019)
- Windy (TBA)
Chris Brown Diamond Brown Baby
He has just proved that he is the father of Diamond Brown‘s baby, Lovely. He was posting a beautiful photo of her little girl to celebrate her three-month-old birthday.
Following rumors that Chris Brown is the father of Diamond Brown’s baby, the musician has just confirmed that he is actually sharing a baby with Diamond. The singer was sharing a cute photo of the little guy on his Instagram story on April 8.
The photo was taken to commemorate the baby named Beau Maron, who is three months old. Additionally, he was posting a series of red heart emojis below the image. This is the first time he has publicly acknowledged the boy.
In Hawaii on September 9, Diamond showed off her baby bump for the first time in several stunning photos on Instagram post. Since then, Brunette Beauty was sharing many photos of her growing baby bump, celebrating November 7 in Los Angeles with a beautiful baby shower.
Chris Brown Age
He is 33 years old.
Chris Brown Personal Life
From 2007 to 2009, he was dating Barbadian singer Rihanna until her highly publicized domestic violence case.
In 2011, he start dating aspiring model Karrueche Tran. In October 2012, he was announcing that she ended her relationship with Tran because he “didn’t want to see her hurt by my friendship with Rihanna.”
The day after the announcement, he was releasing a video titled “The Real Chris Brown,” which features footage of him, Tran, and Rihanna, as he wonders, “Is there love for two people? I don’t know if it’s possible.” but I feel like this.”
In January 2013, Rihanna confirmed that she and him had resumed their romantic relationship, saying, “It’s different now. We don’t have those kinds of arguments anymore. We talk shit. We value each other. We know exactly what we have right now, and we don’t want to.” lose that.”
Speaking of him, Rihanna also said, “He’s not the monster everyone thinks he is. He’s a good person. He has a fantastic heart.He’s generous and loving. And he’s fun to be around. That’s what I love.” of him, he always makes me laugh.
All I want to do is laugh, really, and I do with him.” However, she also stated that she would leave if he showed any hint of her past violent behavior towards her. In a May 2013 interview, he stated that him and Rihanna had broken up again.
He later reunited with Tran, but they separated following the confirmation of Brown’s daughter Royalty with Nia Guzmán in 2015.
In 2017, Tran received a 5-year restraining order against him after testify under oath that he was physically abusive during their relationship, and threatened her after they broke up.
On November 20, 2019, he welcomed his second child, Aeko Catori Brown, with Ammika Harris (Pietzker).