Craig Ashley David (born 5 May 1981) is an English singer, songwriter and rapper and record producer who rose to fame in 1999, featuring on the single "Re-Rewind" by Artful Dodger. David\'s debut studio album, Born to Do It, was released in 2000, after which he has released a further five studio albums and worked with a variety of artists such as: Tinchy Stryder, Kano, and Jay Sean. David has 20 UK Top 40 singles, and seven UK Top 40 albums, selling over 15,000,000 records worldwide as a solo artist.\n', '

David has been nominated for thirteen Brit Awards: four times for Best British Male, and twice received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.\n', '

David was born in Southampton, Hampshire, the son of Tina (née Loftus), a retail assistant at Superdrug, and George David, a carpenter, and grew up in the Holyrood estate. David\'s father is Afro-Grenadian and David\'s mother is Anglo-Jewish and related to the founders of the Accurist watch-making company; David\'s maternal grandfather was an Orthodox Jew and his maternal grandmother a convert to Judaism. David\'s parents separated when he was eight and he was brought up by his mother. He attended Bellemoor School and Southampton City College.\n', '

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