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Marques Barrett Houston (born on August 4, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, is an R&B singer and actor.

Acting career

In 1992, Houston was featured on Bebe's Kids as the voice actor for the character named Kahlil. Houston and his Bandmates from Immature also sang the title song "Tear It Up (On Our Worst Behavior)" which is featured on Immature's debut album.

In 1993, he appeared on a two part episode of A Different World with his fellow group mates Jerome "Romeo" Jones and Don "Half Pint" Santos, of Immature. The episode centered around the character Whitley's first day as a teacher and Immature played 3 rowdy children that give her a hard time. His first appearance was in House Party 3 along with Immature.

In 1994, Houston played the role of "Roger Evans" on the TV series Sister, Sister. It was a running gag in the series for any other character to become frustrated and yell "Go Home, Roger!". As the Roger character, he often meant well but ended up annoying the twins, whom he pined for during each episode, in fact Immature actually guest starred at the end one episode, during the main episode "Roger" constantly insited he looked like Houston in an atempt to inpersonated him on stage, leading to confusion when the real Houston turns up. For this episode Houston ended up playing both himself and Roger, Houston would eventualy leave the series in 1998 to focus on his music career.

In 1997, he appeared on Good Burger as the actor name Jake.

In 2001, he was the protagonist in the direct-to-video film House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute, along with IMx bandmates.

In 2002, he started to sing with Omarion and other B2k members, J-Boog, Raz-B, and Lil Fizz. Houston introduced B2k, before IMx disbanded. B2k also appeared in the IMx video "Beautiful (You Are)", along with Miyoko Chilombo, who was once apart of the TUG Label with her short lived female group, Gyrl. She played lead female in the video.

In 2003, he was at the 30th Annual Music American Awards as presenting B2k's performance. He performed the song called "That Girl" at Kids Choice Awards 2003, combined with B2k song "Girlfriend". He also appeared on 3rd Annual BET Awards as a presenter.

In 2004, he came on Take It to the Streets and 2004 MTV Movie Awards. He appeared with Omarion of the group B2k, in the movie You Got Served as Elgin. Houston also appeared in Fat Albert as Dumb Donald.

In 2005, he was featured on an episode of Punk'd with Omarion. Omarion invited Houston to be part of the Punk'd episode about a pregnant woman.

In 2006, he starred as Kevin Barnes in the sitcom Cuts, a spinoff of One on One.

In 2007, he arrive on BET's 106 & Park on January 25, 2007. On March 10, 2007, he was on Soul Train Awards on the Performance to sing "Circle". Then, he arrive at the 2007 Teen Choice Awards on August 27, 2007.

In fall 2007, He will appear with Omarion in the horror movie, Somebody Help Me.

Also, in 2008, he will star in You Got Served 2 with Omarion.

Music career

In 1991, Houston formed the group Immature with his childhood friends, Jerome "Romeo" Jones and Don "Half Pint" Santos. Chris Stokes became the manager of the group.

In 1992, They released their debut album entitled On Our Worst Behavior. The original members were Marques "Batman" Houston, Jerome "Romeo" Jones and Don "Half Pint" Santos. The album met with dismal sales and Don "Half Pint" Santos left the group due to the demands of his parents. After being discovered by Marques "Batman" Houston, Kelton "LDB" Kessee joined Immature. His name "LDB" (Little Drummer Boy) comes from his skills with the drums. After regrouping, they released their second album in 1994, entitled Playtime Is Over. Then they released third their studio album called We Got It in 1995. Immature's last release was called, The Journey and was released in 1997. In 1998 The group later changed their name to IMx, because they felt matured personally and musically. They released their 1999 album, entitled Introducing IMx. IMx last release was their 2001 album, entitled IMx.

In 2002, IMx mutually disbanded because the members wanted to move on and do different things creatively. Houston inked a record deal with TUG/Universal records and embarked upon his journey of becoming a relevant R&B soloist.

In 2003, Houston recorded and released his first solo album entitled MH. His first is "That Girl", then release "Clubbin" in mid-tempo and "Pop That Booty (Ft. Jermaine Dupri)". Houston also appeared on Scream Tour with Nick Cannon, B2K, and Bow Wow.

In 2004, he released one last single from that album; "Because of You". This single was released as the sprung-2004 song. He was also featured on Young Rome's song/video "After Party" and with Omarion.

In 2005, Houston released his second solo effort entitled Naked. The singles from that album were "All Because of You (Ft. Young Rome)", "Naked", and "Sex With You". He was also featured on 50 Cent's remix to the hit single "Candy Shop".

In 2006 he released the first single from his third solo album, "Favorite Girl" and the Accompanying video, featuring Stacey Dash. He was also featured in his fellow T.U.G. artist, Mila J's video/song "Good Lookin' Out" and on Yung Joc's video/song "1st Time" and with Trey Songz.

In 2007, Houston, released the official second single, "Circle" and the music video debuted on Yahoo! Music and BET's Access Granted. Houston released his third studio album entitled, Veteran. It was supposed to come out in November 2006 but he took time to grieve after the death of his grandmother. According to the music charts on www.billboard.com, Marques Houston's album Veteran was the number one R&B album in the country and number 5 on the Hot 100 chart. Houston released his third single, "Wonderful", on BET Access Granted and Yahoo! Music.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Filmography

Years Films Roles
1992 Bébé's Kids Kahill (Voice)
1993 A Different World Eli Black
1994 - 1999 Sister Sister Roger Evans
1994 House Party 3 Himself
1997 Good Burger Jake
2001 House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute Jon-Jon
2003 The Center Host
2003 American Dreams Himself
2004 One on One Kevin Barnes
2004 You Got Served Elgin
2004 Fat Albert Dumb Donald
2005 - 2006 Cuts Kevin Barnes
2007 Somebody Help Me Brendan
2007 Backdown Elgin
2008 You Got Served 2 Elgin

Trivia

  • He has been in 4 out of 6 Scream Tours with others friends and rappers, such as B2k, Nick Cannon, Mario, and Bow Wow
  • He is now current CEO of TUG entertainment.
  • He is featured in Lil Fizz song called "Dunka" along with Snoop Dogg.
  • He has formed a production company with Omarion and their manager Chris Strokes called, Franchise Boys.
  • He voted Ebony Magazine's Most Eligible Bachelors in June 2005.
  • He sang James Blunt song "You're Beautiful" on the Pepsi Smash Exclusive.
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