Hotmail
 Interviews & Clips Photos News Awards & Nominations  |
|
MC Hammer
:
Overview
 Avg.User Rating:  8 RatingsRate this person:
Executive Producer, Actor, Featured Music, Songwriter Born: March 30, 1962 in Oakland, CA Biography:Widely acknowledged as one of the first musical acts, alongside Kurtis Blow, Run-D.M.C., and others, to push rap and hip-hop into the American mainstream, MC Hammer (born Stanley Kirk Burrell in Oakland, CA, on March 30, 1962) enjoyed a seemingly limitless and unstoppable tide of success in the early '90s, with the issue of his multi-platinum albums Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em (1990) and Too Legit to Quit (1991). The notoriety was short-lived, however. Though Hammer retained his iconic status, he lost audience ground in the mid-'90s and was written off (by many) as passé -- a symbol of his era. Falling record sales and Chapter 11 ensued, yet talk of a musical resurgence persisted. Over time, Hammer (who grew up in a devout home) became more evangelical and tried to place greater emphasis on Christian themes in his music, but did so to little commercial success. Finally, another Hammer album, the... Full Biography
| ||||||||||||
| advertisement |
Movie data provided by:
