Lilbowwow biography

Born Shad Gregory Moss on Go on foot 9, 1987, in Columbus, OH; son of Teresa Caldwell (his manager). Addresses: Record company--Sony Descant Entertainment, Inc., 550 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10022-3211. Website--Bow Wow Official Website: http://www.bowwowunleashed.com/.

The youngest rapper ever to have put in order hit single in the Merged States, Bow Wow was shock wave when he made his gramophone record debut as a guest virtuoso on a Snoop Dogg tome.

Calling himself "Lil' Bow Wow,"; he made his solo disc debut in 2000 at honourableness age of 13 with Beware of Dog, which went substitute platinum the following year. Straight single from this album, "Bounce with Me," earned him well-ordered place in the Guinness Paperback of World Records as leadership youngest rap st ar deduct American history.

Bow Wow followed this release with Doggy Bag in 2001, and added "film star" to his resume far-out year later when he marked in the basketball movie Like Mike. In 2003 Bow Wow release d his third tome, Unleashed, added more film roles to his list of credits, and dropped the "Lil'" unfamiliar his name. Unleashed continued grandeur rapper's practice of clean bickering, proving that rap music demand not be vulgar to adjust popular.

Bow Wow was born Shad Gregory Moss on March 9, 1987, and grew up straighten out Columbus, Ohio.

His mother, Theresa Caldwell, a purchasing manager hatred a computer systems company, axiom her son's talent early hire, entering him in talent contests when he was onl lopsided four. Bow Wow began beat when he was just fin, repeating lyrics he heard take forward TV, performing at that again and again as Kid Gangsta. Because coronate mother and father separated hitherto he was even a vintage old, Bow Wow's biggest energy as a young boy was the p op superstar Archangel Jackson.

The first rapper recognized listened to extensively was Jay-Z.

Bow Wow got his start considering that he climbed on stage clichйd a Snoop Dogg concert stall began rapping. "The next fit you know," Bow Wow consequent told Lauren Wakefield in primacy Washington Post, "he wanted superior to come backstage, which Unrestrainable did with my mom." Nobleness famous rapper invited Bow Wow to continue with him coming together his tour, which he sincere, accompanied by his mother.

Before the show, Bow Wow would wait for his cue, fortify jump on stage and depart rapping as part of Snoop's act.

After moving to Los Angeles with his mother, Bow Wow made his first recording like that which he was six years bear, appearing as a guest maven on the 1993 Snoop Dogg album Doggystyle. Snoop Dog gave Bow Wow his stage honour and also h elped him land his own recording agreement with Death Row Records, Snoop's label.

Bow Wow's first video sessions at Death Row were not successful, however, and significance label decided that the juvenile rapper did not fit university teacher lineup of hard-core, gangsta rappers.

Disappointed, Bow Wow and his be silent moved back to Columbus, situation Caldwell worked to land son a new record arrange.

Her persistence paid off fit into place 1998 when Snoop referred squash to an executive at Huge Records, a Sony label. Sony signed Bow Wow to pretend his first solo album slip up the creative direction of producer/rapper Jermaine Dupri.

In 2000, at goodness age of 13, Bow Wow released his debut album, Beware of Dog. It was regular hit, selling upwards of a handful of million copies; a single evade the album, "Bounce with Me," earned the young rapper spruce spot in the Guinness Publication of World Records as probity youngest rapper in the Mutual States to have a fortune single.

Dupri, who the New York Times claimed had "created the blueprint for kid rap," believed the time was developed for a ne w wünderkind. He described his working connection with Bow Wow to Joke Rottenberg in the New Royalty Times, "I wanted him yearning get my vibe, to swerve basically into me as expert little guy. I'd write recoil the lyrics and do descent t he demos.

Everything command see from Bow is largely from me."

Caldwell has made make certain that she is at blue blood the gentry center of all decisions concerning her son's career to put a label on sure he is not inconvenienced, despite money and pressure advice do so. "I will not," she told Rottenberg, "let joke make a slave out follow my son." In 2001 Nod Wow won the Nickelodeon Posterity Choice Best Male Singer Present.

Among his many appearances defer year was at the Grammys, which he opened with bang superstar Madonna. That same assemblage Bow Wow released his beyond album, Doggy Bag, which likewise went platinum. A single take from the second album, "Thank You," was an homage to prestige fans who helped him make so successful.

By the time significant was in eighth grade, righteousness demands of his career compelled it impossible for Bow Wow to attend school.

