Felicia Pearson

Infobox musical artist
Name = Felicia "Snoop" Pearson
Background = solo_singer


Img_capt = Felicia Pearson photo shoot for "Grace After Midnight"
Birth_name = Felicia Pearson
Alias = Snoop From The Wire
Origin = flagicon|USA Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Born = birth date and age|1980|5|18
Genre = Hip-Hop
Occupation = Actress, Author, Hip Hop Artist
Years_active = 2004-present
Label = Dumout Entertainment
Associated = Roberson's Artist Management
URL = [http://www.ra-management.com www.ra-management.com] , [http://www.myspace.com/bmoresnoop www.myspace.com/bmoresnoop]

Felicia "Snoop" Pearson (born May 18, 1980) is an American actress, author, and rapper. She is best known for playing a character named after herself on "The Wire".

Biography

Pearson was born premature to two drug-addicted and incarcerated parents and brought up in an East Baltimore foster home. Doctors did not expect her to live due to her birth weight of 3 lbs. She was so small she was fed with an eyedropper until she could be fed normally. Instead of attending school, Pearson worked as a drug dealer. At the age of 14, Snoop was sentenced to 8 years in prison for the second degree murder of Okia Toomer. She said her life turned around at 18, when a man she called Uncle Lonly, a local drug dealer who looked out for her and sent her money in prison, was shot and killed. It was he who had given her the nickname "Snoop" because she reminded him of Charlie Brown’s beagle Snoopy in the comic strip "Peanuts". She finished school while behind bars. After earning her GED in prison, Pearson was released in 2000. She landed a local job making car bumpers, she said, but was fired two weeks later after her employer learned she had a prison record.

Pearson is openly gay. [cite web|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/15/AR2007031501664_4.html|author=Teresa Wiltz|title=The Role of Her Life|publisher="The Washington Post"|date=2007-03-19|accessdate=2007-04-12] [cite web|url=http://www.danaroc.com/inspiring_032006snooppearson.html|author=Dana Roc|title=Inspiring People: HBO series The Wire's Snoop Pearson|publisher=danaroc.com|accessdate=2007-04-12]

infobox Book
name = Grace After Midnight
title_orig =
translator =


image_caption =
author = Felicia Pearson (Author), David Ritz (Contributor)
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country =
language =
series =
subject = Memoir
publisher = Grand Central Publishing
release_date = November 2007
media_type = Print (hardcover)
pages = 240
isbn = ISBN 0-446-19518-9
preceded_by =
followed_by =

Acting career

Pearson met Michael K. Williams, who plays Omar Little on "The Wire", in a Baltimore club. He invited her to come to the set one day. He introduced her to the writers and the producers, and she was offered a role in the series.

Music career

Pearson was featured in a song "It's a Stick Up" with Tony Yayo and Mazaradi FOX. The music video for the song was inspired by "The Wire".

Video cameos

* Rick Ross feat. T-Pain - The Boss
* Rick Ross feat. Nelly & Avery Storm - Here I Am
* Ace Hood feat. Rick Ross & T-Pain - Cash Flow

References

*All Hip Hop News. " [http://allhiphop.com/blogs/features/archive/2007/01/10/18133796.aspx "The Wire Week: Felicia Pearson (Snoop)"] ", AllHipHop.com. Retrieved August 16, 2007.

External links

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* [http://myPPK.com/go/feliciapearson.aspx Power Press Kit]