Biography on lil bow wow

His success has been attributed to both his personal charisma — he reminded some observers of the young Michael Jackson — and to his purely musical talents. He was a middle child, a brother between two sisters. By the time he was three it was clear that Shad the name still used by his friends was something special, and his mother began to enter him in talent shows around the Columbus area.

He began performing under the name of Kid Gangsta. He remained a strong student in school, having won a junior-high-level award from the Ohio Interscholastic Writing League.

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With the hip-hop sections of CD stores featuring a sea of parental warning stickers, the move was a brilliant one. When he undertook his Scream tour, accurately named in view of the reactions his appearances elicited from teenage girls, tickets for major venues sold out in less than an hour. The rapper generally lapped up the attention, but occasionally seemed a bit overwhelmed.

The song landed the youngster in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest rapper to have a number one hit. He also performed with superstar Madonna at the beginning of the Grammy awards. That album, released a week before Christmas in , reportedly sold over a million copies by early February of , and seemed well on its way to equaling or eclipsing the sales of its predecessor.

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The rapper played an orphan who finds a magic pair of athletic shoes that might once have belonged to basketball superstar Michael Jordan. I have a street named after me. San Diego Union-Tribune, April 19, , p. Cite this article Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. January 8, Retrieved January 08, from Encyclopedia.