Donald Glover Biography
Donald Glover (Donald McKinley Glover Jr) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, director, singer, rapper, songwriter and DJ. Glover performs music under the stage name Childish Gambino and as a DJ under the name mcDJ. After coming to public attention for his work with Derrick Comedy while a student at New York University, Tina Fey hired Glover at age 23 as a writer for the NBC sitcom 30 Rock. On the NBC sitcom Community, Glover portrayed community college student Troy Barnes. Glover stars in the FX series Atlanta, which he created and occasionally directs.
Glover won various accolades, for his work on Atlanta, including Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series and Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy. In film, he has appeared in Mystery Team in 2009, Magic Mike XXL, The Lazarus Effect, The Martian (all 2015), Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2017 and as the young Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story in 2018. Glover will also provide the voice of the adult Simba in a remake of the Disney film The Lion King in 2019.
In 2011, Glover signed to Glassnote Records, after several self-released albums and mixtapes. On November 15, 2011, he released his first album, Camp, to generally positive reviews. Glover’s second studio album, Because the Internet, was released on December 10, 2013. His third album, “Awaken, My Love!”, was released on December 2, 2016, spawning the single “Redbone”, which peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and eventually earned him a Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance. Glover was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world in 2017. Glover released the song and video for “This Is America”, in May 2018, which debuted at number-one on the Hot 100. The song was nominated for four Grammy Awards at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards (Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rap/Sung Performance and Best Music Video) but This is America won the Song of the Year and Record of the Year. Glover’s EP Summer Pack was released in early July 2018.
Donald Glover Age
Donald Glover is 35 years old as per 2018 bon on September 25, 1983 in Edwards Air Force Base, Kern County, California, U.S.
Donald Glover Height
Donald Glover stand s at a height of 1.75 m.
Donald Glover Parents
His mother, Beverly (née Smith) is a retired daycare provider and his father, Donald Glover Sr. was a retired postal worker. His parents also served as foster parents for 14 years. Glover was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness.
Donald Glover Brother
Donald Glover has a younger brother, writer/producer Stephen Glover, who was also nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for Atlanta.
Donald Glover Wife
Donald Glover is married to Michelle White. In January 2017, Glover announced that he and his WIFE/SPOUSE, had a son in early 2016. Before performing “Baby Boy” In June, in a tribute to his son, Glover revealed his name as Legend. Glover announced in September, that he and Michelle were expecting a second son, who was born in January 2018.
Donald Glover Dad
During the final stop for the This is America Tour, on December 17, 2018, Glover announced that his father, Donald Glover Sr., had passed away. “I lost my father a couple weeks ago and I wanted to play him some of the new songs but he didn’t want to hear them, because he was like, ‘I know they’re going to be great’ ” Glover said.
Donald Glover Education
Donald Glover attended Lakeside High School and DeKalb School of the Arts and was captioned “Most Likely to Write for The Simpsons” in his high school yearbook. Glover graduated from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Dramatic Writing in 2006. While at Tisch, he self-produced the independent mixtape The Younger I Get, which was not released and was disowned by Glover for being “too-raw ramblings” of what he calls a “decrepit Drake”. He also began disc jockeying and producing electronic music under the moniker MC D—later as mcDJ—remixing Sufjan Stevens’ album Illinois back in 2005.
Donald Glover Influences
During an interview with The Guardian Glover said, that he was influenced by LCD Soundsystem as Ghostface Killah lot of the rap shows he saw as a kid were boring, but if they went to a Rage Against the Machine show or a Justice show, the kids were losing their minds. Kids just wanted to go nuts, Odd Future knew that. People wanted to experience something physical. He also cites hip hop duo Outkast and trio Migos and funk band Funkadelic as being influences.
Glover has also influenced a number of younger musicians and actors like Rapper Vince Staples talks of Glover’s ability to constantly reinvent himself while Naren Weiss, actor and writer cites his versatility as a source of inspiration.
