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Chris Brown
Christopher Maurice Brown is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. A pop and hip-hop influenced R&B musician who works in a variety of genres, he has been called the "King of R&B" by some contemporaries. His lyrics often address emotional and hedonistic themes.
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entertainment · American singer (born 1989) · singer · rapper · songwriter · dancer · actor · composer · also Chris Brown, C. Sizzle, CB, Brown
Born 5 May 1989 · Q155700
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2026· 22 entries
“I don’t even know what to say right now. Probably just going to go to the house and play with my daughter and figure it out from there.”
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“Honestly, I probably would have laughed at my clothing. Because back then our T-shirts would be down by the knees, baggy jeans, maybe some Timberlands on. I don”
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“We were used to two pairs of shoes for a school year. We used to go to church every day. I was one of those kids that had more church clothes than school clothes.”
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“s partner shot himself in the head, but did not die. The gunshot blinded him, the physical impairment only adding to his rage. Donnelle vented his anger and frustration on Brown”
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The Tab: Celebrities ‘unfollow’ BTS after their support for Chris Brown, including collaborator
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AOL: Chris Brown’s now-deleted reply to a BTS fan’s “abuser” comment draws online criticism
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Public attention spiked: 15,039 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.9× the usual 3,855, with 0 article edits.
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The Guardian: Singer Chris Brown pleads guilty to affray over London club confrontation
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The Guardian: R&B star Chris Brown ordered to pay $13m to housekeeper mauled by his dog
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Published video “Chris Brown - It Depends/Obvious (Official Video)”.
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Published video “Chris Brown - Man On A Mission (Audio) ft. Wizkid”.
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Published video “Chris Brown - Still Human (Audio)”.
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Published video “Chris Brown - Just the Bro (Audio) ft. Tyga, Ty Dolla $ign”.
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Published video “Chris Brown - Save Me (Audio)”.
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Published video “Chris Brown - No Signal (Audio)”.
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Published video “Chris Brown - Nthn2tlkbout (Audio)”.
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Published video “Chris Brown - Appreciate It (Audio)”.
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Published video “Chris Brown - GP (Audio)”.
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Published video “Chris Brown - 4Ever (Audio)”.
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Released album “BROWN”.
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“Vou manter cem. Eu tenho falado com as pessoas para que possamos descobrir algo, mas eu não vou dizer nada ainda. Eu não vou conseguir hype de ninguém ainda", disse ele. No entanto, ele acrescentou que "o cheque não foi cortado, nada disso.”
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2025· 2 entries
AAP rated the claim “Bondi vet Dr Chris Brown is asking fans to message him on social media.” False. The accounts are fake..
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The Guardian: Chris Brown sues Warner Bros for $500m over sexual assault allegations in documentary
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2024· 2 entries
The Guardian: A history of violence: how has Chris Brown survived so much controversy?
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best R&B Album for 11:11 (2024).
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2023· 3 entries
Released album “11:11”.
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“s concept being connected to the homonym numerological belief. Moreover, he shared that the album will contain 11 songs, a much shorter tracklist than his previous albums Heartbreak on a Full Moon, Indigo, and Breezy. On October 20, 2023, Brown released the Afrobeats song”
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Brown described working on his first album as a "learning experience", recalling that he felt "insecure" about releasing "Run It
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2022· 5 entries
Released album “Breezy”.
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The Guardian: Chris Brown sued for allegedly drugging and raping woman on yacht
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That at the time, when he was on the way to go to the counseling, he received a phone call from Prince, that told him to "don't lose focus", wanting a conversation with him about "being special"
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11:11 in 2023, and Brown in 2026
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His Indigo album spawned a sleeper hit with its song "Under the Influence", which was re-released as a single
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2021· 2 entries
Released album “All About Breezy Volume 2”.
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The Guardian: Police investigate Chris Brown over alleged battery of woman in LA
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2020· 3 entries
Released album “Slime & B”.
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Brown was featured on Drake's Dark Lane Demo Tapes mixtape, on the track "Not You Too"
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Brown announced the release of a collaborative mixtape with Young Thug, Slime & B
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2019· 8 entries
Brown eventually released a deluxe version of Indigo entitled Indigo Extended, which included 10 additional songs, making the extended version a total of 42 songs
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Marking Brown's second double album
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Released album “Indigo”.
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Brown announced an official headlining concert tour "Indigoat Tour" in which he performed the album throughout the US
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The Guardian: Paris police release singer Chris Brown after questioning over rape allegation
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Brown released "Undecided" as its lead single
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Billboard named Brown the third most successful artist of the 2010s decade in R&B and hip-hop music, behind Drake and Rihanna
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The album has been certified double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America
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2018· 5 entries
The Guardian: Chris Brown arrested after Florida show
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The Guardian: Chris Brown: the downfall of the disgraced R&B hit-maker
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The Guardian: Chris Brown sued by woman claiming she was raped in his home
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Brown was featured on Lil Dicky's hit single "Freaky Friday"
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Shortly after President Donald Trump's 2020 State of the Union Address, Brown released for free the track "State of the Union", a ballad where he expresses a message about social harmony
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2017· 8 entries
Released a 12-track surprise deluxe edition of the album, titled Cuffing Season – 12 Days of Christmas
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The Guardian: 45 songs by Chris Brown, anyone? Why albums are getting longer
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Released album “Heartbreak on a Full Moon”.
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Via digital retailers and onto CD, three days later by RCA Records
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Brown organized with Tidal a free pop-up concert in New York City to perform the singles on the album and promote it
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The Guardian: Chris Brown discusses abuse of Rihanna: 'I felt like a monster'
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Released the album's fourth single, the trap song "Pills & Automobiles", featuring fellow American rappers Yo Gotti, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, and Kodak Black, while shortly after he released the fifth single, "Question
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The Guardian: Chris Brown v Soulja Boy: taking the beef to the boxing ring
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2016· 4 entries
Released the second official single from the album, "Party", featuring guest vocals from American R&B singer Usher and rapper Gucci Mane
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Released album “Attack The Block”.
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Released album “Before the Trap: Nights in Tarzana”.
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The singer released two hip-hop collaborative mixtapes with his OHB crew, Before the Trap: Nights in Tarzana and Attack the Block
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2015· 9 entries
Released ep “Royalty International”.
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Released album “Royalty”.
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And debuted at number 3 on the US Billboard 200, selling 184,000 units (162,000 in pure album sales) in its first week
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Released a free 34-track mixtape called Before the Party as a prelude to Royalty, which features guest appearances from Rihanna, Wiz Khalifa, Pusha T, Kelly Rowland, Wale, Tyga, French Montana and Fetty Wap
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Released album “Before The Party”.
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Released ep “C. Sizzle Undiscovered”.
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Brown announced that Royalty would be released on November 27, 2015
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Brown released his first collaborative album with Tyga, titled Fan of a Fan: The Album
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Released album “Fan of a Fan: The Album”.
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2014· 6 entries
Released ep “TRGA X BRZY”.
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Released album “X”.
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Brown released a teaser of the new track "Don't Be Gone Too Long" featuring Ariana Grande
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Released album “The Best of Chris Brown”.
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It was announced that the album would be released on Brown's birthday, May 5, 2014
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After being released from jail on June 2, 2014, Brown wrote that he was "Humbled and Blessed" and tweeted the words "Thank you GOD."
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2013· 9 entries
Brown was sentenced to an anger management rehabilitation center for three months, putting the December 2013 release of X in jeopardy
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Released ep “X Files”.
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At 1:09 am PDT, Brown was reported to have suffered a seizure from Record Plant Studios in Hollywood, California as a 9-1-1 call was made
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Released album “Only God Can Judge Me”.
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Released the critically acclaimed "Fine China" as the lead single of X
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Brown announced the release of X, in various interviews and listening sessions
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The singer unofficially released the song "Home" in which he reflects on the dark side of fame, and how he grounds himself by returning to the neighborhood where he grew up
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“derived from personal experiences. Then again, I always like mixing reality with art.”
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In a May 2013 interview, Brown stated that he and Rihanna had broken up again.
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2012· 5 entries
Released ep “Don't Judge Me (Remixes)”.
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Released album “Fortune”.
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Released ep “Don’t Wake Me Up (Remixes)”.
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Brown won his first Grammy Award, for Best R&B Album
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Brown's next album started to develop
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2011· 5 entries
RCA Music Group announced it was disbanding Jive Records along with Arista Records and J Records
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Released album “Boy in Detention”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best R&B Album for F.A.M.E. (2011).
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Released ep “Beautiful People Remix EP”.
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Released album “F.A.M.E.”.
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2010· 4 entries
Released ep “Deuces Remix”.
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Released album “Fan of a Fan”.
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Released album “In My Zone”.
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Released album “In My Zone 2”.
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2009· 4 entries
Released album “Graffiti”.
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A major part of mass media took positions against the singer
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“I went from being on top of the world, number one songs, being kind of like America”
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Brown faced significant controversy and media attention when he pleaded guilty to felony assault of his then girlfriend, the singer Rihanna
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2008· 4 entries
Awarded World Music Awards (2008).
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Seven months after the original version, featuring four new tracks, and pushed the album's success further
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Brown began work on his third album, announced to be called Graffiti, promising to experiment with a different musical direction inspired by singers Prince and Michael Jackson
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Brown did of a commercial spot for Doublemint gum, creating a jingle commissioned by an advertising company working for Wrigley
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2007· 8 entries
And concluded on February 9, 2008, in Honolulu, Hawaii
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Brown appeared as a leading role in This Christmas, a family drama starring Regina King
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Released album “Exclusive”.
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Brown was featured in an episode of MTV's My Super Sweet 16 (for the event, it was retitled: Chris Brown: My Super 18) celebrating his eighteenth birthday in New York City
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Released album “Exclusive: The Mixtape "The Ish U Aint Heard"”.
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From 2007 to 2009, Brown dated singer Rihanna until their highly publicized domestic violence case.
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Made his feature film debut in Stomp the Yard, and appeared as a guest on the television series The O
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In 2007, Brown founded the record label CBE ("Chris Brown Entertainment" or "Culture Beyond Evolution"), under Interscope Records.
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2006· 2 entries
To further promote the album, Brown began his major co-headlining tour, The Up Close and Personal Tour
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Brown released a DVD entitled Chris Brown's Journey, which shows footage of him traveling through England and Japan, preparing for his first visit to the Grammy Awards, behind the scenes of his music videos and bloopers
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2005· 3 entries
The Chris Brown album debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 with first week sales of 154,000 copies
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Released album “Chris Brown”.
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“I picked Jive because they had the best success with younger artists in the pop market, [...] I knew I was going to capture my African American audience, but Jive had a lot of strength in the pop area as well as longevity in careers.”
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2004· 2 entries
Brown began recording his debut album in February 2005
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Brown signed with Jive Records
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1995· 1 entry
To have his debut single to reach the summit of the Billboard Hot 100—later remaining for four additional weeks
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1989· 2 entries
In Tappahannock, Virginia, to Joyce Hawkins, a former day care center director, and Clinton Brown, a corrections officer at a local prison
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Born 1989-05-05.
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