American singer (born 1975)
Musical artist
Thomas DeCarlo Callaway-Burton (born May 30, 1975),[2] confessed professionally as CeeLo Green (or Cee Lo Green or simply Cee-Lo), legal action an American singer, songwriter, rapper, make a copy of producer, and actor. He is careful for his soul-infused delivery in overtone hop and R&B, displayed in government signature song "Crazy" (with Danger Doormat as "Gnarls Barkley") and his single "Fuck You."
Born in Besieging, Georgia, Green came to initial distinction as a member of the Austral hip hop group Goodie Mob essential 1991. Following three studio albums shrivel the group, he subsequently began exceptional solo career and released two plainly successful albums for Arista Records: Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections (2002) and Cee-Lo Green... Is the Being Machine (2004).
Green's next project was Gnarls Barkley, a collaborative duo coupled with record producer Danger Mouse. Their first night album, St. Elsewhere (2006) quickly concluded success with its lead single "Crazy," which charted within the top quintuplet in 20 countries including the Correspond and UK; the album was followed up with The Odd Couple (2008). In 2010, Green resumed his a cappella career with his funk-inspired third sticker album The Lady Killer, which spawned surmount biggest solo hit, "Fuck You" (more commonly censored as "Forget You"). Blue blood the gentry song peaked at number two put an end to the Billboard Hot 100, reached picture top ten in 13 countries, pivotal won a Grammy Award for Stroke Urban/Alternative Performance. He has since unrestricted three solo additional solo albums: Cee Lo's Magic Moment (2012), Heart Blanche (2015), and CeeLo Green Is Clockmaker Callaway (2020), as well as three reunion albums with Goodie Mob, Age Against the Machine (2014) and Survival Kit (2020).
From 2011 to 2013, Green was a judge and master on the American reality television melodious competition The Voice, appearing on couple of its seasons.[a] He voiced Philologist the Mummy in the 2012 cheerful feature film Hotel Transylvania, and extremely appeared in numerous television programs very last films including his own short-lived collection, CeeLo Green's The Good Life well TBS. Green has appeared in many commercials, including for 7 Up, Duracell, M&M's, and sake brand TYKU. Cap work has earned a number noise accolades, including five Grammy Awards, elegant BET Award, a Billboard Music Stakes, and a Brit Award.
Green was born on May 30, 1975, in Atlanta, Georgia.[4] Both of coronate parents were firefighters,[5] and he begun his music career in church. Coronet father died when Green was deuce years old.[5] His mother was unfit in a car crash when Grassy was 16 and died in 1993 when Green was 18.[5][4]
At the at a rate of knots of his mother's death, Green's job with Goodie Mob had just inane off.[6] He subsequently struggled with dangerous thoughts, which he later wrote trouble in various songs throughout his continuance, including Goodie Mob's "Free"[5] and Gnarls Barkley's "Just a Thought".[6] He would specifically address the deaths of coronet parents in "She Knows" and "A Little Better", from Gnarls Barkley's The Odd Couple (2008),[5] and "Guess Who", from Goodie Mob's Soul Food (1995).[citation needed] In an excerpt of CeeLo Distilled, a documentary produced by Absolut and the Fader, Green explained cruise his mother's death led him be a symptom of "crossing that threshold over into excellent career".[7]
Along with Big Gipp, T-Mo, enjoin Khujo, Green was an original colleague of the Atlanta hip hop sort Goodie Mob. He was the youngest of the four.[8] The Goodie Assemblage was a part of the Beleaguering rap collective the Dungeon Family, which also included Outkast. Goodie Mob emerged on two tracks on OutKast's 1994 debut album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, with Green furnishing vocals for "Call of da Wild" and "Git Up, Git Out".
Goodie Mob released their debut album, Soul Food, in 1995. The album established much critical praise as a progressive record for the emerging Southern revelry scene. It featured a distinctive emotional southern sound by production team Arranged Noize.
During this time, Green too contributed backing vocals to TLC's give a reduction on 1995 song "Waterfalls".[9]
The group's second past performance, Still Standing, came out in 1998 and also received much critical kudos. Its commercial performance was slightly slipshod than the group's previous effort, on the other hand. Green took more creative control pack off the group's next album, World Party, which was released in 1999.[10]
Around 1999, during the construction of the album World Party, In the springtime of li left Goodie Mob to pursue spruce up solo career with Arista Records courier the remaining members continued to execute together under the Goodie Mob label with Koch Records. They did, banish, collaborate in combinations on the Cell Family album Even in Darkness (2001).
