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Andre 3000 Biography
André
3000, Lauren bourgeois André Benjamin, (* May 27, 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American musician and film actor. He is a member of the hip-hop group OutKast and the Dirty South collective Dungeon Family.
André
3000 is mainly through his extravagant clothing style to his 2004 an award for "Best Dressed Man in the World" einbrachte. [1] As an avowed vegan, he was in the same year by the animal protection organization PETA Alicia Silverstone next to the "Sexiest Vegetarian Alive ". [2] In 2008 published a list of" 50 Greatest MCs of Our Time ", chosen by About.com, as evidenced André
3000 square 16 [3]
One of his pseudonyms include Possum Jenkins, Dookie Blossumgame III, André Benjamin and Johnny Vulture. Until the publication of Aquemini, he is instead simply Dre André
3000.
André
3000 was by his single mother raised in Atlanta and met his later band Big Boi colleagues during the school. 1994 the two published their first album and were from then on by the critics always high praise. Each of their albums received at least one platinum record, previously won six Grammys.
Together with singer Erykah Badu André
3000 has a 1997-born son. One of the greatest successes of the group OutKast, Ms. Jackson, discussed his failed relationship with Badu. At the 2003 released double album Speakerboxxx / The Love Below, a André half of
3000 alone, almost entirely written and produced. His album, The Love Below, came into the media paying more attention to the single hits Hey Ya! Roses and accounted for this part of the double album. Speakerboxxx / The Love Below was supported by all major German music magazines as one of the most important works of the year and is one of the world's most successful albums of this century.
Since 2005, he as an actor in appearance, inter alia, in addition to Be Cool John Travolta and Uma Thurman and four brothers alongside Mark Wahlberg. Together with Big Boi plays his first leading role in the musical film Idlewild. From 2006 to 2008 he shall designate the main character of the Emmy-winning cartoon series Class of
3000, the inventor and executive producer he was.
Following the publication of Idlewild devoted André
3000 again reinforced the centimes and was, inter alia, to songs from UGK and Devin the Dude, as well as remixes by Jay-Z and Rich Boy to hear. Despite the absence of its own let alone a single or album Mixtapes he was from MTV 2007 at 4, [4] 2008 ranked 9 [5] its list of "Hottest MCs In The Game".
He is currently working on his first official solo album and its own fashion line.
AliasesAndré has several aliases:
* "Cupid Valentino" (from the song "Happy Valentine's Day")
* "Dre" (his original moniker)
* "Ice Cold"
* "Possum Aloysius Jenkins"
* "Dookie (Blossumgame III)"
* The reversed, "Benjamin André"
* "Love Pusher"
* "Binhamin" (From the insert of ATLiens)(also shared by Producer Quebo Kuntry, whose real name is James Benjamin)
* "Johnny Vulture" (for example on Gwen Stefani's album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. which he produced and also appeared on the track "Bubble Pop Electric")
* "Funk Crusader"
* "Chamelio Salamander" (From the Sleepy Brown "I Can't Wait" music video)
* "3 Stacks"
* "Sunny Bridges" (Class of
3000)
* "André 3K" (Lil Wayne line from Tha Carter III)
Most of these names appear in the "Hey Ya" music video, where he and his doubles all have different names ("Johnny Vulture", "Dookie", "André (Ice Cold)
3000", "Possum Jenkins" and "Benjamin André"). Also, when asked his name by a phony police officer on Punk'd he calls himself Bill Bixby.
There is also an interlude track on the Outkast CD Stankonia, called D.F. (Interlude), where both
Andre 3000 and Big Boi list many of their numerous aliases.
Filmography * Hollywood Homicide (2003)....Silk Brown
* Be Cool (2005).....Dabu
* Four Brothers (2005).....Jeremiah Mercer
* L.A. Rush (2005 Video Game Voice)
* Volcano High.....Kim Yung Soo (voice)
* Revolver (2005)....Avi
* Idlewild (2006)....Percival
* Charlotte's Web (2006)...Elwyn the Crow (voice)
* Battle in Seattle (2007)....Django
* Semi-Pro (2008)....Clarence 'Coffee Black' Malone