Will Smith

Biography

Will Smith was adopted in the Wynnefield district of Philadelphia. He is the second of four children, the two last being twins, Harry and Ellen.

His/her parents gave him an education. He is firmly opposed to the beliefs of the Fondamentaliste S Christians; for example, he criticizes them in the title ms. Holy Roller of its album Lost & Found . As of his childhood, Smith proves to be an intelligent and charismatic child, so that his/her comrades of the Overbrook college called it already " Prince" , because of the charm of which it made proof to be left the troubles.

At the 12 years age, Smith is largely influenced by Eddie Murphy and the new heroes of the Hip-hop.

At 16 years it meets Jeff Townes with a festival; they become friendly close relations and start to sing together, Jeff as a DJ Jazzy Jeff and Smith as Fresh Prince.

Raise shining, Smith made his secondary studies with the Julia Reynolds Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School , famous school of Philadelphia; he refuses later a grant of the Massachusetts Institute off Technology (MIT) to devote himself more seriously to his musical career.

Beginnings in the music

Will Smith thus begins her musical career as a MC in duet DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, with her friend Jeffrey " DJ Jazzy Jeff" Townes as a DJ and producer and Ready Rock'n'roll C (Clarence Holmes) for the Beatbox. In 1987, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince leave their first album Rock the House containing the hit Girls ain' T nothing goal disturbs . Their first large business success leaves in 1989, Parents just don' T understand , which will be worth to them a grammy award in the " category; better performance rap". Whereas Smith starts to draw the attention of Hollywood and large the networks American, the duet establishes its success with He' S the DJ, I' m the Rapper , one of the first LP S Hip-hop of the history to becoming double Disque of platinum. Their comic style and flashy made contrast with the Hip-hop of the time, much harder. The absence of vulgarity in the texts make their songs ideal for the stations radio, and receive the approval of the American parents, while touching all the public ones.

The Prince of Beautiful-Air

Despite everything, this popularity and the richness annoy Smith, who seeks new challenges to take up. Opportunities do not delay in the person of Benny Medina, which had the idea to produce a Sitcom based on its life. This idea results in creation for NBC from the sitcom The Fresh Prince off Beautiful-Air in which Smith holds the role titrates. The series is the history of a teenager of the streets of Philadelphia which unloads in his/her uncle with Beautiful-Air, Los Angeles in an easy family. Success is immediate, and the series continues until in 1996.

On the musical level, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince carry out Summertime , extracted the album Homebase , which gains an important success. In 1993, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince leave their last disc together, Code Red .

Thereafter, Smith tries to explore his capacities of actor while playing in the film Where the day takes you , until being recognized by the critic in 1993 for his role in Six degrees of separation , film in which he plays in against employment as a homosexual swindler . The same year, NBC decides to finish the series the Prince of Beautiful-Air at the end of the third season, but the strong reaction of the fans and the mass of received mail encourage the chain to re-examine its position; with final the series will be taken back for three additional seasons.

International success

In 1995 Smith divides the poster of the film Bad Boys with Martin Lawrence, a relative business success which opens to him the doors of larger productions. After the oddment the Prince of Beautiful-Air in 1996, it devotes himself to his career with the cinema with Independence Day, or it plays the captain Steven Hiller, a Pilote of the air hunter of Alien S, with an enormous success this time (the film at the time placing like the second larger world business success of the history of the cinema behind Jurassic Park ). The following year, he plays in Men in Black , where he gives the counterpart to Tommy Lee Jones, then in Ennemi of State in 1998 and Wild Wild West 1999. Besides he refuses to play in Matrix to turn Wild Wild West , choice which he will regard later as the largest regret of his career. In 2001, Smith undergoes an impressive physical transformation to play the boxer Muhammad Ali in Ali . Its interpretation is worth to him a nomination with the Oscars in the " category; better acteur" in 2001 (Denzel Washington gains the trophy).

In margin of his career of actor, Smith launches out in the music in solo at the end of the Années 1990, generally with individual S associated with his films; most famous individual S is Men in Black , Gettin' Jiggy Wit It (what made jiggy an expression with the mode during some time in the United States in 1998), and Just the Two off Custom , a message of affection to its first wire, Willard " Trey" Smith III. Its first two albums solo were discs of platinum, but its third album was a disappointment from the point of view of the sales, so that Smith was laid off label Sony in 2003 because of its age, estimated too old to ensure of great business successes. It signs an new agreement with Interscope Records and launches the abum Lost & found in 2005.

After his role in Ali, Smith starts to imply itself in the production of the films in which it turns, like I, Robot (2004) or Hitch (2005). He also multiplies the projects as a producing with films in project such as ATL , My wife hastes your wife , White servant boy shuffle and The Mark .

End 2006, it is with the poster of the film To the research of happiness with his/her son Jaden Smith.

Selective catalog of films

Work for television

Discography

Albums

With DJ Jazzy Jeff

Rock'n'roll the House (1987)
He' S the DJ, I' m to grate (1988)
And in this Corner… (1989)
Homebase (1991)
Code Red (1993)
Greatest Hits (1998)
The Very Best off D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince (2006)

In solo

Big Willie Style (1997)
Greatest Hits (1998)
Willennium (1999)
Born to Reign (2002)
Lost & Found (2005)

total world Sales of albums: 25 million

Individual

Characteristics

the films in which Will Smith figure paid nearly 2 billion dollars to the American Box-office.
It appears in 49e position in the list of the celebrities best paid magazine Forbes with profits estimated at 25 million dollars for 2006.
He is a fan of the group of Death metal Soilwork; it has a house in Sweden.
It is with Queen Latifah and Eminem the only artist Hip-hop to have been nominated for the Oscars in an actor category.
It usually speaks Spanish.
It measures 1,87m, size which it had as of its 13 years.
It took part in the song Voices that Care in 1991, in connection with the war of the Gulf.
It refuses the role initially titrates in Men in Black in 1997, but his wife convinces it to accept.
the rappor Bow Wow qualified Smith of " rappor guimauve" (bubble-gum to grate) because of its more run approach, more " soft" Hip-hop. Smith answered " I do not have to answer a spoiled child and immature". They since solved their arguments.
It goes every year in a Thermal spa of Arizona with his/her mother for one week, calling these stays " moments of affection mother-fils".
Its team favorite NBA is the Los Angeles Lakers, which caused the anger of the fans of the team of basketball of Philadelphia (of or it is originating), which on several occasions hooted it during its public appearances with the shirt of the Lakers.
It quotes Harrison Ford like an inspiration for its implication in the trade of actor. the Star Wars is its preferred film.
It was considered to play the part of Willy Wonka in Charlie and the chocolate factory (Johnny Depp obtains finally the role)
Smith and its family resident with Star Island, Miami, Florida.
Just like Smith, Kevin James, his partner in Hitch is the hero of a sitcom called the guy of the Queens ( The King off Queens ). Smith is a large fan of this series, and chooses James to play the part of Albert in Hitch.
It admires the fictional hero John Shaft, to which it makes to some references in the Prince of Beautiful-Air.
It refuses to kiss a man in the film Six degrees of separation . In film, one with the impression to see them to embrace itself thanks to a skilful set of cameras.
His wife current, Jada Pinkett Smith, auditioned for the role of LISA in the Prince of Beautiful-Air but was not retained because of its size, considered to be too small.
It was considered for the role of John Smith in the film Mr. & Mrs. Smith ; Brad Pitt obtains finally the role.
It is friendly of one of its larger admirors on hi5, Loic Ovono Ella which regards it as a model to be followed on the vestimentary level.

Quotations

I am frimor and badly at ease when me am not looked at.

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