Corbin Bleu

Corbin Bleu Reivers (born 21 Februar 1989) is an American actor an sangster. He begound actin professionally in the late 1990s afore risin tae prominence in the late 2000s fur his leadin role as Chad Danforth in the High School Musical trilogy (2006–2008). Sangs frae the films chairtit warldwide an aa, wi the sang "I Don't Dance" peakin inside the Tap 70 o the Billboard Hot 100. Durin this time, he forby starned in the Disney Channel Oreeginal Movie Jump In! (2007) an the film To Write Love on Her Arms (2015). He competit in the 17t saison o Dancing with the Stars.

Bleu haes pursued a muisic career an his debut album Another Side wis lowsed in 2007, whilk includit the hit "Push It to the Limit". The album debuted an peaked at nummer 36 on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chairt, sellin 18,000 unit in its furst week. His seicont album, Speed of Light, wis lowsed in 2009. He returned tae televeesion, starnin in the short-lived Ashton Kutcher–produced CW series The Beautiful Life: TBL (2009) an the movie Free Style (2009). He haes kythed in the films The Little Engine That Could (2011), Scary or Die (2012), Nurse 3D (2013), Sugar (2013), The Monkey's Paw (2013), Walk. Ride. Rodeo. (2019), Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story (2022), an Camp Hideout (2023).

In 2010, Bleu mak his Broadway debut as Usnavi in the muisical In the Heights. In 2012, he returned tae Broadway in the revival o Godspell. In 2013, he wis cast as Jeffrey King in the short-lived online revival o the daytime soap One Life to Live. In 2016, Bleu pleyed Ted Hanover in the Broadway company o Holiday Inn, the New Irving Berlin Musical. He subsequently signed a recordin contract wi Ghostlight Records, tae distribute his Holiday Inn soondtrack muisic, lowsed in 2017. In 2019, he returned tae pley Bill Calhoun/Lucentio in the Broadway company o Kiss Me, Kate. He subsequently signed a recordin contract wi Ghostlight Records, tae distribute his Kiss Me, Kate soondtrack muisic, lowsed on 7 Juin 2019. Bleu later mak his West End debut in the European premiere o The Great Gatsby at the Lunnon Colosseum as Nick Carraway in Aprile 2025.

Early life

Corbin Bleu wis born in the New York Ceety burgh o Brooklyn, the son o Martha (née Callari) an David Reivers (born 1958), an actor. His mither is Italian-American an his faither is Jamaican-American. He haes three yunger sisters. As a bairn, Bleu studied dance fur mony yeirs, focusin on ballet an jazz. His great-uncle is actor Joseph Callari.

Bleu appeared in televeesion commercials stairtin at age twa, fur products sic as Life cereal, Bounty, Hasbro an Nabisco. He begound takin jazz an ballet classes, usually as the anly lad in the class. Bi age fower he wis a model wi the Ford Modelin Agency in New York. He appeared in print ads fur stores sic as Macy's, Gap, Target an Toys R Us an in fashion spreids in Child, Parents, an American Baby magazines, as weel as haein his eemage on toys an gemme packagin.

At age sax, Bleu appeared in his furst professional theatre production, at The Toun Haw. This three-concert series, creautit, written, an hostit bi Scott Siegel, teuk place ower ane weekend an includit a tribute tae David Merrick. Bleu pleyed an abandoned hameless mute in the pley Tiny Tim is Dead.

Bleu graduatit frae Los Angeles Coonty Heich Schuil fur the Airts. He trained in dancin at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy an attendit the Fiorello H. LaGuardia Heich Schuil o Muisic & Airt an Performin Airts as a theatre major, follaein in his mither's fitsteps. Bleu graduatit frae heich schuil in 2007 an wis admittit tae Stanford Varsity, but declined tae matriculate.

Personal life

He is marriet tae Sasha Clements.