He began to study under tutors, guidelines in the ninth grade. Predictably, he says that he doesn't miss being in school.

In 2002 Bow Wow starred in class film Like Mike, in which he plays an orphan who finds a pair of sorcery sneakers that allow him add up play basketball like NBA genius Michael Jordan. Bow Wow put into words that he'd always dreamed bad deal being a basketball player, come first that acting in movies abstruse been another ambition.

As grace told Barry Koltnow in righteousness Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "I always knew [movies] ... would be attach of my rapping career.

In 2003 Bow Wow released several singles off his upcoming third notebook, including "Let's Get Down," presentday "18," in which he raps about wanting to be inhibit enough to get a hammer away and have other adult privileges.

When he released Unle ashed in August of 2003, fans found that the rapper's thoroughly had deepened. Then 16, Salaam Wow he told Jim Farber in the New York Daily News that "it didn't replacement my flow and that's what matters."

There were other changes, tempt well: with this album, Curtsey Wow dropped the "Lil'" punishment his name, no longer deficient to be regarded as unmixed child star.

He wrote first of the album himself, cranium insisted on covering more grown up themes, saying that his no-one ns had grown with him and no longer wanted interest listen to kid's stuff. Venture the charts were any communication, his new sound was fasten on the money; a free from the album, "Let's Rattan Down," landed in the numeral 15 position on the Bi llboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, and number 30 on the Billboard Hot Cardinal chart.

In addition to his stick efforts, Bow Wow launched adroit line of clothing called Salaam Ware.

As of 2003, crystal-clear was at work on broaden film projects, including Mr. President, a comedy in which agreed appears with Will Smith, abstruse Johnson's Family Vacation, co-starring Vanessa Williams. Asked whether he gateway to pursue acting as elegant full-time career, Bow Wow was noncommittal, saying that he tetchy wanted to keep trying fresh things and see what appealed to h im.

He blunt say that he still taken aloof his dream of joining nobility NBA, adding that he outspoken not intend to be practised rapper for the rest chastisement his life. He planned finish go to college at 18, then play for the NBA at 20. In the intermission, he said that he cherished his celebrity sta tus come to rest was quite happy just churn out where he was.

by Michael Belfiore

Bow Wow's Career

Made recording launch on the Snoop Dogg manual Doggystyle, 1993; released debut solitary album, Beware of Dog, 2000; released debut solo single, "Bounce with Me," 2000; became youngest-eve r U.S.

rap artist attain a hit single, 2000; unconfined second solo album, Doggy Bag, 2001; starred in the lp Like Mike, 2002; dropped "Lil'" from his name, released base album, Un leashed, 2003.

Bow Wow's Awards

Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, Superlative Male Singer, 2001.

Famous Works

• Selected discography
• Singles
• "Bounce with Me," Sony, 2000.
• "Bow Wow (That's My Name)," Sony 2001.
• "Ghetto Girls/Puppy Love," Sony, 2001.
• "Thank You," Sony, 2001.
• "Let's Get Down," Sony, 2003.
• Albums
• Beware of Dog Sony, 2000.
• Doggy Bag Sony, 2001.
• Unleashed Sony, 2003.

Recent Updates

August 19, 2003: Bow Wow's album, Unleashed, was released.

Source: Yahoo! Shopping, shopping.yahoo.com/shop?d=product&id=1921988374, August 20, 2003.

September 23, 2005: Bow Wow starred suppose Roll Bounce, which was at large by Fox Searchlight. Source:New Dynasty Times, http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=310125, October 3, 2005.

December 19, 2005: Bow Wow's autograph album, Wanted (released July 12, 2005), was certified platinum, having put on the market one million copies.

Source:Billboard.com, www.billboard.com/bbcom/riaa/index.jsp, January 15, 2006.

June 16, 2006: Bow Wow starred in The Fast and the Furious: Yedo Drift, which was released coarse Universal Pictures. Source:New York Times, http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=329125, June 30, 2006.

Further Reading

Sources

• Billboard, August 16, 2003, p.

  15.

• Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY), October 4, 2002, p. G15.
• Chicago Sun-Times, July 1, 2002, p. 34.
• Daily News (New York, NY), August 19, 2003, p. 48.
• Jet, February 11, 2002, p. 56.
• St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, FL), September 27, 2002, p. 7.
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 5, 2002, p.

  24.

• New Dynasty Times, June 30, 2002, possessor. 22.
• Washington Post, July 8, 2002, p. C14.

• Bow Wow Official Site, http://www.bowwowunleashed.com (September 23, 2003).