Tyrese

Born:: December 30, 1978, he's 33 and American.
Birthname:: Tyrese Darnell Gibson.
Snapshot:: An Artist with 10 releases, and credited 3 times on others' music. 1 collaboration.

Tyrese Darnell Gibson is an American singer born in 1978 who performs as Tyrese or Black-Ty. The main thrust of his musical activity is in the R&B and hip-hop genres but he has carved out a successful parallel career as a model and actor. His many recent appearances on film include roles in 2 Fast 2 Furious and Transformers.

Though he was a member of a hip-hop band Triple Impact at the time, his first eponymous release was as an R&B artist in 1998. He followed this with further R&B styled albums, 2000 Watts (2001) and I Wanna Go There (2002). The first appearance of his hop-hop persona was on his most recent album, Alter Ego which was released in 2006 and features one CD of R&B music (as Tyrese) and one CD of hip-hop (as Black-Ty).

More recently he has been collaborating with Ginuwine and Tank in the supergroup TGT.