Joseph Allen Pearson (born September 19, 1991) is an American pop and R&B singer and actor from

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, lives in San Diego, California. Joey began performing at the age of nine. Pearson was a semi-finalist on the renewed United States nationally syndicated talent show, '' Star Search'', starring Arsenio Hall but has also appeared on a Christmas episode of

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' talk show, performed at Universal Studios in

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, The Del Mar Fair located in San Diego, and performed twice at the famed House of Blues in Hollywood, CA, among other venues. He earned awards from Ed McMahon's ''Next Big Star'' internet contest, a KidsTalk Young Achievers Award and a Billy Gilman Billyheads Rising Star Award. Joey is an animal lover, animal right's activist and vegetarian. Joey is represented by Josquin Des Pres, producer, songwriter, best-selling author and former Warner Chappell songwriter and co-writer with

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and is also represented by Scott Carlson, manager of the rock band Veruca Salt as well as Corey Haim and Corey Feldman, among others. Joey categorizes himself as a pop/r&b/soul singer and musician and cites as his biggest influences,

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, Otis Redding, Curtis Mayfield, Ray Charles,

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, and more currently, John Legend, and

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. Joey continues to sing in and around the San Diego area in his local church and for the school where he is employed. He also frequently posts songs on his Facebook account, accompanying himself on the piano.

Discography

Albums

*'' Something to Say'', 2002 *''

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'', 2003 *'' Authentic'', 2006

EPs

*''

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'', 2004

Television

*'' The Jenny Jones Show'' (2000) *'' Star Search'' (2002)

External links

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1991 births Living people American child singers American male pop singers American contemporary R&B singers Participants in American reality television series Singers from San Diego Place of birth missing (living people) People from Hinesville, Georgia Singers from Georgia (U.S. state) 21st-century American singers 21st-century American male singers {{US-pop-singer-stub