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Marshall Mathers Biography Photo Birthname: Marshall Bruce Mathers
Stage name: Eminem
Nickname: Slim Shady,Eminem
Gender: Male
Nationality: United States
Horoscope: Libra
Date of birth: 1972-10-17
Height: 173(5'8'')
Eyes color: green
Hair color: brown
Place of birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Occupation: Rapper, producer, actor
Father: Marshall Bruce Mathers II
Mother: Deborah Mathers
Spouse: Kimberly Anne Scott (14 January 2006 - 19 December 2006) (divorced) 1 child
Kimberly Anne Scott (14 June 1999 - 11 October 2001) (divorced) 1 child

Biography:
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972),better known by his stage name Eminem, is an Oscar and nine time Grammy Award winning American rapper, record producer, and actor. Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born on the 17th October 1972, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Son of a fifteen-year-old mother at the time of his birth and a father who left six month later never to return, Marshall spent his early childhood being shoved back and forth from Kansas City and Detroit. He settled on the Eastside of Detroit when he was 12. Being a rap fan for most of his life, Marshall began rapping at the early age of 4. Rhyming words together, battling schoolmates in the lunchroom brought joy to what was otherwise a painful existence.Eminem was discovered by rapper and producer Dr. Dre, who later signed Mathers to his record label, Aftermath Entertainment.His very first album was titled "Infinite" and, while the album sold less than a thousand copies, it was the gearing up stages for the rapper who became a millionaire. It was then that his daughter, Hailie Jade Scott, was born on December 25th of 1995 with long time girlfriend Kim Scott. His 2000 album, "The Marshall Mathers LP", sold 1.76 million copies in the first week of release in the U.S., a record for a solo artist.Eminem's third major album, The Eminem Show, was released in summer 2002 and proved to be another hit for the rapper reaching number one on the charts and selling well over 1 million copies in its first week of release.The year 2004 saw the release of Eminem's fourth major album, Encore. In 2005, an album manifested itself as a compilation album under the name Curtain Call: The Hits, and was released on December 6, 2005 under Aftermath Entertainment.On December 5, 2006, Eminem released an album compilation entitled Eminem Presents the Re-Up. Eminem called into New York radio station Hot 97 during a 50 Cent interview and confirmed he is hard at work on his first studio album in three years. Dr. Dre said in September 2007 that he will devote two months to work on Eminem's new highly-anticipated album, saying "We'll be trying to get his thing done and work on a few things on my own project".
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