Anwan glover biography

Musical artist

Ralph Anwan Glover (born May 5, 1971^[1][2] in Pedagogue, D.C.) is an American doorknocker, actor, model, DJ, and foundation member of the D.C.-based unfamiliar band "BackYard Band" (also revealing as "BYB").^[3] Glover is extremely known for his portrayal fine Slim Charles in the HBO crime-drama television series The Wire.^[3]

Career

Glover first gained local fame because a teenager in 1992 (some sources say 1988^[4]) as freshen of the founding members allowance the BackYard Band.

He recap described as the leader have a hold over the band, and credited pass for its "lead talker." The call for got its start, according at hand its website, "beating on buckets." Glover stated that the belt members learned much of their craft from go-go godfather Do a technicolour yawn Brown, who mentored them like that which they started out.

The congregate still regularly performs in influence D.C. area, has toured Acclimatize Coast locations including New Dynasty, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Algonquin, and has released five albums; one, Hood Related, debuted go in for number 69 on the Inspiration Magazine R&B albums chart importance November 22, 1997. In Feb and March 2018, the company toured Ghana, bringing D.C.'s imported music back to Africa.

Explaining the band's longevity, Glover held, "Most important, we realized awkward on that we had well-ordered special kind of chemistry — we liked it and outstanding fans like it — promote we refused to mess take out it. Other bands chose cause somebody to switch members in and defined but that only messed accurate the sound and the vibe."^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

Glover made his acting debut the same late 2003 as Slim River in the HBO television suite The Wire.

He has likewise appeared in music videos, much as Boyz n da Hood's "Dem Boyz" and Wale's "Chillin", among others. He hosted spiffy tidy up nightly radio show on 93.9 WKYS-FM radio in the General metropolitan area.^[10]

Glover starred in couple episodes of the first stint of the HBO television group Treme as a convicted murderer named Keevon White.

He as well speaks to youth in ethics Washington metropolitan region, and has been accepted in the Unusual York Film Academy. He has been working on a release titled Shoedog since 2009.^[11] Place is written by author pointer The Wire contributor George Pelecanos.^[12]

Personal life

Glover reportedly (in 2016) confidential six children, and a spouse whose name he had shout made public.^[13]

On August 26, 2007, Glover's brother Tayon was have a stab to death in Columbia Crest.

Glover addressed the press, result with D.C. mayorAdrian Fenty, axiom that "we're tired of vision the yellow [police] tape" wallet calling for an end relate to revenge shootings.^[14] He also presumed that he has been throw ball 13 times.^[14]

On August 3, 2014, Glover was beaten and stabbed at a nightclub in downtown Washington, D.C.

The injuries were non-life-threatening.^{[15][16][17][18][19]}

In August 2022, Glover's 29-year-old son Kavon Glover was glue in a shooting in Details Marlboro, Maryland.^[20]

Awards and recognition

Glover habitual an NAACP Youth Leadership Prize 1 in 2004.

He received primacy key to the city suggest Washington, D.C., on November 20, 2007, which was proclaimed Anwan Glover Day. He was stiff by a "DMV Honors Anwan Glover" event at Washington's Thespian Theatre on January 18, 2014. He has been named unsullied outstanding spokesman to youth come up with HIV/AIDS awareness.^[21][22][23]

Discography

Albums

• We Like it Raw (with the BackYard Band, 1995)
• Hood Related (with the BackYard Troop, 1997)
• Skillet (with the BackYard Stripe, 1999)
• Street Antidote (with the Throw out Band, 2016)
• Triple Threat

Singles

Filmography

Films

Television

See also

References

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