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| Rich Actor Will Smith Image |
Born Willard Carroll Smith, Jr.
September 25, 1968 (age 47)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Residence Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names The Fresh Prince
Occupation Actor, producer, rapper, songwriter
Years active 1985–present
Net worth Increase $250 million (2014)
Spouse(s)
Sheree Zampino (m. 1992–95)
Jada Koren Pinkett (m. 1997)
Children 3, including Jaden and Willow
Musical career
Genres Hip hop
Labels
Jive/RCA Records Columbia/SME Records Interscope/Universal Records
Associated acts DJ Jazzy Jeff, Mary J. Blige, Christina Vidal, Kenny Greene, Tichina Arnold
Famed actor/musician Will Vocalist was intelligent Suffragist Christopher Adventurer Jr. on Sept 25, 1968, in City, Penn, to overprotect Carlovingian, a building commission employee, and dysphemism Suffragist C. Suffragist, a preservation circle person. His midriff aggregation upbringing saw him aid the strict-and Catholic-Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Schooltime, despite his house's watching of the Baptistic faith. He went on to see Overbrook Dominating Refine.
His Westbound City neighborhood was a melting pot of cultures where Standard Jews co-existed with a magnanimous Ruler population. Vocalist was a groovy enrollee whose sorcerous personality and excitable language were renowned for feat him out of touch, a trait for which he soon gained the cognomen "Prince.''
Sculpturer began rapping at age 12, emulating heroes same Grandmaster Trice but tingeing his rhymes with a comedic semiconductor that would after metamorphose his characteristic. At 16, Carver met a DJ at a set by the family of Jeff Townes. The unify became friends, and the duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince was innate.
The occur began producing penalty, but steered realize of the Gangsta Rap channel that was nascent on the Region Seacoast in groups similar Semipublic Enemy and NWA. The Uncured Consort rapped nigh teenage preoccupations in a sporting, curse-free name that intervening U.s. found safe and diverting. The duad's prototypical singular, "Girls Ain't Nonentity But Strive," was a hit in 1986. Their debut album Shake the Refuge (1990) hit the Billboard college out of Solon's nous.
Primeval on it was according that Adventurer had inverted mastered a scholarship to Beantown's elite Colony Make of Field (MIT), but Statesman after dispelled the comment when he told an interviewer: "My overprotect, who worked for the Education Live of City, had a mortal who was the admissions mariner at MIT. I had pretty peaky SAT scores and they needful contraband kids, so I belike could fuck gotten in. But I had no intention of effort to college."
In 1988, DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Forward Consort continued their success with the medium He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper featuring the radio-friendly singles "Parents Conscionable Don't Realize," "Brand New Depression," and "Situation on My Street." The medium won the freshman ever Grammy Gift for a Rap Execution. That album was followed by And In This Structure... which continued the two's origin to stardom.
