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Tevin Campbell - Biography

Tevin Campbell was born in Dallas, Texas on November 12, 1976. At the age of 12, he became one ofthe youngest solo artists to ever be signed to a major record label. Benny Medina, then Senior Vice

President of Black Music at Warner Bros Records signed Campbell in 1988. Quincy Jones took a special

interest in Tevin's talent and he appeared on Jones' LP Back on the Block and was featured on

"Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me)," which hit number one on the R&B charts in June 1990. With his high, flexible tenor, Campbell recalled an earlier Jones prot g , Michael Jackson. Later that year, he

appeared in Prince's Graffiti Bridge film singing "Round and Round," which Prince wrote for him and

which became a gold single. Next, in the summer of 1991, he appeared on the soundtrack to Boyz in the

Hood singing "Just Ask Me To," a Top Ten R&B hit. All of this set the stage for his debut album,

1991's

T.E.V.I.N., which went platinum and spawned two R&B chart-toppers, "

Tell Me What You Want Me to Do

" and "Alone with You," as well as the R&B Top Five hit "Goodbye." I'm Ready, released two years

later, did even better, going double platinum and featuring three R&B chart hits -- the number one      "Can We Talk ," "I'm Ready," which went Top Five, and "Always in My Heart," which reached the Top Ten.

Campbell's compilation album was not a commercial success in America, however this album reached

multi-platinum status between several thriving TC fan populations such as Africa, Japan and London.

Campbell has worked with some of the industry's top writers and producers including Prince, Babyface,

Al B. Sure, Narada Michael Walden, Wyclef and Sean "Diddy" Combs.

Campbell has several acting appearances under his belt. In the classic series, The Fresh Prince of

Bel-Air TC played a memorable fictional teen idol, "Little T", in 1995 went on to play in A Goofy Movie

and in an episode of Moesha starring Brandy. In recent years, Campbell has taken Broadway by storm and played the role of Seaweed J.Stubbs in the hit Broadway musical Hairspray. He joined the cast in December 2005. Campbell reprised his role of Seaweed in the Broadway musical,

Hairspray, in the Melbourne and Sydney productions in

Australia.