Chris Brown

Chris Brown belongs to the category of music geeks. Even as a child, he listened to his parents' soul records, and at ten-something he already perfectly learned to sing and dance, imitating Michael Jackson and Usher. At thirteen, young Chris caught the eye of Island Def Jam label employee Tina Davis, who introduced the boy to her bosses. They did not seem to mind signing the young talent, but the label then had no time for new names. In the end, Tina took over Chris' business with her own hands and eventually signed him to Jive Records. The debut made a splash - the single "Run It!" (a duet with rapper Julez Santana) climbed to the top of the Billboard 200 charts, and the unpretentious title "Chris Brown" peaked at number two and went double platinum in the US. By the second disc, released two years later, Chris was already in the R&B party "on the board" - he recorded duets with T-Pain and Nas, received awards and invited to the producers will.i.am, Stargate and Swizz Beatz. And again "platinum" in the United States, the fourth place in the album charts and the first place in the hit single "Kiss-Kiss". In 2009, Chris released his third album "Graffiti", in which, in his own words, he pays tribute to Michael Jackson and Prince (Prince), but the press is much more often discussed not Chris's music, but his personal life. On February 8, 2009, Chris was taken to the police station on charges of beating a woman. Although the details of the story were made public, the victim was Brown's girlfriend, R&B singer Rihanna. The child prodigy, whom until recently everyone was touched by, turned into a "bad boy". In the impending Grammy Awards, Brown was hastily replaced by Justin Timberlake, and the singer's career generally began to decline. Chris did his best to save the situation, repeatedly making excuses in the press, but he did not manage to "clean up" to the end. Personal life: not married, lives in Los Angeles.