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| Birth Name(s) : Wade Robson |
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Wade Jeremy William Robson (born September 17, 1982) is an Australian dancer, choreographer, producer and songwriter. He began performing as a dancer at the age of five, and as a child worked as a back-up dancer for Michael Jackson. He is also an award-winning choreographer and has directed music videos and world tours for music artists, most notably for 'N Sync and Britney Spears. Robson has found success as a competition judge, both for his own MTV show, The Wade Robson Project, and the televised competition So You Think You Can Dance. He won an Emmy for his choreography on the latter show 2007.
Robson was born September 17, 1982, in Brisbane, Australia, to Lynette Joy and Dennis Leslie Robson. He has an older brother, Shane, and an older sister, Chantal. According to his mother, she played Michael Jackson's Thriller non-stop while she was pregnant with him. Robson began dancing at the age of two, and when he saw the video to the hugely popular "Thriller" music video, he had it memorized by the time he was three. He appeared on the Australian TV talent show "New Faces4" in 1986. He performed a dance routine of the Jackson hit, "Smooth Criminal", complete with a miniature version of the outfit as depicted in the video. He won the competition, and the prize was a chance to meet Jackson. When Jackson himself toured Australia the following year for the Bad tour, Robson's routines and costumes came to Jackson's attention. Jackson was so impressed, he invited Robson to perform at his Brisbane concert.
Robson was in a talent troup called Johnny Young's Talent school, and the group did fourteen shows a week, usually at venues like shopping malls. It was a performance, however, at Disneyland at the age of seven that sparked Robson's interest in America. So when he was nine, he, his mother and his brother made the move there. Jackson assisted them in the move, and recruited Robson to appear in three of Jackson's music videos: "Black or White", "Jam" and "Heal the World".
Before long, and at the tender age of 11, Robson had an agent. They formed a singing group called Kaos with another young boy, and by the end of the year put out an album with Sony. The following year, he was teaching dance classes in Hollywood. He formed a troupe of dancing children which performed internationally. He received his first choreography job for the R&B group Immature at fourteen. The job led to others, for artists such as Britney Spears. Being a self-described "short little white kid", his clients were sometimes hesitant to follow his direction. When Spears first interviewed Robson to choreograph her tour, she exclaimed "He's a friggin' baby!", as she had expected him to be in his 30s or 40s. But his talent often won such clients over.
Robson is the creator and host of MTV's The Wade Robson Project, a talent search competition for hip hop dancers. The program was sponsored by Juice Batteries.
Dance clothing company Power T Dance developed a line of name-brand consumer dance shoes with Robson. The shoes were distributed in the U.S. through the Ralph Libonati Co.
Robson has joined several other high profile choreographers, such as Mia Michaels and Shane Sparks on the PULSE tour, a series of nationwide weekend workshops designed to give rising commercial dancers the chance to train under top choreographers.Robson giving feedback to contestants after a performance on the July 18, 2007 episode of So You Think You Can Dance
Robson co-wrote the song "Movin' On" for the Backstreet Boys album, Never Gone, with Backstreet member Howie Dorough. The song was released as a bonus track.
Robson has also written songs for the singing groups Dream and Youngstown. He also remixed two of Mandy Moore's songs from her debut album for her second album, I Wanna Be With You.
In 2003, Michael Jackson was arrested on charges of child molestation. Starting from age seven, Robson was invited several times to Jackson's Neverland Ranch, where several boys, including Robson and child actor Macaulay Culkin, would all sleep together in Jackson's bed. A member of Jackson's staff testified that she had seen Jackson behaving inappropriately towards Robson, such as taking showers together. Robson publicly denied any wrongdoing in November 2003, and he, along with his mother and sister, testified in Jackson's defense at the People v. Jackson trial in 2005. Jackson was eventually acquitted. According to Australian newspaper The Age, Robson and Jackson remain friends. In a 2003 interview, Robson said of Jackson, "His heart is so genuine. He has no concept of a normal life."
On August 13, 2005, Robson married fashion designer Amanda Rodriguez in Hawaii. Jackson was among those invited to the wedding. |
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