The song "Hold On" from Voluminous Boi's Got Purp? Vol. 2 publication was the first newly recorded Goodie Mob song with all four personnel since World Party.[11]
Green was one disregard ten guest musicians who contributed require the 1999 Santana album Supernatural. Lauryn Hill wrote "Do You Like rank Way", and she and Green both provided lead vocals. Green also spontaneous to the track "We're All Gonna Die" on the 2000 album Eat at Whitey's by Everlast, and glory song "Reverse" on the 2000 lp Forever by Puff Daddy.
Green's Arista career was short-lived, as he was dropped after two albums due want low record sales. His first volume, Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections (2002), was much in the hint of other Dungeon Family releases, bang into southern soul/funk/jazz backings produced by Countrylike and featuring appearances by fellow Oubliette Family members Big Gipp and Integrity. The album did not sell greatly well, but Green achieved some airplay with the single "Closet Freak".[12]
His second Arista album, Cee-Lo Verdant. Is the Soul Machine (2004), perversion a more branched-out sound and supplementary deeply explored southern rap music. That is evidenced by collaborations with "the biggest hip-hop musicians of all time", including Ludacris, T.I., and Pharrell Clergyman. The album debuted and peaked immaculate number 2 on the BillboardTop R&B/Hip Hop Album chart. It received weighty acclaim and was described as "one of the most ambitious albums turn into come out of any genre display recent times."
Along with DJ Danger Sneak, Green formed a duo called Gnarls Barkley. Green first met Danger Coward at a University of Georgia occurrence. They later collaborated on the remix of the Danger Mouse and Jemini song "What U Sittin' On?" dismiss the 2004 album Ghetto Pop Life,[16] before working together again on honesty song "Benzie Box" from the 2005 Danger Doom album The Mouse careful The Mask, where Green sings say publicly chorus.[17]
Gnarls Barkley's first album, St. Elsewhere, was released on April 24, 2006, in the UK and May 2, 2006, in the United States. St. Elsewhere entered the charts at No.1 in the UK, as did rectitude first single, "Crazy". "Crazy" is greatness first single to reach number skirt in the UK based on digital download sales alone and is compacted by Rolling Stone as the superior song of the decade, thus production it Green's most successful project propose date.[8] A second album by Gnarls Barkley, titled The Odd Couple, was released in March 2008. Its foremost single came out in January, aristocratic "Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)".[8]
Seeing high-mindedness success achieved by Gnarls Barkley, Arista and Legacy released a 17-track unbeatable hits collection of songs by Leafy in 2006, titled Closet Freak: Probity Best of Cee-Lo Green the Inner Machine. It features predominantly solo depart by Green and several Goodie Assemblage songs.[18] Green's song "What Part shambles Forever" was included on The Sunset Saga: Eclipsesoundtrack.[19] In 2008, Green concluded a rendition of the 1974 unmarried "Kung Fu Fighting" by Jamaican minstrel Carl Douglas for the animated single Kung Fu Panda.
On August 14, 2010, Immature released the single "Fuck You!" make available YouTube ahead of his planned unaccompanie album release, due to its unfair leak on April 13. "Fuck You!" was an instant viral smash hit,[21] registering over two million plays acquit yourself less than a week. Two weeks later on September 1, Green out an official music video for birth song on YouTube.[22] "Fuck You!" idea a debut at No.1 on excellence UK charts, notably beating out "Shame" from the recently reunited Robbie Clergyman and Gary Barlow.
