Marques Houston

Marques Barrett Houston (born on August 4, 1981 in Los Angeles, CA) is an R&B singer and actor of African American descent.

History

In 1994, his first appearance was in House Party 3 along with Immature.

In 1996, he appeared in The Parent Hood.

In 2002, he started to sing with Omarion and other B2k members, J-Boog, Raz-B, and Lil Fizz. Houston introduced B2k, before IMx disbanded. B2k also appeared in the IMx video "Beautiful (You Are)".

In 2003, he performed the song called "That Girl" at Kids Choice Awards 2003, combined with B2k song "Girlfriend". He also appeared on Soul Train, 3rd Annual BET Awards, as presenter, Rock Me Baby, and The Sharon Osbourne Show.

In 2004, he came on Take It To The Streets, On-Air with Ryan Seacrest, The Wayne Brady Show, and 2004 MTV Movie Awards

In 2005, he was featured on an episode of Punk'd with Omarion. Omarion invited Houston to be part of the Punk'd episode about a pregnant woman. He was also on Dr. Phil, It's Showtime at the Apollo, Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out, Total Request Live, 106 & Park BET's Top 10 Live, and All Shades of Fine: 25 Hottest Women of the Past 25 Years.

Acting career

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Bebe's Kids

In 1992, Houston was featured on Bebe's Kids as the voice actor for the character named Kahill. Houston and his Bandmates from Immature also sang the title song "Tear It Up (On Our Worst Behavior)" which is featured on Immature's debut album.

In 1993, he appeared on a two part episode of A Different World with his fellow group mates Jerome "Romeo Jones and Don "Half Pint" Santos, of Immature. The episode centered around the character Whitley's first day as a teacher and Immature played 3 rowdy children that give her a hard time.

In 1994, Houston played the role of "Roger Evans" on the TV series Sister, Sister. It was a running gag in the series for any other character to become frustrated and yell "Go Home! Roger!". As the Roger character, he often meant well but ended up annoying the twins, whom he pined for during each episode. Then Houston left the series in 1998 to focus on his music career.

In 1997, he appeared on Good Burger as the actor name Jake.

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Sister, Sister

In 2001, he was the protagonist in the direct-to-video film House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute, along with IMx bandmates.

In 2004, he appeared with Omarion of the group B2k, in the movie You Got Served as Elgin. Houston also appeared on Fat Albert as Dumb Donald.

In 2006, he starred as Kevin Barnes in the sitcom Cuts, a spinoff of One on One.

He will appear with Omarion in the horror movie, Somebody Help Me on March 16, 2007.

Also, in 2008, he will be a star on "You Got Served 2" with Omarion.

Music career

In 1991, Houston also sang with his childhood friends, Jerome "Romeo" Jones and Kelton "LDB" Kessee in the group Immature. Chris Stokes became the manager of the group. They first started with the band called Immature.

In 1992, They released their debut album entitled On Our Worst Behavior. The original members were Marques "Batman" Houston, Jerome "Romeo" Jones and Don "Half Pint" Santos. The album met with dismal sales and Don "Half Pint" Santos left the group due to the demands of his parents. After being discovered by Marques "Batman" Houston, Kelton "LDB" Kessee joined Immature. His name "LDB" (Little Drummer Boy) comes from his skills with the drums.

After regrouping, they released their sophomore album in 1994, entitled Playtime Is Over. Then they released their studio album called We Got It in 1995. Immature's last release was called The Journey and was released in 1997.

In 1998 The group later changed their name to IMx, because they felt they had matured personally and musically. They released their 1999 album, entitled Introducing IMx. IMx last release was their 2001 album, entitled IMx.

In 2002, IMx mutually disbanded because the members wanted to move on and do different things creatively. Houston inked a record deal with TUG/Universal records and embarked upon his journey of becoming a relevant R&B soloist. Houston release his first single off from his debut album, "That Girl".

In 2003, Houston recorded and released his first solo album entitled MH. The singles were "Clubbin" and "Pop That Booty (Ft. Jermaine Dupri)". Houston also appeared on Scream Tour with Nick Cannon, B2K, and Bow Wow.

In 2004, he released one last single from that album; "Because of You". This single was released as the sprung-2004 song. He was also featured on Young Rome's song/video "After Party" and with Omarion.

In 2005, Houston released his second solo effort entitled Naked. The singles from that album were "All Because of You (Ft. Young Rome)", "Naked", and "Sex With You". He was also featured on 50 Cent's remix to the hit single "Candy Shop".

In 2006 he released the first single from his third solo album, "Favorite Girl" and the Accompanying video, featuring Stacey Dash. He was also featured in his fellow T.U.G. artist, Mila J's video/song "Good Lookin' Out" and on Yung Joc's video/song "1st Time" and with Trey Songz.

In 2007, Houston, released the official second single, "Circle" and the music video debuted on Yahoo! Music and BET's Access Granted.

On March 20, 2007, Houston released his third studio album entitled Veteran. It was supposed to come out in November 2006, but the release date was pushed back to give Houston time to grieve after the death of his grandmother. On March 30, 2007 according to the music charts on www.billboard.com Marques Houston's album Veteran was the number one R&B album in the country; also number 5 on the Hot 100 chart

Albums

Release	Album Cover	Title
October 21, 2003		MH
May 24, 2005		Naked
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Singles

Singles

Year	Song	U.S. Hot 100	U.S. R&B	Rhythmic 40	UK	Album
2002	"That Girl"	63	24	2	-	MH
2003	"Clubbin"	39	12	40	15	MH
2003	"Pop That Booty" (featuring Jermaine Dupri	76	34	29	23	MH
2004	"Because of You"	-	-	-	51	MH
2005	"All Because of You" (featuring Young Rome)	69	14	-	-	Naked
2005	"Naked"	47	8	36	-	Naked
2005	"Sex With You"	-	64	-	-	Naked
2006	"Favorite Girl"	-	56	-	-	Veteran
2007	"Circle"	78	37	-	-	Veteran
2007	"Wonderful"	TBR	TBR	TBR	TBR	Veteran

Filmography

Years	Films	Roles
1990	ABC TGIF	Roger
1992	Bébé's Kids	Kahill (Voice)
1993	A Different World
1994	Sister Sister	Roger Evans
1997	Good Burger	Jake
2001	House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute	Jon-Jon
2003	The Center	Host
2003	American Dreams
2004	One on One	Kevin
2004	You Got Served	Elgin
2004	Fat Albert	Dumb Donald
2005	Cuts	Kevin Barnes
2007	Somebody Help Me	Brendan

Trivia

• He is the cousin to the B2k former member, J-Boog
• He is close to both Omarion and O'Ryan
• He is a good friend with his former bandmate, Young Rome

External links

• Template:MySpace
• TUG Official Site