Donald Glover Albums
- Main article: Childish Gambino discography
- Camp (2011)
- Because the Internet (2013)
- “Awaken, My Love!” (2016)
Donald Glover Tours
- IAMDONALD Tour (2011)
- The Sign-Up Tour (2011)
- Camp Gambino Tour (2012)
- Deep Web Tour (2014)
- This Is America Tour (2018)
Donald Glover Movies
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2009 | Mystery Team | Jason Rogers | Also writer, composer and executive producer |
2011 | The Muppets | Junior CDE Executive | Cameo |
2013 | The To Do List | Derrick | |
Clapping for the Wrong Reasons | The Boy | Short film; also writer and executive producer | |
2014 | Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day | Greg | |
Chicken and Futility | The Boy | Short film; also writer and director | |
2015 | The Lazarus Effect | Niko | |
Magic Mike XXL | Andre | ||
The Martian | Rich Purnell | ||
2017 | Spider-Man: Homecoming | Aaron Davis | |
2018 | Solo: A Star Wars Story | Lando Calrissian | |
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Troy Barnes | Cameo[127] | |
2019 | The Lion King | Simba | Voice role; Post-production |
TBA | Guava Island | TBA | Post-production |
Donald Glover Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2005 | Late Night with Conan O’Brien | Criminal | Episode: “July 22, 2005” |
2006–2012 | 30 Rock | Various | 4 episodes; also writer and executive story editor |
2007 | Human Giant | College Webcam Guy | Episode: “24 Hour Marathon” |
2009–2014 | Community | Troy Barnes | 89 episodes |
2010 | Robot Chicken | Mace Windu (voice) | Episode: “Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III” |
2010 | Comedy Central Presents | Himself | Stand-up special |
2011 | Regular Show | Alpha-Dawg (voice) | Episode: “Rap It Up” |
2012 | Donald Glover: Weirdo | Himself | Stand-up special |
2013 | Sesame Street | LMNOP | Episode: “Figure It Out, Baby Figure It Out” |
2013 | Girls | Sandy | 2 episodes |
2013, 2016 | Adventure Time | Marshall Lee (voice) | 2 episodes |
2015 | Ultimate Spider-Man | Miles Morales/Spider-Man (voice) | 2 episodes |
2015 | China, IL | William “Transfer Billy” (voice) | 4 episodes |
2016–present | Atlanta | Earnest “Earn” Marks / Teddy Perkins | Also creator, writer, director, and executive producer |
2018 | Saturday Night Live | Himself (host and musical guest) | Episode: “Donald Glover/Childish Gambino” |
Donald Glover Music videos
Year | Title | Album | Director |
| 2012 | “Giants” (Josh Osho featuring Childish Gambino) | L.I.F.E. | Jordan Bahat |
| 2013 | “Bed Peace” (Jhené Aiko featuring Childish Gambino) | Sail Out | Danny Williams |
| “Relations (Remix)”[130] (Kenna featuring Childish Gambino) | Land 2 Air Chronicles II: Imitation Is Suicide Chapter 1 | Jason Chen | |
| 2014 | “The Pressure” (Jhené Aiko)[131] | Souled Out | Childish Gambino |
| 2015 | “Gahdamn” (Kari Faux)[132] | Laugh Now, Die Later | Calmatic |
| 2018 | “Garden (Say It Like Dat)” | Ctrl | Karena Evans |
| 2018 | “This is America” | Single | Hiro Murai |
| 2018 | “Feels Like Summer” | Summer Pack | Donald Glover, Ivan Dixon, Greg Sharp |
Donald Glover Web
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2006–2010 | Derrick Comedy videos | Various characters | Also writer, composer and executive producer |
2009 | I Am Tiger Woods | Tiger Woods | Funny or Die short[133] |
2012 | Community: Abed’s Master Key | Troy Barnes (voice) | Webisode |
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Childish Gambino has won Song of the Year at the 61st Grammy Awards. His single “This Is America” beat out tracks by Drake (“God’s Plan”), Kendrick Lamar and SZA (“All the Stars”), Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper (“Shallow”), Ella Mai (“Boo’d Up”), Zedd, Maren Morris, and Grey (“The Middle”), and Brandi Carlile (“The Joke”).
“This Is America” is the first hip-hop Song of the Year winner in Grammy history. The last artist to win one of the big four awards while absent from the ceremony was Amy Winehouse, in 2008. She accepted her awards for Record and Song of the Year and Best New Artist via satellite link-up from London. The last time the award was accepted on an artist’s behalf was in 2003, when Luther Vandross won Song of the Year and his business manager and “Dance With My Father” co-writer accepted the award. This is the first time a living nominee hasn’t been present to accept one of the 4 major awards since George Michael in 1989. Watch the presenters John Mayer and Alicia Keys accept the Grammy in Donald Glover’s honor.
Gambino also won Record of the Year for “This Is America.” It beat tracks by Cardi B, J Balvin, and Bad Bunny (“I Like It”), Kendrick Lamar and SZA (“All the Stars”), Drake (“God’s Plan”), Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper (“Shallow”), Post Malone featuring 21 Savage (“rockstar”), Zedd, Maren Morris, and Grey (“The Middle”), and Brandi Carlile (“The Joke”). During his acceptance speech on Gambino’s behalf, Ludwig Göransson shouted out 21 Savage and others.
Glover also teased what sounded like unreleased Childish Gambino music in a Google Pixel Playmoji ad that aired during the Grammys. Cross-referencing the lyrics online reveals the song is called “Human Sacrifice”; Gambino’s been playing it on tour in the past several months. Check that out here.
Young Thug and Black Panther composer Ludwig Göransson were also credited as Song of the Year winners alongside Gambino. Earlier in the night, Göransson’s Black Panther score won the award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. A Grammys producer previously revealed that Glover, Drake, and Kendrick all turned downperformances.
In addition to Song of the Year, “This Is America” got nominated for Record of the Year and Best R&B Song. Earlier in the ceremony, it picked up the awards for Best Music Video and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.
21 Savage is among the many background vocalists on “This Is America.” 21, who was nominated for two Grammys for “rockstar,” was absent from tonight’s ceremony because he was recently detained by ICE, who claim that he “is unlawfully present in the U.S.” Since the arrest, 21 has confirmed that he was born in the United Kingdom and moved to the United States at age 7. There’s also been an outpouring of support for 21 Savage from the hip-hop community. JAY-Z, for one, called the arrest “an absolute travesty,” and has hired an attorney to assist 21.