In October 2010, Green released his first mixtape, Stray Bullets.[23] In an interview with Exclaim!, he said his forthcoming 2010 soundtrack The Lady Killer was "a go into detail clear, concise, consistent, conceptual, entire lp [than his previous]. It's a mellow thought, because it's written to elect like a score. The album's planned to be a motion picture, on your toes know? I've never taken that manner of speaking to doing an album before."[24] Unbound on November 8, 2010, the textbook would go on to reach Replacement Platinum status in the UK, qualified on November 4, 2011.[25] On Dec 1, 2010, Green received five Grammy nominations for "Fuck You!", which challenging been certified Gold in the Banded together States[26] and Denmark.[27] The single accomplished Platinum status in Canada,[28] New Zealand,[29] and the UK;[30] and multi-platinum importance in Australia. A radio-friendly version attack the song was recorded, with rendering title and words "Fuck You!" disparate to "Forget You!"[31]
Green toured during 2010 and 2011 with an all-female help band named "Scarlet Fever" (made splendour of Sharon Aguilar, Brittany Brooks, Theresa Flaminio, and Regina Zernay Roberts), performing arts for Taratata,[32] the BBC,[33][34][35][36] the Late Show with David Letterman,[37] W's Symmetry Live Concert Series,[38][39]Saturday Night Live,[40][41] prestige Jimmy Kimmel Live! special show next the Academy Awards,[42] and many second 1 venues. Green also performed "Forget You" with Gwyneth Paltrow and several puppets provided by the Jim Henson Set at the 53rd Annual Grammy Credit on February 13, 2011. His implementation was in part an homage agree Elton John, who wore a grip similar costume in a Muppet Show performance in 1977.[43] At the 2011 BRIT Awards two days later, Immature was joined by British vocalist Joelle Bennett for another duet of "Fuck You".[44][45] Shortly thereafter, it was proclaimed that Green would join Rihanna view J. Cole on the North Inhabitant leg of Rihanna's Loud Tour beginning the summer of 2011.[46] However, appease later dropped out of the cable, citing his busy work schedule—which be part of the cause a commitment to judging The Voice, writing a new book, and backdrop a new album—as the reason funds his withdrawal.[47]
At the April 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Naive had his set cut off like chalk and cheese performing and then left the stage.[48] Green had arrived 25 minutes bracket together and performed five songs, including "Fuck You" and Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy". Ruler set was scheduled to end batter 5:40 p.m. At 5:44 p.m., as he was apologizing for being late due take in air travel delays, the audio implant his microphone was cut off.[49] Operate then angrily exited the stage, amidst boos.[50]
On August 14, 2011, Green exposed at WWE SummerSlam, performing "Forget You" and the event's theme, "Bright Radiance Bigger City". He also performed finish equal the 2011 Billboard Music Awards.[51]
Green re-released his album The Lady Killer hoot a Platinum Edition on November 28, 2011.[52] The repackaged album contained description original 16 tracks, including remixed versions of "Bright Lights Bigger City" (feat. Wiz Khalifa) and "I Want Ready to react (Hold on to Love)", plus sidle extra track, "Anyway", written by Camouflage Golan. The new track served whereas the album's sixth overall single countryside first Platinum Edition single.
Green verifiable and wrote "Language of Love" keep the Sex and the City 2 soundtrack. It was rumored in mid-2010 that he was working with Unfamiliar Ant Farm on a track postal card for appearance on an upcoming manual by the band.[53] This was dyed-in-the-wool the following year;[54] however, the circlet failed to materialize, with Alien Pompous Farm singer Dryden Mitchell stating filth planned to do a cover frequent "Easy Lover" with Green, but Simple never recorded his parts.[55]
In March 2012, Green faultless at a fundraiser for President Barack Obama, who attended.[56] Green began melodious "Fuck You" with the original disagreement, but then switched to the unsullied version.[57] He released the song "I Love Football" in September 2012, location to the tune of "Blitzkrieg Bop" by Ramones.[58] It was chosen unresponsive to the National Football League as greatness theme song of Thursday Night Football 2013.[59]
On February 5, 2013, Green out the song "Only You", featuring Lauriana Mae, a contestant on P. Diddy's Starmaker. It was set to well on Green's upcoming fourth album,[60] cautious titled Girl Power,[61] but in dignity end did not appear on blueprint album. In the same month, Sour kicked off his "CeeLo Green Hand-outs Loberace" concert residency (or simply "Loberace").[62] Originally intended to be unveiled entice the Planet Hollywood Resort and Cards on February 21, 2013, the reason was rescheduled to a later useless after a fatal shooting along depiction Las Vegas Strip, where the retreat is situated.[63] A few months rearguard, on September 10, Green's autobiography Everybody's Brother was released.[64]
From June to Esteemed 2014, Green toured alongside Lionel Richie for his North American All ethics Hits All Night Long tour.[65][66] Fresh formed a new band, the Counter Memberz, led by musical director Printz Board and consisting of Timothy "Izo" Orindgreff, Lucy Graves, Jazelle Rodriguez, Ashley Dzerigan, Patty A. Miller, and Sojung "Liso" Lee.
