出生日期:1978年11月9日。
2000在Billboard音乐奖上大出风头的Sisqo，以首张专辑《Unleash The Dragon》勇夺年度男艺人、年度新进艺人、年度畅销单曲男艺人、年度节奏蓝调Hip-Hop艺人、年度节奏蓝调Hip-Hop单曲艺人、年度节奏蓝调Hip-Hop新进艺人六项大奖。在如此成功的光环下，2001年Sisqo趋势发行了全新专辑《Return Of Dragon》。
这张原名订为《Return Of The Dragon》的新专辑，最后被浓缩成《Return Of Dragon》。拿掉“the”的理由是“Dragon”不只是个商标或是象征，而被描述为活力。再次深入音乐的Sisqo将“Dragon”定义成一个角色，所以当定名为《Return Of Dragon》时，音乐、活力和Sisqo就已合而为一。
第一张专辑只用了五周就完成的Sisqo，充分展现了他身为歌手的力量。由原搭档Warren Campbell、Al West与新加入的Teddy Riley联手制作，Sisqo的子弟兵LoveHer也在Privacy、Dreams两首单曲崭露头角。新作的音乐风格与前作有着明显的区隔，更接近冠军抒情曲“Incomplete”。在录制新作时，Sisqo尽量与大牌制作人保持距离，希望能突显自我的创作才气。虽然试着脱离Dru Hill(小山丘合唱团)时期的风格，但新专辑还是与这群好友合作了一首“Without You”，以及与与女子节奏蓝调组合LovHer合唱的抒情小品“Dreams”。首支单曲“Can I Live”在节奏上犹如与Thong Song分占宝剑两梢，呈现均衡态势；而Sisqo最喜欢的作品“Infatuated”，曲中的和弦铺排则完全不一样。
Mark Althavean Andrews (born November 9, 1978), known by his stage name Sisqó (stylized as SisQó), is an American R&B singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer and actor. He is the lead singer of R&B group Dru Hill, and has also released solo material. Sisqo's successful debut solo album, Unleash the Dragon (1999), included the hit singles "Thong Song"[1] and "Incomplete". Sisqó is a native ofBaltimore, Maryland.
As a teen, Mark Andrews worked at The Fudge Factory in Baltimore's Inner Harbor with three other young men: Larry Anthony, James "Woody" Green, and Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin. The quartet would be signed as the group Dru Hill to Island Records in 1996.
Andrews graduated from Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School in 1995. He has a daughter, Shaione, who was born in 1995.[3] His second child, son Ryū, was born in 2012.[4]
Sisqó's visual trademarks are his hairstyles and flamboyant stage costumes, which were regularly flashier than those of his groupmates. Over his career as a recording artist, both with and without Dru Hill, Sisqó's hairstyles have included a bleached blond Caesar, a platinum Caesar (colored with silver spray paint), blond cornrows, a neon-red dyed Caesar, and a blond Mohawk. He has an older son named Quintus LaFavor age 17.
Career
After Woody left Dru Hill in 1999 to pursue a solo career, it was decided that the other members would follow suit and issue their own solo albums. Sisqó's solo debut, Unleash the Dragon, was released on Def Soul Records in November 1999. Unleash the Dragon sold moderately at first, until the February 2000 release of its second single, the novelty "Thong Song". A runaway hit, "Thong Song" and its follow-up, "Incomplete", were major hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with "Thong Song" making it to number three, and "Incomplete" going to #1. The success later got Sisqó a doll made of himself by Play Along Toys in 2001.[citation needed]. Solo albums by Jazz and Nokio reached varying levels of completion and were never released.
Conflicts within the group prevented Dru Hill from reuniting as planned in late 2000, and Sisqó set about recording a second solo LP. During this period, Sisqó branched out into hosting the dance competition program Sisqó's Shakedown on MTV, and into film, taking on supporting roles in the films Get Over It (2001) with Kirsten Dunst and Snow Dogs (2002) with Cuba Gooding, Jr.. He also starred as a vampire in Sabrina The Teenage Witch (Season 6 Episode 1). Although his second LP, Return of Dragon, released in June 2001, eventually went platinum, its singles "Can I Live" and "Dance for Me" performed far below expectations (apart from in the United Kingdom, where "Dance for Me" became his third top ten hit), and by 2002, Sisqó was back with Dru Hill, which released its third LP in late 2002. The LP underperformed, and the group was eventually released from their recording contract.
On January 3, 2010, Sisqó participated in the British reality television show Celebrity Big Brother 2010 as a housemate in the competition. He was the fifth contestant to be "evicted" from the Big Brother house on Day 20 (January 22) of the show.
Dru Hill released its third album, InDRUpendence Day, in 2010 as an independent release through Kedar Entertainment. The group also appeared at this time in the reality show Keith Sweat's Platinum House on BET's sister station Centric. In July 2013, Sisqó appeared on the reality show Celebrity Wife Swap, where his girlfriend Elizabeth was "swapped" with the wife of 1990s pop singer Gerardo Mejia.
As of 2014, Sisqó continues to tour, both as a member of Dru Hill and as a solo act. His third solo album, Last Dragon, was released on February 10, 2015.[5] The singles, "A-List" and "L.I.P.s" were released ahead of the album with the latter reaching number 23 on the US Adult R&B charts, thus becoming Sisqo's first charting US single since 2001's "Can I Live".
