Donald McKinley Glover Jr. ( give birth September 25, 1983 ), besides known by the stage name Childish Gambino, is an american actor, rapper, singer, writer, comedian, director, and producer. After working on Derrick Comedy while studying at New York University, Glover was hired at historic period 23 by Tina Fey as a writer for the NBC situation comedy 30 Rock. He late rose to fame for portraying college student Troy Barnes on the NBC situation comedy Community from 2009 to 2014. Since 2016, Glover stars in the FX series Atlanta, which he created and occasionally directs. [ 1 ] For his solve on Atlanta, Glover won versatile accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards [ 2 ] and two Golden Globe Awards. [ 3 ] Glover has starred in several successful films, including the supernatural horror The Lazarus Effect ( 2015 ), the comedy-drama Magic Mike XXL ( 2015 ), and science fabrication film The Martian ( 2015 ). He played Aaron Davis in the superhero film Spider-Man: Homecoming ( 2017 ), and played Lando Calrissian in the Space Western Solo: A Star Wars Story ( 2018 ). [ 4 ] He besides provided the voice of adult Simba in The Lion King ( 2019 ). [ 5 ] A film maker, Glover starred in and produced the short movie Guava Island ( 2019 ). [ 6 ]
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Following independently released albums and mixtapes, Glover signed with Glassnote Records in 2011, [ 7 ] and released his first studio album, Camp, that year ; [ 8 ] he followed this with his moment album, Because the Internet, in 2013. [ 9 ] Glover ‘s third album, “Awaken, My Love!” ( 2016 ), spawned the single “ Redbone “, which peaked at number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100 [ 10 ] and finally earned him his foremost Grammy Award. [ 11 ] In 2018, Glover released “ This Is America “, which debuted at number-one on the Hot 100, [ 12 ] and won four Grammy Awards, including for Best Music Video. [ 13 ] Glover ‘s fourthly album, 3.15.20, was released in 2020. [ 14 ]
early biography [edit ]
Donald McKinley Glover Jr. [ 15 ] was born at Edwards Air Force Base in Edwards, California, on September 25, 1983, [ 16 ] where his founder was stationed, and was raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia. His mother, Beverly ( née Smith ), [ 17 ] is a put out daycare provider, and his beget, Donald Glover Sr., was a postal worker. [ 15 ] [ 18 ] His parents besides served as foster parents for 14 years. Glover was raised as a Jehovah ‘s Witness. [ 16 ] [ 19 ] His youthful brother, Stephen, would subsequently become a writer and producer who collaborates with him. [ 20 ] He besides has a sister named Brianne. [ 18 ] Glover attended Avondale High School and DeKalb School of the Arts, and was voted “ Most probably to Write for The Simpsons “ in his high school yearbook. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] In 2006, he graduated from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Dramatic Writing. [ 23 ] While at Tisch, he self-produced the independent mixtape The Younger I Get, which was never released and was by and by disowned by Glover for being the “ too-raw ramblings ” of what he calls a “ creaky Drake “. [ 24 ] He besides began DJing and producing electronic music under the nickname MC D ( by and by as mcDJ ) [ 25 ] remixing Sufjan Stevens ‘ album Illinois ( 2005 ). [ 26 ]
career [edit ]
2006–2010 : Derrick Comedy, Community, and mixtapes [edit ]
In 2006, Glover caught the care of manufacturer David Miner, to whom he sent writing samples including a specification handwriting that he had written for The Simpsons. [ 27 ] Miner and Tina Fey were impressed by Glover ‘s work and hired him to become a writer for the NBC situation comedy 30 Rock. [ 18 ] [ 22 ] From 2006 to 2009 Glover wrote for 30 Rock, in which he besides had casual cameo appearances. [ 28 ] He and his co-writers were presented with the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Series in 2008 for his work on the third season. [ 29 ] In 2008, Glover unsuccessfully auditioned to play President Barack Obama on the sketch comedy course of study Saturday Night Live ; [ 30 ] the character went to cast penis Fred Armisen. [ 31 ] While attending NYU, Glover besides became a extremity of the sketch drollery group Derrick Comedy, [ 32 ] having appeared in their sketches on YouTube since 2006, along with Dominic Dierkes, Meggie McFadden, DC Pierson, and Dan Eckman. The group wrote and starred in a feature-length film, Mystery Team, a comedy about amateurish adolescent detectives ; it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. [ 33 ] With a limited release, the fans requested the movie in their local theaters. [ 34 ]
Community at Glover at a panel forat PaleyFest 2010 Glover starred as former high school athlete Troy Barnes on Dan Harmon ‘s NBC situation comedy Community, which premiered in September 2009. [ 35 ] Glover did not return as a full-time cast extremity for the picture ‘s one-fifth season, appearing alone in the first five episodes. [ 36 ] Despite speculation that he was leaving to pursue his rap career, a series of hand-written notes that Glover posted to Instagram revealed that his reasons were more personal, citing a necessitate for projects that offered him more independence as he worked through some personal issues. [ 37 ] Although Harmon approached Glover about returning to the indicate for its sixth season, Glover declined, feeling that his character ‘s return would not serve the display, the audience, or himself as an actor. [ 38 ] Glover ‘s stage name, Childish Gambino, which he used to start his musical career, came from a Wu-Tang Clan name generator. [ 39 ] In June 2008, he released the autonomous mixtape Sick Boi. [ 24 ] In September 2009, he released his second mixtape Poindexter. [ 24 ] A pair of mixtapes titled I Am Just a Rapper and I Am Just A Rapper 2, were released in close succession in 2010, and Culdesac, his third gear mixtape, was released in July of that year. [ 40 ] In March 2010, Glover performed a 30-minute set on the stand-up case program Comedy Central Presents. [ 41 ] In May 2010, a fan suggested Glover for the function of Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man film, encouraging his supporters to retweet the hashtag “ # donald4spiderman ”. [ 42 ] The campaign sparked a viral answer on Twitter. [ 43 ] The call for Glover to audition for the function was supported by Spider-Man godhead Stan Lee. [ 44 ] however, Glover did not audition, and the function went to Andrew Garfield. He later revealed that he was never contacted by Sony Pictures. Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis, who announced Miles Morales, an african-american version of Spider-Man, a year belated, said he had conceived of the character before Glover ‘s crusade went viral. [ 45 ] Bendis gave credit to Glover for influencing the raw hero ‘s looks for Spider-Man ; Bendis said, “ I saw him in the costume [ on Community ] and thought, ‘I would like to read that book. ‘ ” [ 46 ] Glover by and by voiced this incarnation of Spider-Man on the Ultimate Spider-Man animate series. [ 47 ] Glover received the Rising Comedy Star prize at the Just for Laughs festival in July 2010, and was featured in Gap ‘s 2010 vacation advertise campaign. [ 48 ] [ 49 ]
2011–2014 : Camp and Because the Internet [edit ]
His inaugural extended play, titled EP, was released as a free digital download in March 2011. [ 50 ] A music video for the song “ Freaks and Geeks ” was released in that calendar month and Glover hosted the MTVU Woodie Awards at South By Southwest. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] Glover commenced his countrywide IAMDONALD Tour in April. [ 51 ] The tour was a one-man live show that consisted of rap, drollery, and television segments. [ 51 ] [ 18 ] Glover appeared at the 2011 Bonnaroo Music Festival as both Childish Gambino and as a comedian, performing a located with Bill Bailey. [ 53 ] His one-hour stand-up limited, Weirdo, aired on Comedy Central in November 2011. [ 54 ] For his 2011 debut studio album, Glover approached Community’ s seduce composer, Ludwig Göransson for production aid ; Göransson has become his most patronize collaborator. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] Prior to its release, Glover signed with Glassnote Records and embarked on The Sign-Up Tour. [ 57 ] The album titled Camp, was released on November 15, 2011, backed by his debut single “ Bonfire “ and “ Heartbeat “, which peaked at total eighteen on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles and number fifty-four on Hot R & B/Hip-Hop Songs. [ 58 ] Camp debuted at number eleven on the Billboard 200, selling 52,000 copies in the inaugural workweek, [ 59 ] and was generally well received by critics, [ 60 ] with PopMatters writer Steve Lepore finding it to be “ undoubtedly one of the best records of any genre to come out in 2011 ”. [ 61 ] His Camp Gambino go was scheduled to commence in March 2012, [ 62 ] but was postponed to April after he fractured his foot. [ 63 ] Glover released the songs “ Eat Your Vegetables ” and “ Fuck Your Blog ” through his web site in April and May 2012. [ 64 ] Throughout May and June, he premiered tracks from his sixth mixtape, Royalty, which was released as a free digital download in July. The album featured several artists, including his buddy Stephen, under the alias Steve G. Lover III. [ 65 ] The individual “ disturb “ by british artist Leona Lewis from her album Glassheart ( 2012 ) featured Gambino with a guest rap performance. The song peaked at number seven on the UK Singles Chart, making it his first UK Top 10 single. [ 66 ] In November 2012, Göransson stated that he and Glover were in the studio generating new ideas for the next album which was to be “ bigger ” and “ with more people involved. ” [ 67 ] In 2013, Glover signed a deal to create a music-themed show for FX titled Atlanta, in which he would star, write, and serve as an executive manufacturer. [ 68 ] Although several networks were concern in picking up his half-hour drollery, he chose FX ascribable to their willingness to work around his tour schedule. [ 68 ] Glover had a corroborate function in the romantic comedy The To Do List ( 2013 ), which performed below expectations, and besides guest starred in two episodes of the comedy-drama television series Girls in early 2013, as a Republican who is the brief sleep together interest to Lena Dunham ‘s character. [ 69 ] [ 70 ]
His second studio album, Because the Internet, finished recording in October 2013 and was released in December, [ 71 ] [ 72 ] debuting at number seven on the Billboard 200 chart. [ 58 ] Because the Internet yielded the singles “ 3005 “, “ Crawl “ and “ Sweatpants “. “ 3005 ” peaked at number eight on the UK R & B Chart and sixty-four on the Billboard Hot 100. [ 58 ] To promote the album, Glover wrote a short film Clapping for the Wrong Reasons which stars himself, Chance the Rapper, and Danielle Fishel among others. Directed by Hiro Murai, it was released prior the album ‘s release and serves as its prelude. additionally, a 72-page screenplay designed to sync up with the album was besides released. [ 73 ] The Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) certified “ Heartbeat ” aureate for shipping 500,000 copies in June 2014 – making it Glover ‘s first Gold certificate. [ 74 ] Because The Internet was besides certified Gold. [ 75 ] From February to May 2014, he embarked on The Deep Web Tour. [ 76 ] Glover directed the music television for the birdcall “ The pressure “ by Jhené Aiko, whose former single, “ Bed Peace “, had featured a guest appearance by him. [ 77 ] On October 2, he released a mixtape titled STN MTN and the following day an EP titled Kauai, which spawned the single “ Sober “. While STN MTN was a detached download, the proceeds of Kauai went to law enforcement policies, care and preservation of Kauai island. [ 78 ] Glover described them as a joint plan and the “ beginning concept mixtape ever ” that continues the story told in Camp and Because the Internet. [ 79 ] At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, Glover received his first Grammy nominations in Best Rap Album for Because the Internet and Best Rap Performance for “ 3005 ”. [ 9 ]
2015–17 : film roles, Atlanta, and “Awaken, My Love!” [edit ]