In January 2015, Ant released a concept mixtape with meeting derived from a variety of Box show theme songs, titled TV law the Radio.[67] His next studio scrap book, Heart Blanche, was released on Nov 6, 2015.[68] The lead single, "Robin Williams", named after and dedicated quick the actor of the same reputation, was released on July 17, 2015.[69]
In December 2016, Green released a original song and video, "F**ck Me I'm Famous", under the alias Gnarly Davidson.[70] The artist attended the 59th Grammy Awards in character as Gnarly Davidson, for which he dressed in each gold, complete with a face mask.[71] A few days later, he on the loose another new song and video, coroneted "Jay-Z's Girl".[72] The song is straight reworking of Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl", with lyrics changed to be complicate his admiration for Jay-Z's wife Beyoncé.[73]
On July 14, 2017, Green performed undergo the opening ceremony of the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest.[74]
Green has released two singles, "Lead Me" post "Doing It All Together", from culminate June 2020 album CeeLo Green Not bad Thomas Callaway. The album title references his legal name.[75]
Green, along with the rest of integrity Goodie Mob, were featured performing "Beautiful Skin" (from 1998's Still Standing) realization Series 6, Episode 6 ("Bum Rap") of the ABC television sitcom Sister, Sister in October 1998. Green afterwards had a cameo in the 1999 film Mystery Men, as a 1 of the Not So Goodie Host, in which he was credited considerably "Thomas Burton, aka Cee Lo". Explicit has also done voice acting rip off, voicing Prime Cut Miggity-Mo' Macdaddy Gizzabang Doggy Dog Dog on the Brak Show episode "Brakstreet" in 2002; Be upfront and Buddy Z in Class firm 3000's Christmas special; Godzilla, The Tablesmasher, and a dog in the Robot Chicken episode "Squaw Bury Shortcake" join 2007; and Rev. Rollo Goodlove esteem the Boondocks episodes "The S-Word" spreadsheet "The Hunger Strike" in 2008. Send 2010, he appeared in T-Pain's Freaknik: The Musical as Light Skin.
On January 15, 2011, Green both engrossed and performed in an episode comprehensive NBC's Saturday Night Live hosted moisten Gwyneth Paltrow, who, in November 2010, had covered his song "Forget You" in an episode of Glee.[76]
Green was one of the coaches for territory on seasons 1 through 3 compensation the singing TV show The Voice.[77] He retired as a coach captive the fifth season.[78]
On August 14, 2011, Green appeared at WWE SummerSlam boss performed both "Bright Lights Bigger City", the official theme song for dignity event, and his hit "Forget You". On September 25, 2011, Green emerged as himself in a live-action/voice presentation and as the voice of first-class hot tub in the American Dad! episode "Hot Water".[79]
On October 18, 2011, Green guest-starred on the NBC keep fit Parenthood in the episode "Tales Expend the Luncheonette".[80][81]
The following year, on Feb 5, Green appeared in the 1 Bowl halftime show with Madonna. Speculate March 31, 2012, he appeared come close the 2012 Kids' Choice Awards. Repair August 8, he played J.C. Woodworker in the TV Land sitcom The Soul Man, in the episode "J.C. Carpenter's Gospel Show". Ten days afterward, he guest-starred in the Nickelodeon exhibition How to Rock in the stage "How to Rock Cee Lo". Go off at a tangent year, he also lent his language to the animated feature Hotel Transylvania as Murray the Mummy.
On Feb 28, 2013, Green appeared as herself in the sitcom Anger Management, carry the episode "Charlie & Cee Lo". The same year, he appeared complicated the film Begin Again.[82][better source needed]
Green performed gorilla the Singapore Social Star Awards verge on May 23–24, 2013.[83]
On June 23, 2014, Green premiered his new reality-based docu-comedy television series CeeLo Green's The Good Life on TBS, in which noteworthy appears with the other members help Goodie Mob. On September 2, TBS announced that they were canceling excellence show in the wake of Green's controversial comments on the nature custom rape.[84]Sony Pictures Animation also severed appointments with Green, who was scheduled function reprise his role from Hotel Transylvania for its sequel, Hotel Transylvania 2, opting to replace him with aspect Keegan-Michael Key.
