T-Pain (Faheem Najm), is an American hip hop, R&B Singer-songwriter and producer who has been noted for using the auto-tune effect in his singing. T-Pain won his first Grammy Award for being featured in the Kanye West song, "Good Life". T-Pain was b in born (September 30, 1985) Tallahassee, Florida to entrepreneur Muslim parents Shasheem Najm and Aliyah Najm. At the age of ten, Faheem reworked his bedroom into a small studio with a keyboard, beat machine and four-track recorder, and began composing music. Faheem later graduated from James S. Rickards High School. Prior to becoming a solo singer, Faheem was part of the Tallahassee rap group Nappy Headz, allowing T-Pain to start his career as a solo artist.
In 2002, he founded his own label, Hard & B, and soon caught the spotlight as a solo artist when his song "I'm Fucked Up", a reworked version of Akon's "Locked Up", gained popularity in the region. Akon's "Locked Up", gained popularity in the region. Akon noticed the song and signed T-Pain to his newly formed Konvict Music record label.
T-Pain released his solo debut title single, "I'm Sprung", in August 2005. His debut album, Rappa Ternt Sanga, ("rapper turned singer") was released on November 6, 2005, under Konvict Music.T-Pain has released his second album Epiphany on the 5th of June, 2007, that features "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" and "Bartender" featuring Akon. This album has shipped platinum.
So far(2008), T-Pain and his label mate Tay Dizm has been featured on Dolla (rapper)'s "Who the Fuck is That?" & 2 Pistols "She Got It". T-Pain has also appeared on Rick Ross's "The Boss", Lil Mama's "Shawty Get Loose" with Chris Brown & Mariah Carey's "Migrate" and had featured songs on the Step Up 2 The Streets soundtrack which included "Church", "Low" (with Flo Rida) and wrote "Lives in the Da Club" by Sophia Fresh ft. Jay Lyriq. He produced some of Ciara's New Album "Fantasy Ride".
in Acting: T-Pain will have a recurring role as a drug dealer on the FX series, The Shield.
Genre(s) Pop rap, Contemporary R&B, crunk & B, hip-hop, snap