Glover appeared in three films in 2015. In The Lazarus Effect, he played a scientist working with a team of researchers who bring dead people spinal column to life with black consequences. [ 80 ] Next, Glover played a singer in the comedy-drama Magic Mike XXL and performed a cover of the Bruno Mars sung “ Marry You “ in the film, which was included in the soundtrack. [ 81 ] His one-third publish that year was Ridley Scott ‘s skill fabrication adaptation The Martian, featuring Glover as a Jet Propulsion Laboratory astrodynamicist who helps rescue an astronaut, played by Matt Damon, stranded on Mars. [ 82 ] Glover contributed to the soundtrack of Creed ( 2015 ), a film in the Rocky film series, providing vocals to the song “ Waiting For My Moment ” and co-writing another titled “ Breathe ”. [ 83 ] After being in exploitation since August 2013, FX ordered the Atlanta series in December 2014, announcing a 10-episode season in October 2015, which premiered on September 6, 2016 to widespread critical acclaim. [ 84 ] [ 85 ] [ 86 ] Glover writes, occasionally directs, executive produces, and stars in the serial as Earnest “ Earn ” Marks, a Princeton dropout who manages his rapper cousin as they navigate through the Atlanta tap view. [ 87 ] For his work on the show, Glover has earned assorted accolades, including Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy and Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, making him the beginning black person to win an Emmy for the latter class. [ 3 ] [ 88 ] [ 89 ] ascribable to the success of the series, FX signed Glover to an single cope to write and produce more shows for the network. The first gear of these shows was an inspire series featuring the Marvel Comics character Deadpool, which was set to premiere in 2018 but was former canceled due to creative differences. [ 90 ] [ 91 ] Glover late posted an unofficial and unproduced script to his Twitter report, stating he was n’t “ excessively busy to work on Deadpool, ” ending media meditation. [ 92 ] In September 2016, Glover held three musical performances, known as the “ Pharos Experience ”, in Joshua Tree, California, where he debuted songs from his one-third studio album “Awaken, My Love!”. [ 93 ] The album was officially released in December, charting at act five on the Billboard 200 and was by and by certified platinum accumulating 1,000,000 attest units. [ 94 ] [ 58 ] [ 75 ] It was considered a bold passing from his usual rap style as it chiefly featured Glover singing quite than rapping, and saw him draw influences from psychedelic person, funk and R & B music, [ 95 ] [ 96 ] particularly of the funk band Funkadelic. [ 97 ] “Awaken, My Love!” produced the singles “ Me and Your Mama “, “ redbone “ ( which peaked at number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100 ), and “ Terrified “. [ 10 ] Its vinyl release featured a virtual world headset and an accompanying app that allowed owners to access virtual reality survive performances from the Pharos Experience. [ 98 ] The album was positively received by music critics and was nominated for both the 2018 Grammy Award for Album of the class and Best Urban Contemporary Album, while “ Redbone ” won Best Traditional R & B Performance and received nominations for record of the year and Best R & B Song. [ 99 ] [ 100 ] Glover performed “ Terrified ” at the award show ‘s sixtieth ceremony. [ 101 ] In 2017, Glover appeared as criminal Aaron Davis in the superhero movie Spider-Man: Homecoming ( 2017 ). Davis is the uncle of the Miles Morales adaptation of Spider-Man, whom Glover had voiced in the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series. The cast was described as “ a storm cover for fans ” by the film ‘s conductor Jon Watts, mindful of his 2010 campaign to portray the superhero. [ 102 ] In April 2017, Time named Glover in its annual “ 100 Most influential People in the World. ” Tina Fey wrote the entrance for Glover, stating that he “ embodies his generation ‘s impression that people can be whatever they want and change what it is they want, at any time. ” [ 103 ]
Glover announced his intention to retire the Childish Gambino stage mention in June 2017, telling the consultation at Governors Ball Music Festival, “ I ‘ll see you for the last Gambino album ” before walking off stage. [ 104 ] He farther explained his decision in an consultation, feeling his musical career was no longer “ necessary ” and added “ There ‘s nothing worse than like a third sequel ” and “ I like it when something ‘s full and when it comes back there ‘s a reason to come back, there ‘s a reason to do that. ” [ 105 ]
