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L'il Luther
5+ albums
dancemusical theatermusicalStevie Wondersongwriter
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Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Napoleon Luther Means, aka L'il Luther, began singing at the age of four in an elementary school glee club. Soon he was performing with church and district choirs which gave way to singing and dancing in summer stock and musical theater. He realized at 7 that nothing would make his soul breathe as much as being under the lights, as he found himself singing and dancing alongside the great Marion Anderson in her last onstage performance, with his professional debut in Arthur Mitchell's "Doin' It". Six years later finding that acting held for him the glimmer he searched for, he'd become immersed in the theater, pouring himself into it wholeheartedly as he moved from the academic/artistic program at Philadelphia's A.M.Y. Center City to the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts.Though acting now seemed his chief focus, Napoleon would never stop singing, even dancing again later with Howard University's Dance Ensemble. "I wanted to die a dancer but many things kept me away from making it my one and only love in performance." Napoleon finally made the move to New York after years of commuting to the city for work as an actor and model, doing voice-over and commercial work for clients like Coors Lite and Captain Morgan's while trying to break into film, all the while maintaining a stint with QVC's fashion channel "On-Q" at their headquarters in Westchester, just outside Philadelphia where he lived and worked at other
