Mavrick Abbott 
Is there any individual who doesn’t really know Shaffer Chimere Smith, prominently known by the stage name Ne-Yo? He is an artist, musician, artist, on-screen character and record maker who picked up acclaim thus a lot of fame after a melody he composed for Mario, Let Me Love You, became a 2004 hit single. The melody turned into a main Hot 100 hit on the Billboard outline and was later positioned the eighth-best single of the decade.
The achievement of this collection turned into a limit just as a stage for Ne-Yo to ride into a fruitful music vocation. Before the finish of 2009, Ne-Yo had three collections surprisingly – seven of his singles, just as five others in which he showed up as an included craftsman, were positioning the top ten in the country’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop graph.
The gifted musician additionally wrote Rihanna’s Take a Bow, Beyoncé’s Irreplaceable and Jennifer Hudson’s Spotlight which was all uber hits. He additionally co-composed Marques Houston’s That Girl, as well as Christina Milian’s I’m Sorry.
Ne-Yo’s Bio, Age
Ne-Yo was born Shaffer Chimere Smith in Camden, Arkansas October 18, 1979, and brought up in Las Vegas, Nevada. His dad is of African-American and Chinese plunge while his mom is African-American.
Smith’s folks got separated from when he was exceptionally little, so he was raised without any assistance by his mother who moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, after the separation. He went to Las Vegas Academy.
Ne-Yo’s Height
He has a height of 5 feet 8 inches and weighs 74 kg. His hair color is black and has dark brown eyes.
Ne-Yo’s Career
After the gathering disbanded in 2000, Ne-Yo was marked on by Columbia Records which dropped him before his first collection which he had just recorded could be discharged. It was during this period that Marques Houston heard the song That Girl, which was solitary from his album, re-recorded the melody and discharged it as a solitary in 2003. It was the arrival of this single really reported Ne-Yo as an extraordinary lyricist and the next years saw him composing various other astounding tunes which became significant hits in the end.
Asides the Rihanna’s Take a Bow, Beyoncé’s Irreplaceable and Jennifer Hudson’s Spotlight, Ne-Yo likewise gets credits for contributing melodies to craftsman-like Musiq, Mary J. Blige, Faith Evans, B2K, among others. Be that as it may, his leap forward accompanied the accomplishment of Mario’s single Let Me Love You.
After performing for the mark’s administrators of Def Jam, the CEO of the label, Jay-Z signed Ne-Yo on the name and by the next year, he discharged his presentation album In My Own Words, by means of the label. So Sick –a solitary really sold more than 301,000 duplicates in its first week and peaked at number one on Billboard 200. His second album, Because of You, was discharged in 2007. The collection sold 251,000 duplicates in the U.S and topped one on the Billboard 200.
Ne-Yo’s third album, Year of the Gentleman, was discharged in 2008. The initial two singles from the album Closer and Miss Independent peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. The collection got a Grammy designation for Best Contemporary R&B Album and Album of the Year at the 2009 Grammy Awards. The single Closer also got named for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and Miss Independent for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song.
Around the same time (2009), he has positioned the 57th Artist of the 2000s decade by Billboard. After this time, Ne-Yo went low for quite a while just to make a return 2010 with Libra Scale – a collection he said was motivated by comic books, sci-fi, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson’s most yearning chronicles.
In 2012, Ne-Yo marked to Motown and was named the name’s Senior Vice President of A&R, at that point came the released R.E.D.(“Realizing Every Dream”). The collection appeared at number four on the Billboard 200.
In May 2017, he discharged two singles, Earn Your Love and Another Love Song. In July 2017, he made an appearance in the satire film Girls Trip, close by stars like Jada Pinkett Smith, Regina Hall and Queen Latifah.
The artist has done coordinated efforts with different specialists, including Celine Dion, Akon, Cher Lloyd, David Guetta, and more. The gifted artist/lyricist named his music influencers as Usher Raymond, Luther Vandross, R. Kelly, Blackstreet, Michael Jackson, and Babyface.
Who Is Ne-Yo’s Wife? Kids
The R&B star is hitched to beautiful Crystal Renay (model). The couple got hitched in February 2016 and respected their first youngster together Shaffer Chimere Smith, Jr. the next month.
In December 2017, the couple declared they were expecting their second youngster together.
Ne-Yo has two different children Mason Evan (conceived October 9, 2011) and Madilyn Grace (conceived November 12, 2010) from his past relationship with Monyetta Shaw.
Ne-Yo’s Net Worth
At present, he has a net worth of $16 million.
Is Ne-Yo active on Facebook?
He is active on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. He has 3.2 million followers on Instagram and has 6.74 million followers on Twitter. Likewise, he has more than 16 million followers on Facebook.
Why was Ne-Yo Arrested?
He was captured in 2008 for wild driving. In 2011, Lindsay Lohan sued him nearby DJ Afrojack and rapper Pitbull, guaranteeing the verses of their song Give Me Everything referenced her by name. They won the claim after the court decided that Pitbull’s utilization of the name was ensured by the First Amendment and that the tune scarcely referenced her name.
Facts of Shaffer Chimere Smith
- Gender Male
- full nameShaffer Chimere Smith
- birthplaceCamden, Arkansas
- Date of Birth October 18, 1979
- Age 45 years 0 months
- Horoscope Libra
- Lucky Number 9
- Lucky Stone Peridot
- Lucky Color Blue
- Best Match for Marriage Gemini
- ethnicity / ethnic backgroundBlack
- nationalityAmerican
- net worth$16 Million
- weight74 kg
- heightHe has a height of 5 feet 8 inches and weighs 74 kg. His hair color is black and has dark brown Ne-Yo height
- hair colorBlack
- eye colorDark Brown
