Artis Leon Ivey Jr known professionally as Coolio was an American rapper actor screenwriter
and record producer he was best known for his 1995 Grammy award-winning hit single Gangsta's
Paradise as well as other singles Fantastic Voyage 1994-1234 something new in 1996 and
see you when you get there in 1997. he achieved mainstream success in the mid to late 1990s with
his albums It Takes a Thief in 1994 Gangsta's Paradise in 1995 and my soul in 1997. Coolio
provided the opening track ah here it goes for the 1996 Nickelodeon television series Keenan and Kell
he also created a web series titled cooking with Coolio and released a cookbook he originally Rose
to fame as a member of the gangsta rap group WC and the Mad Circle alongside IWC and his brother
crazy Tunes at the time of his death Julio had an estimated net worth of 1.5 million US Dollars
about Coolio's early life artist Leon Ivey Jr was born on August 1st 1963 in Monessen Pennsylvania
and later moved to Compton California he was the son of Jackie Slater and Artis Leon Ivey
senior after attending Compton Community College he worked in jobs such as volunteer firefighting
and security at Los Angeles International Airport before becoming a rapper Coolio was
five feet seven inches tall or 1.73 meters tall about Coolio's personal life Coolio was married
to josefa Salinas from 1996 until 2000. the rapper is said to have had numerous children
with multiple women daughters are Tisha Ivy Brandy Ivy Jackie Ivey and Son artist Ivy
III his other children include Gerdes Ivy Milan Ivy Darius Ivey Zane Ivy and twins Kate Ivey and
Shane Ivy Annabella Chapman also shared a son with Coolio while at a friend's house on September 28
2022 Coolio was discovered unresponsive on a bathroom floor First Responders pronounced
him dead on their arrival police have opened an investigation into his death though Foul Play
is not suspected and Coolio's manager stated he appeared to have suffered a cardiac arrest
the rapper was reportedly dating Mimi Ivy at the time of his death he was a spokesperson for The
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America he said that he and his children are asthma sufferers
in 1998 a court in Bob blingen near Stuttgart sentenced coulia to six months probation and
fined him seventeen thousand dollars after convicting him of being an accessory to robbery
and causing bodily injury in 2017 Coolio was denied entry into Singapore upon landing at Changi
International Airport Singapore's immigration and checkpoints Authority declined to comment
on the reason for the denial citing reasons of confidentiality Coolio had been traveling from
Beijing to Singapore to perform at a Formula One concert event about Julio's music career Coolio
recorded the singles what you gonna do and What Makes You Dance Force Groove in the late 1980s in
1991 he joined the group WC in the Mad Circle who released the album ain't a single thing changed
later that year in 1994 Coolio was signed by Tommy Boy records and his first solo album It Takes a
Thief was released in July of that year the album went platinum in the U.S and gold in Canada and
the single Fantastic Voyage was certified by two times Platinum by the riaa and reach number three
on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1995 Coolio and R B artist LV records recorded the songs Gangsters
Paradise for the film Dangerous Minds the song was 1995's best-selling single on the Billboard Hot
100 and it won Coolio a Grammy and was included on Billboard's greatest songs of all time list
as well as VH1's 100 greatest songs of hip-hop and nme magazine 100 best songs of the 1990s
list about Coolio's film and television career Coolio made his acting debut in a 1995 episode
of the Parenthood and within the next three years he had also appeared on all that space above and
beyond Sabrina the Teenage Witch duck man Muppets tonight and the nanny during the 1990s he also
sang the theme song for Nickelodeon's Keenan and Kel Coolio appeared in the film's Batman and Robin
in 1997 and Alan Smithy film burn Hollywood burn and 1997 and belly in 1998. he also tried his
hand at reality TV appearing on the Fear Factor in 2001 Rachel versus guy Celebrity Cook-Off in 2012
Celebrity Wife Swap in 2013 and the British series Celebrity Big Brother in 2009. he also had a few
of his own shows starring on Oxygen's Coolio's rules and on another Channel he had cooking with
Coolio in 2008. in more recent years Coolio appeared on the TV series BTS American Hustle
Life in 2014 and black Jesus in 2014 and lent his voice to adult swims Squidbillies in 2017.
about Coolio's Awards and nominations Julio's 1995 song gangsters paradise received several
Awards including best rap solo performance at the Grammy Awards and best rap video and best
video from a film at the MTV Video Music Awards Coolio himself received several Awards including
favorite rap hip-hop artists at the American Music Awards in 1996 overall Coolio received five awards
from 14 nominations about Coolio's car collection Coolio owned a Maserati Ghibli a Cadillac Escalade
and a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon well that's about it for this video thanks so much for watching
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