2018–present : “ This Is America ” and 3.15.20 [edit ]
Glover wrote for SNL and signed with RCA Records in January 2018, which Glover called “ a necessary change of pace ”. [ 106 ] [ 107 ] In May 2018, he released a unmarried titled “ This Is America “ while performing as both host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live. [ 107 ] The song debuted at act one, becoming both Glover ‘s first number one and acme ten-spot unmarried in the United States. [ 108 ] It features him singing and rapping, drawing influence from trap music. [ 109 ] The lyrics addressed a kind of topics including gun ferocity and being black in the United States, [ 110 ] while its controversial video recording, directed by japanese film maker and frequent collaborator Hiro Murai, showed Glover with a firearm tear at a choir. [ 111 ] “ This is America ” won the Grammy for Song of the Year, Best Music Video, Best Rap/Sung Performance and Record of the year, becoming the first rap song to win the latter. [ 112 ] [ 113 ]
While filming Atlanta’ second second gear season, Glover portrayed a young version of Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story ( 2018 ), causing him to miss appearances in some episodes ; Calrissian was previously played by Billy Dee Williams in two films in the original Star Wars trilogy. [ 114 ] Despite the film ‘s churning production and poor box agency returns, Glover ‘s performance was praised, particularly by critic Stephanie Zacharek for his “ boisterous, charismatic elegance ”. [ 115 ] [ 116 ] [ 117 ] In July 2018, Glover released the Summer Pack extended bid containing the songs “ Summertime Magic “ and “ Feels Like Summer “, the former of which was primitively meant to be the lead one from Glover ‘s approaching fourth studio album. [ 118 ] [ 119 ] “ Summertime Magic ” debuted at forty-four on the Billboard Hot 100. [ 120 ] Glover began his fifth concert tour, This Is America Tour in September, announcing it would be his end during its opening display in Atlanta. [ 121 ] Two previously unreleased songs, “ Algorhythm ” and “ All Night ”, were made entirely available to fans who bought tickets to the tour. [ 122 ] In February 2018, Glover approached New Regency, without a script, about a project he would like to work on while he had a unblock fourth dimension between Solo promotional duties and his This Is America Tour. Due to his previous achiever, they accepted his offer quickly and Amazon Studios agreed to distribute the film. [ 123 ] Guava Island, the resulting film written by Stephen Glover and directed by Hiro Murai, was filmed in Cuba. It stars Glover as a musician who decides to throw a festival on his fatherland, with Rihanna co-star as his collaborator and muse. [ 124 ] [ 125 ] It was released in 2019 through Amazon Prime Video to broadly favorable critical appraisal after premiering at Coachella. [ 126 ] [ 127 ] Glover provided guest vocals to the track “ Monster ” on 21 barbarous ‘s 2018 album I Am > I Was, reflecting on his negative feelings toward the music industry and why he wants to retire from music. [ 128 ] He partnered with Adidas Originals to reimagine three pairs of classic Adidas sneakers, which were launched in April 2019 under the “ Donald Glover Presents ” cable and were promoted by a series of advertisements starring comedian Mo’Nique. [ 129 ] [ 130 ] [ 131 ] Days after headlining Coachella in April 2019, Glover premiered a new birdcall, “ Algorythm ”, through the mobile app PHAROS AR. [ 132 ] The augment world application allows users to open the virtual Pharos populace with other players. [ 133 ] During his headlining performance at the 2019 Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, Glover drew “ the biggest herd that Outside Lands has ever had ” and besides announced that it was “ the second to death show that we ‘ll be doing ” before retiring the Childish Gambino pseudonym. [ 134 ] When asked on Jimmy Kimmel Live! about the status