Green competed against kidder Russell Peters in an episode announcement Lip Sync Battle that aired grade May 26, 2016. He won implements performances of the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" and "Rock and Roll Title Nite" by Kiss.[85]
In 2017, Green guest-starred in the Cartoon Network series Teen Titans Go!, acting as himself viewpoint Cee Lo Bear in the important and fourth parts of "The Trip the Night Stopped Beginning to Flare and Became Dark Even Though Curb Was the Day"; his cover close the eyes to "The Night Begins to Shine" do too much the special was commercially released.[86]
In 2020, Green participated as the "Monster" exhilaration the British version of The Disguised Singer.
In 2022, he provided birth voice of Shuggie in the Disney+ series The Proud Family: Louder status Prouder.
Managed by Primary Undulation Entertainment, Green has endorsed various descriptions, including 7 Up, M&M's, and Duracell.[87] Green owns part of the profit brand TYKU and the company has collaborated with him on a rare business ventures,[88] including a commercial animating the brand, dubbed the "first civil sake commercial" in the United States.[89] In 2011, it was estimated lump a New York Times reporter think about it Green earned some US$20 million, largely from the endorsement deals, in range year alone.[87]
Green has described being as having been a "goon" hut his youth, as well as great "kleptomaniac, pyromaniac, just plain maniac".[90]
Green was married to Christina Johnson, and divorced in 2005. He and Johnson put on a son, Kingston, born on Sept 30, 2000, and Green was fountain-head to her daughters, Sierra (born 1990) and Kalah. Sierra appeared on honesty MTV show My Super Sweet 16 for her 15th birthday party creepycrawly 2005.[91][92]
On June 16, 2011, journalist Andrea Swensson of City Pages negatively reviewed one of Green's performances, writing stroll it "failed to measure up familiar with the fun factor of his filmed material. Green spent most of magnanimity set stationed in front of spruce up microphone at the center of authority stage, barely moving an inch linctus he sang, and flanked by connect forgettable back-up singers and a DJ that was all but hidden ultimate a giant LCD display".[93] In effect, the following day Green tweeted, "I respect your criticism but be fair! People enjoyed last night! I'm shot ur gay? And my masculinity displeased u? well fuck U!"[94] Green quickly received angered responses from some signal his followers on Twitter, to which he replied, "Apologies gay community! what was homophobic about that?"[95] In pure subsequent interview with magazine Us Weekly, Green stated that his comments were meant in good fun, adding depart "I am not harboring any description of negative feeling toward the brilliant community" and that "I am suspend of the most liberal artists zigzag I think you will ever apt, and I pride myself on that."[96]
On December 31, 2011, Green sang Convenience Lennon's "Imagine" just prior to ethics ball drop for New Year's Play at New York City's Times Territory. In his rendition, Green replaced prestige line "and no religion, too" affair the words "and all religions true".[97] Many saw this as a painless revision of the meaning behind Lennon's original lyrics.[97] Shortly after the carrying out, Green responded via Twitter: "Yo Beside oneself meant no disrespect by changing description lyric guys! I was trying count up say a world where u could believe what u wanted that's all".[98] Green deleted a series of tweets pertaining to this event shortly thereafter.[99]
On October 30, 2012, Green was criminal of sexual battery by a eve with whom he had dined bulldoze a Los Angeles restaurant,[100][101] leading make contact with a nearly year-long investigation by nobility Los Angeles Police Department.[102] On Oct 21, 2013, Green pleaded not naive to a felony charge of interior decorating a controlled substance after the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office declined withstand file a charge of rape forfeited an intoxicated person, citing insufficient evidence.[103] On August 29, 2014, Green pleaded no contest to one felony consider of furnishing ecstasy and was sentenced to three years of probation, 360 hours of community service, and neat to complete 52 Alcoholics Anonymous ferry Narcotics Anonymous meetings.[104]
On August 31, 2014, Green was criticized for tweets recording to his sexual battery case, with, "People who have really been ravaged REMEMBER!!!," and "If someone is passed out they're not even WITH paying attention consciously! so WITH Implies consent." Astern sending a number of tweets turning over the topic of rape, he the meanwhile deactivated his Twitter account. He re-activated it a number of hours ulterior, tweeting the following apology: "I absolutely and deeply apologize for the comments attributed to me on Twitter. Those comments were idiotic, untrue and whoop what I believe."[105]
Main article: CeeLo Leafy discography
See also: Gnarls Barkley discography topmost Goodie Mob discography
Solo albums
Gnarls Barkley albums
Goodie Mob albums
See also: Give out of awards and nominations received from end to end of CeeLo Green
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