Tevin Campbell

The song, "Round and Round" earned Campbell a Grammy Award nomination at the 33rd Grammy Awards for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance but lost to Luther Vandross for "Here and Now".

T.E.V.I.N. earned Campbell a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance at the 35th Grammy Awards but lost to Al Jarreau for his album Heaven and Earth.

The album was produced by Jones, Al B. Sure! and Narada Michael Walden among others.

Tevin Jermod Campbell (born November 12, 1976) is an American singer and songwriter.

He performed gospel in his local church from an early age.

"Tomorrow" was a vocal version of a 1976 instrumental by The Brothers Johnson and was the lead single from Jones' ensemble album Back on the Block, which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1991.

After working with Jones and writers and producers including Siedah Garrett, Campbell worked with producers Narada Michael Walden, Al B. Sure, Babyface, and others to record additional music.

Following an audition for jazz musician Bobbi Humphrey in 1988, Campbell was signed to Warner Bros. Records.

In 1989, Campbell collaborated with Quincy Jones performing lead vocals for "Tomorrow" on Jones' album Back on the Block and released his Platinum-selling debut album, T.E.V.I.N. The album included his highest-charting single to date, "Tell Me What You Want Me to Do", peaking at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The debut album also included the singles "Alone With You" (produced by Al B. Sure and Kyle West, with background vocals by K-Ci and JoJo from Jodeci), and "Goodbye".

In 1989, he made his debut on Jones' single "Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me)" which reached number one on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Singles chart in June 1990.

Campbell's first solo hit was "Round and Round", which charted at number 3 on the R&B chart in November 1990 and 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1991.

"Round and Round" was produced by Prince and was featured in Prince's film Graffiti Bridge.

After his appearance in the 1990 film Graffiti Bridge, Campbell made a guest appearance the following year on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, playing fictional teen idol, "Little T", a celebrity crush and date of Ashley's in the first-season episode, "Just Infatuation".

He was also referenced in two later episodes.

Will threatened to destroy Ashley's Tevin Campbell posters after she used Will's autographed Willie Mays baseball, cleaning off Mays' signature, for batting practice and schemed to use Tevin as part of a publicity stunt to promote Ashley's music career.

Campbell followed the success of his first two singles by releasing his debut album, T.E.V.I.N., in November 1991 which featured the R&B hit singles and Campbell's number 1 R&B hit: "Tell Me What You Want Me to Do" followed by "Alone with You", and "Goodbye".

T.E.V.I.N. reached number 38 on Billboard 200 chart and 5 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

The album eventually was certified Platinum by the RIAA for selling 1 million copies in the United States.

Between interviews and television appearances following the release of T.E.V.I.N., he contributed to three special projects: Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration, a Grammy Award-winning album produced by Mervyn Warren of Take 6; A Very Special Christmas 2 album, featuring Campbell's rendition of "Oh Holy Night"; and Barcelona Gold, the 1992 Olympics album which includes his hit "One Song".

Campbell's second album, I'm Ready, was also executive-produced by Jones and Medina.

"I wanted to make a more mature-sounding album to reflect my current state of mind," Campbell explained to J. R. Reynolds in Billboard magazine.

"I'm Ready says a lot about who I am as a person because of the things I've been through during the last four years or so. I hope people will see that I'm not the same young kid that I was on my first album."

The album was produced by Babyface, among others.

His double-Platinum-selling second album, I'm Ready, released in 1993, included two high-charting songs penned by Babyface; "Can We Talk" peaked at number 9 on the Hot 100 and number 1 on the Billboard R&B charts, and the album's title track "I'm Ready", which also peaked at number 9 on the Hot 100.

I'm Ready, released October 1993, yielded the singles "Can We Talk", which peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on Billboard's R&B chart; "I'm Ready", also a number 9 hit on the Hot 100 and number 2 on the R&B chart; and "Always in My Heart", which peaked at number 20 and number 6, respectively.

In 1996, Campbell released his third album, Back to the World, which was not as commercially or critically successful as his first two releases.

His fourth and most recent album, Tevin Campbell, was released in 1999, but performed poorly on Billboard's album charts.

As an actor, Campbell appeared in Prince's film Graffiti Bridge and made guest appearances on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Moesha television programs.

He voiced fictional pop star Powerline in Disney's A Goofy Movie and appeared as Seaweed in the Broadway musical Hairspray in 2005.

Campbell has earned five Grammy Award nominations, and he has certified sales of 5 million records in the United States, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.

Campbell was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the second child of Rhonda Byrd, a former postal worker who eventually became his manager.

He has an elder sister, Marche, and a younger brother, Damario.

His father left the family shortly after the birth of his brother.

Campbell and his father would not meet again until he was 15 years old.

With his mother being a member of the choir at Jacob's Chapel, a Baptist church in Waxahachie, Campbell began singing gospel music at an early age, first in the choir and then as a soloist.

At the age of 12, a family friend had him singing to jazz singer Bobbi Humphrey who arranged for him to perform at a videotaped showcase in Manhattan.

When the tape found its way into the hands of manager Benny Medina, he flew to Texas and signed Campbell shortly thereafter.

The family then relocated to Encino, Los Angeles where Campbell attended a private school in Sherman Oaks neighborhood.

Medina consulted Quincy Jones to work with Campbell.