Algee Smith

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Algee Smith (2016)

Algee Smith (born November 7, 1994 in Saginaw , Michigan ) is an American actor and singer.

Life

Algee Smith grew up in Saginaw, his hometown. He has younger brothers and a younger sister. His father, Algee Smith III, is a guitarist and performs under the stage name John Eley. In 2008/09 Smith's father accompanied Bobby Brown , Johnny Gill and Ralph Tresvant on a concert tour. His mother is a fashion designer.

Smith attended Kempton Elementary School in Saginaw. At the age of eight he moved with his family to Atlanta ( Georgia ). He had been devoted to music from an early age and began writing his own rap lyrics at the age of nine . When he was eleven, Smith recorded his first song. In 2007 he joined the Christian youth music group KF2 , whereupon public appearances a. a. in New York's Madison Square Garden . In the winter of 2010, Smith released a cover version of the Donny Hathaway song This Christmas , which was also played on the radio.

Although Smith unsuccessfully for the singing competition The Next BIG Thing of Radio Disney had applied, he received in 2012 the supporting role of the Da Boss in the Disney Channel Original Movie Let It Shine - Show them what you can! . In the same year he was represented with guest roles in individual episodes of the series Army Wives and How to Rock . Thereupon Smith appeared regularly as an actor in addition to his musician ambitions. He made his cinema debut with a small role in the science fiction adventure film Earth to Echo - An Adventure as Big as the Universe (2014), where he was shown in the credits as "Alga Smith". He moved to Los Angeles at the age of 20 .

In 2017, Smith starred in the TV miniseries The New Edition Story , which takes on the rise of the R&B band New Edition . He took on the role of the adult Ralph Tresvant , with whom his father had played concerts himself. His first major film role followed in the same year in Kathryn Bigelow's feature film Detroit (2017). In the drama about the race riot in Detroit in 1967 , Smith can be seen as the ambitious Motown up-and- coming singer Larry Reed, who gets away with his life in a police raid but threatens to break as a result of what happened. According to his own statements, the actor and singer had little detailed knowledge of the 1967 riots, even though he grew up near Detroit. Director Bigelow took advantage of this: “[...] I didn't - I tried not to think much. And I feel like that's what helped. Kathryn specifically took us to a place we weren't - we were unprepared. And I feel like it helped just to be authentic - just get authentic responses in those scenes and not think about them too much […], ”said Smith. Together with the real Larry Reed he recorded the song Grow for the soundtrack .

As a musician, Smith is drawn to hip-hop , R&B and urban music . Online he published u. a. the single She Say (2013) and the EP lists (2017). In early 2017 he was signed by the Creative Artists Agency (CAA). At the same time he is managed by his father.

Algee Smith lives in Los Angeles with his parents and four of his siblings.

Filmography

Discography (selection)

EPs

  • Lists (2017)

Singles

  • This Christmas (2010)
  • She Say (2013)
  • You Ain't Goin Home (2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d profile at reverbnation.com (English; accessed on July 24, 2017).
  2. ↑ a b Kathryn Bigelow's 'Detroit' Revisits An American Tragedy: The Algiers Motel Incident . NPR Weekend All Things Considered, July 22, 2017, Show: Weekend All Things Considered 7:00 PM EST (accessed via Nexis database ).
  3. ↑ a b c d Saginaw native Algee Smith lets it shine on the Disney Channel . MLive.com; accessed on July 24, 2017
  4. ↑ a b Saginaw native Algee Smith brings New Edition role to life . MLive.com; accessed on July 24, 2017
  5. ↑ a b c d Algee Smith, Detroit's Magnetic Breakout, Has Swag to Spare . Vanity fair; accessed on September 22, 2017
  6. ↑ Algee Smith Signs With CAA . Deadline; accessed on July 24, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Algee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Saginaw , Michigan