Tevin Campbell

Tevin Jermod Campbell (born November 12, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter and actor.Born in Waxahachie, Texas; he displayed a passion for singing at a very early age, performing gospel in his local church.Following an audition for a famous jazz musician, Bobbi Humprey, in 1988, Campbell was signed to Warner Bros. Records.In 1989, Campbell collaborated with music impresario Quincy Jones performing lead vocals for "Tomorrow" on Jones' album "Back on the Block" and released his Platinum-selling debut album, T.E.V.I.N..The album included his highest-charting single to date, "Tell Me What You Want Me to Do", peaking at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.The debut album also included the singles "Alone With You" (produced by Al B. Sure and Kyle West, with background vocals by K-Ci and JoJo from Jodeci), and "Goodbye". His double-Platinum selling second album, I'm Ready, released in 1993, included two of Campbell's most popular songs (both of which were penned by Babyface), "Can We Talk" which peaked at number 9 on the Hot 100 and number 1 on the Billboard R&B charts, and the album's title track "I'm Ready", which also peaked at number 9 on the Hot 100.In 1996, Campbell released his third album, Back to the World, which was not as commercially or critically successful as his first two releases.His self-titled fourth album, Tevin Campbell, was released in 1999, but, performed poorly on Billboard's album charts. Apart from music, Campbell commenced an acting career, by appearing in the sequel to Prince's Purple Rain named Graffiti Bridge and made guest appearances on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Moesha television programs, voiced the character named Powerline in Disney's animated A Goofy Movie film and was cast as Seaweed in the Broadway musical Hairspray in 2005. Throughout his career, Campbell has earned 5 Grammy Award nominations, selling an estimated 3 million album copies worldwide (primarily from his first two albums).

Combs became an intern at New York's Uptown Records.In 1993, after being fired from Uptown, Combs established his new label Bad Boy Entertainment as a joint venture with Arista Records.In 1997, under the name Puff Daddy, Combs recorded his first commercial vocal work as a rapper. His debut single, "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down", spent 28 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chIn April 1999, Combs was charged with assault as a result of an incident with Steve Stoute of Interscope Records. Stoute was the manager for Nas, with whom Combs had filmed a video earlier that year for the song "Hate Me Nowart, peaking at number one.In April 1999, Combs was charged with assault as a result of an incident with Steve Stoute of Interscope Records.