This is an accepted version of this page Tyrese Darnell Gibson (born December 30, 1978)[2][3] is an American R&B singer and actor from Los Angeles, California.

The latter was led by the single "How You Gonna Act Like That", which peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and remains his highest-charting song.

[4] Gibson had his first starring role in John Singleton's coming-of-age hood film Baby Boy (2001), and gained widespread recognition as Roman Pearce in the Fast & Furious franchise.

Gibson reunited with Singleton for the action film Four Brothers (2005) and plays Robert Epps in the Transformers franchise.

[7][8] While growing up in Watts on 113th Street during the late 80s, Gibson was exposed to gangs, with some of his childhood friends becoming members of the Crips.

In his autobiography, Tyrese stated it was an older gangster named "Dirtbike Fred" that encouraged him to take a different path.

Gibson's career began when he auditioned for a Coca-Cola commercial at the suggestion of his high school music teacher.

[11] Afterwards, he released the second and highest-charting single "Sweet Lady" which became the album's biggest hit, reaching No.

In early 2013, it was announced and confirmed after much speculation that Gibson, Ginuwine, and Tank would be releasing their debut collaboration album, to be distributed by Atlantic Records.

1 on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 77,000 copies, making it Gibson's first number one album of his career.

However, his Fast & Furious co-star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson called it "the biggest piece of dogshit that I've ever heard".

[17][18] In October 2017, Gibson announced he was working on a project titled Identity Theft and returning to his alter-ego Black Ty.

"[19] The project however was shelved and retooled into an R&B album titled Beautiful Pain, rumored to be released in late 2023.

A single titled "Don't Think You Ever Loved", which features Lenny Kravitz and background vocals by Le'Andria Johnson, was released in February 2023.

Gibson has a recurring role in two of the highest-grossing film series: Fast & Furious and Transformers.

He first played Pearce alongside his best friend, Paul Walker, in 2003's 2 Fast 2 Furious, his second collaboration with Singleton.

In 2007, with the cast of Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Megan Fox, Anthony Anderson and Jon Voight, with star Shia LaBeouf, Transformers went on to make nearly $710 million worldwide.

[27][28] Gibson was supposed to return as Epps in Transformers: The Last Knight (2017),[29] but was unable to appear due to scheduling conflicts with The Fate of the Furious.

[35][36] In March 2019, Gibson joined Jared Leto in Sony's Spider-Man spinoff Morbius.

Run titled Manology: Secrets of Your Man's Mind Revealed, which also went on to be a New York Times best seller.

[52][53] On September 9, 2024, Gibson was arrested following an appearance in Fulton County Court where he was issued a contempt charge after it was found that he was failing to pay child support to his ex-wife Samantha Lee.