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Vanilla Ice
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American rapper (born 1967)
OverviewAI-generated
Vanilla Ice is an American male artist who has been active since 1985. He performs under the pseudonyms V-Ice, The Iceman, and Bi-Polar. His musical output spans genres including hardcore hip hop, hip hop, nu metal, pop rap, and rap rock. On Last.fm, his music is tagged with rap, Hip-Hop, 90s, hip hop, and rapcore.
He has published two works, with "Ice, Ice by ice" listed among his top titles. Crossref records five works associated with him. The artist maintains an official website and has 1,120,000 social media followers. Last.fm data indicates 903,254 listeners and 4,523,879 plays. He is referenced by 710 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Ice
- Ice by ice
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1967-10-31
Discography
- Hooked1990
- Play That Funky Music1990
- To the Extreme1990
- Ice Ice Baby1990
- Cool as Ice (Everybody Get Loose)1991
- I Love You1991
- Rollin’ in My 5.01991
- Satisfaction1991
- Roll ’Em Up1994
- Mind Blowin1994
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 903,254
- Total plays
- 4,523,879
Tags
Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967), best known by his stage name Vanilla Ice is an American rapper. Born in Dallas, Texas, United States, and raised in Texas and South Florida, Van Winkle started his musical career in 1988 and released his debut album, 'Hooked', in 1989 through Ichiban Records. He soon signed a contract with SBK Records, which released a reformatted version of that album under the title 'To the Extreme'. Van Winkle's single "Ice Ice Baby" was the first hip-hop sin
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- High-resolution record of Northern Hemisphere climate extending into the last interglacial period
· 2004 · cited 2,703x
- Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis
· 2005 · cited 952x
- Three-dimensional X-ray structural microscopy with submicrometre resolution
· 2002 · cited 666x
- Climate instability during the last interglacial period recorded in the GRIP ice core
· 1993 · cited 655x
- Developing a community of inquiry instrument: Testing a measure of the Community of Inquiry framework using a multi-institutional sample
· 2008 · cited 647x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Robert Matthew Van Winkle , ( 1967-10-31 ) October 31, 1967 (age 58) , Dallas , Texas, U.S.
- Origin
- Dallas, Texas, U.S., Miami, Florida, U.S.
- Genres
- Hip hop rap rock nu metal rap metal
- Occupations
- Rapper actor record producer singer television host
- Years active
- 1985–present
- Labels
- Ichiban SBK EMI Republic Universal Liquid 8 Ultrax Cleopatra Radium Psychopathic
- Website
- www .vanillaice .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Matthew
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Dallas
- Occupation
- record producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- rap metal
- Instrument
- keyboard instrument
- Record label
- Cleopatra Records
- Official website
- www.vanillaice.com
- Image
- Vanilla Ice 2010 (cropped).jpg
Show 13 more facts
- Commons category
- Vanilla Ice
- date of birth
- 1967-10-31
- topic's main category
- Category:Vanilla Ice
- Commons gallery
- Vanilla Ice
- start of work period
- 1985-00-00
- pseudonym
- Vanilla Ice
- nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song
- social media followers
- 1120000
- birth name
- רוברט מתיו ואן וינקל
- name in native language
- Vanilla Ice
- writing language
- English language
- unmarried partner
- Madonna
- location of creation
- Miami
Sources (10)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967), known professionally as Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, singer, actor, and television host. Born in Dallas and raised in Miami, he was the first solo white rapper to achieve commercial success, following the 1990 release of his best-known hit "Ice Ice Baby". He is credited with breaking down racial barriers in rap and hip-hop for future white rappers, most notably Eminem.
Ice released his debut album, Hooked, on the independent Ichiban Records before signing a contract with SBK Records, a record label of the EMI Group, which released a reformatted version under the title To the Extreme; it became the fastest-selling hip hop album of all time and "Ice Ice Baby" was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard Hot 100. Followed by the live album Extremely Live (1991), Ice made a cameo appearance on the film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) where he performed "Ninja Rap", which he co-wrote. He was soon offered and starred in his own film, Cool as Ice (1991), which included the single "Cool as Ice (Everybody Get Loose)" with Naomi Campbell; the film itself was a box office failure.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vanilla Ice” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.