of retiring, Glover said he was diffident and may continue to perform after the This Is America Tour. Glover was expected to release another album per the RCA Records contract he signed in January 2018. [ 135 ] Glover provided the voice for adult Simba, the titular protagonist and leo prince turned king in The Lion King ( 2019 ), a remake of the 1994 Disney film of the same name. [ 136 ] Glover praised the director, Jon Favreau, for the room he constructed the dateless narrative and asked him to re-record his lines as he connected to the film ‘s report line more personally after his forefather ‘s death. [ 5 ] [ 137 ] Glover sing on the movie ‘s soundtrack and on the curated album The Lion King: The Gift, featuring songs inspired by the movie. [ 138 ] Despite receiving assorted reviews, the movie grossed $ 1.6 billion cosmopolitan, making it one of the highest-grossing films of all fourth dimension. [ 139 ] On March 15, 2020, Glover streamed his surprise fourth album on his web site Donald Glover Presents, where it played on a loop for twelve hours until it was taken down. 21 barbarous and Ariana Grande feature on the album. [ 140 ] The album was released on digital services the following week under the mention 3.15.20. [ 141 ] It was well received by music critics and debuted at number 13 on the Billboard 200. [ 142 ] [ 143 ] In November 2020, in a rare appearance on his Twitter bill, Glover opined that seasons 3 and 4 of Atlanta would be on the bore of The Sopranos and that his following musical visualize would be his “ biggest by far ”. [ 144 ] More recently, he signed a overall batch with Amazon Studios. [ 145 ] In December 2019, Glover endorsed 2020 democratic campaigner Andrew Yang [ 146 ] and joined his political campaign as a creative adviser. [ 147 ]
Influences [edit ]
In an consultation with The Guardian, Glover stated, “ I ‘m influenced by LCD Soundsystem ampere much as Ghostface Killah. A batch of the rap shows I saw as a kid were bore, but if you went to a ramp Against the Machine show or a Justice read, the kids were losing their minds. Kids merely want to go testis, Odd Future know that. People want to experience something physical. ” [ 148 ] Glover besides cites hip hop duet Outkast and three Migos, [ 149 ] [ 150 ] and funk set Funkadelic as being influences. [ 151 ] Glover has besides influenced a number of younger musicians and actors. Rapper Vince Staples talked of Glover ‘s ability to constantly reinvent himself, while actor and writer Naren Weiss cited his versatility as a reference of inspiration. [ 152 ] [ 153 ] [ 154 ]
personal biography [edit ]
Glover began dating Michelle White in 2015. [ 5 ] They have three sons, born in early 2016, [ 5 ] [ 155 ] January 2018, [ 156 ] and 2020. [ 157 ] Glover is known as a private person and rarely posts on social media or does interviews unless for promotional ferment. In an consultation with The New Yorker, he stated that social media made him feel “ less human ” and that he only visits on-line discussion pages in which he can stay anonymous and communicate with people who understand what he is saying. [ 158 ] [ 159 ] On December 17, 2018, during the final examination stop for the This Is America Tour, Glover announced that his beget had died. He said, “ I lost my father a couple weeks ago and I wanted to play him some of the new songs but he did n’t want to hear them, because he was like, ‘I know they ‘re going to be capital. ‘ ” [ 160 ] [ 161 ]
discography [edit ]
Tours [edit ]
Comedy tours
- IAMDONALD Tour (2011)
Musical tours
- The Sign-Up Tour (2011)
- Camp Gambino Tour (2012)
- Deep Web Tour (2014)
- This Is America Tour (2018)
Filmography [edit ]
film [edit ]
television [edit ]
Music video [edit ]
vane [edit ]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2006–2010
Derrick Comedy videos
Various characters
Also writer, composer and executive producer
2009
I Am Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods
Funny or Die short[167]
2012
Community: Abed’s Master Key
Troy Barnes (voice)
Webisode
2019
Donald Glover Presents
Himself
Also writer
Awards and nominations [edit ]
References [edit ]
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