Cee Lo Green Biography

CeeLo Green, a multi-talented rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur was born on May 30, 1974 as Thomas DeCarlo Callaway. His parents were ordained ministers. Green’s father passed away when he was just two years old and his mother, Sheila J. Tyler, who was a firefighter, died when he was 18 after she was paralyzed for two years due to a car accident.

During CeeLo he was in a deep depression after the death of his mother and just started his music career with Goodie Mob. Later, she wrote and sang her sufferings throughout her career on songs like Goodie Mob’s ‘Free’, St. Elsewhere’s ‘Just a Thought’ and ‘She Knows’ and ‘A Little Better’, both in The Odd Couple. On the Goodie Mob album Soul Food, Green included a song about her mother called “Guess Who.”

In CEE Lo Green ‘s documentary, produced by Absolut Vodka and The Fader, he explained that his successful career is down to his mother, saying that it led him to “cross that threshold into a career.” He is American by nationality and belongs to the black ethnicity.

CEE Lo Gree was educated at Riverside Military Academy, an all-boys academic status in Gainesville. He started singing at a very young age and sang in Church. In his early career, he initially joined an Atlanta hip hop group called the Goodie Mob and Green was the youngest member. The group was part of the rap collective The Dungeon Family, which also included Outkast. In 1995, the Goodie Mob released their first album Soul Food, and their works were praised by critics as the advancement of southern rap music.

CeeLo Green provided backing vocals for TLC’s ‘Waterfalls.’ In 1998, the Goodie Mob’s second album Still Standing was released, which also received positive responses. The following year, the group released World Party, to become their third album. In the fall of 1999, Green left the Goodie Mob and decided to go solo under Arista Records, Inc. while the other member continued under the same name with Koch Records. Although they are separated, they still collaborate on the Dungeon Family album Even in Darkness. On Santana’s Supernatural album, Green was one of ten contributing guest musicians in 1999. Lauryn Hill and Green provided lead vocals on “Do You Like The Way,” written by Lauryn Hill.

CEE Lo Green Arista Records’ career did not last long and was dropped after two albums due to poor sales. In 2000 his debut album ‘Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections’ was backed by many other Dungeon Family members. Although the album sold up to expectations, its single ‘Closet Freak’ achieved some airplay.

CeeLo Green’s Arista’s second album ‘Cee-Lo…Is the Soul Machine’ was released in 2004 and this album was more successful than the first. This is undoubtedly due to the collaboration of famous hip hop stars like Pharell Williams, TI AND Ludacris. The album received positive reviews and was described as ‘one of the most ambitious albums of any genre in recent memory. and it was ranked number two on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

DJ Danger Mouse and Green met at the University of Georgia event and later collaborated and formed a duo called Gnarls Barkley. The duo worked together on songs like ‘What U Sittin On? (remix) and Benzie Box, from the Danger Doom album The Mouse and The Mask (2005). On April 24, 2006, Gnarls Barkley’s debut album St. Elsewhere was released in the UK and later in the US on May 2, 2006. According to Rolling Stone, the album and its single ‘ Crazy’ charted at number 1 in the UK according to technology downloads. In March 2008, the duo’s second album The Odd Couple was released, while the first single Run (I’m a Natural Disaster) was released in January.

On August 14, 2010 CEE Lo Green released the single ‘Fuck You’ on YouTube and it made a viral hit and later in September Green released a music video for the song. ‘Fuck You’ peaked at No. 1 on the UK charts, where the song knocked out the Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow collaboration ‘Shame’, creating 2 million streams in less than a week. For which Green earned a Grammy Award nomination in December 2010 and was certified Gold in the United States and Denmark. Fuck off!

CeeLo Green released his debut mixtape titled ‘Stray Bullets’ in October 2010. During 2010 and 2011, Green toured with Scarlet Fever, an all-female backing band who played Taratata on the BBC’s Late Show with David Letterman, Saturday Night Live, W’s Symmetry Live Concert. Series, Jimmy Kimmel Live! And much much more.

On August 14, 2011, Green performed ‘Forget You’ and ‘Bright Light, Bigger City’ at WWE SummerSlam. The same year, she performed at the 2011 Billboard Music Award.

In November 2011, CEE Lo Green re-released The Lady Killer as a platinum edition and the album contains 16 original tracks. Green wrote and recorded ‘Language of Love’ for the soundtrack to the American romantic comedy ‘Sex and the City 2’. In March 2012, she performed ‘Fuck You’ at the Barack Obama fundraiser. In September 2012, Green released a song “I Love Football” to the tune of the Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop” and it was chosen as the theme song for Thursday Night Football by the NFL.

CEE Lo Green, with the Goodie Mob member, had minor roles in the 1999 film Mystery Men, as the part of the Not So Goodie Mob member, in which he played Thomas Burton aka Cee Lo. He has also provided the voice for Prime Cut Miggity-Mo’ Macdaddy Gizzabang Doggy Dog in the Brak Show episode in 2002, Godzilla in the Robot Chicken 2007 episodes ‘Squaw Burry Shortcut’. Green also credits his voice, including Class of the 3000’s Christmas Special as Frank and Buddy Z, in Boondocks as Rev. Rollo Goodlove and 2008’s The Hunger Strike.

CEE Lo Green served as a judge and coach for the reality singing television show ‘The Voice’, from season one to season three and retired as a coach in season five. He also made an appearance on the NBC show’s season 3 episode of Parenthood Tales From the Luncheonette as a guest star. He also appeared as himself in the American Dad episode Hot Water. Green with Madona appeared at the Super Bowl halftime show on February 5, 2012. On March 31, 2012, Green appeared at the 2012 Kids’ Choice Awards.

In the year 2013 on May 23-24, he performed at the Singapore Social Star Awards. On June 23, 2014, Green debuted on TBS with her new CeeLo Green reality-based docu-comedy television series, The Good Life, in which she appears alongside the other members of the Goodie Mob. On September 6, 2014, TBS said they would be canceling the show at the start of Green’s controversial comments about the rape.

In addition to Green’s successful career, he described himself as a ‘thug’ during his youth and also as a ‘kleptomaniac, arsonist too, a simple maniac. He was once married to Christina Johnson but divorced in 2005. He and Johnson shared a son named Kingston (born September 30, 2000) and Green was stepfather to two daughters named Sierra and Kalah. Her stepdaughter Sierra was cast in the MTV show My Super Sweet 16, during her 16th birthday.

Cee Lo Green’s involvement in the music industry has brought the world of music to a whole new level. You can follow her on various social networking sites and pull her bio from other websites as well. In late 2015, PEOPLE revealed that Green is engaged to her partner/long-time girlfriend Shani James. His talent has showered him with a net worth of $20 million with a handsome salary.

During the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April 2011, Green was on the venue 25 minutes late, performing five songs, including Fuck You! And crazy. Although her performance was scheduled to end at 5:40, but at 5:44 her microphone was cut off as she apologized to the audience and left the stage in anger.

Managed by Primary Wave Entertainment, Green has recommended several brands including M&M’s, 7 Up, and Duracell. Green owns part of the TY KU sake brand and the company has worked with him on several business ventures, including a commercial promoting the brand, called the ‘first national sake commercial’ in the United States. In 2011, the New York Times Reporter estimated that Green earned around $20 million dollars, mostly from endorsement deals, in that year alone.