Michael Harvey

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Michael Harvey, Jr, aka MC Harvey, (born 1 May 1979, Plymouth, England) is an English musician, actor and former non-League footballer.

Biography

Harvey is the son of Michael Harvey, a bodybuilder and former Gladiators participant "Bullit".^[1] Harvey (Snr) owns a record label, Artiste Promotion & Management (APM), to which Harvey was once signed.

Harvey was one of the founder members of UK garage collective So Solid Crew. After leaving the band, he released his first solo single, 'Get Up and Move', which went into the charts at number 24. His debut album Back to the Beginning was released in 2008 and produced singles 'Excuse Me Miss', which featured Romeo and Asher D, and 'If I Was Your Man', which featured Nathan. The album failed to chart. Harvey has also appeared on reality TV shows The Games on Channel Four in 2003 (which he won) and several series of The Match on Sky One. He has also appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and has hosted the dance competition Bump 'n Grind on the youth cable channel Trouble and Footballers' Pads on Sky One.

He featured in the 2005 video game FIFA Street as the match commentator.

He made his theatre début in London's West End in the musical Daddy Cool in 2006.

In 2007, Harvey appeared on The Weakest Link Music Extravaganza Special, and was the fourth contestant voted off.

In 2008, he participated in Channel 4 show Celebrity Come Dine with Me, along with Jonathan Ansell, Tamara Beckwith and Lynsey de Paul, finishing joint first with Ansell. He joined the line-up of Angie Le Mar's play The Brothers at the Hackney Empire in 2008. The play was broadcast on MTV Base. He also had a hit show on MTV Base called The Young Gods Of Comedy. He visited Robertsbridge Community College as a motivational speaker about the music industry, singing songs and inviting students to show their rapping skills.

He appeared in the 2010 British gangster film The Big I Am as Robbo. In 2011, Harvey starred in Jason Barrett's British feature film The Naked Poet, playing Richard.

Personal life

Harvey began dating singer Alesha Dixon in 2000 and the two were married in June 2005. In November 2006, the couple split following Harvey's affair with singer Javine Hylton.^[2] They would later star in a West End version of Daddy Cool.^[3] Hylton gave birth to their daughter, Angel Hylton Harvey, in February 2008.^[4]

Football

Harvey supports Liverpool FC and has also been a non-league footballer. He has played for AFC Wimbledon, Aldershot Town and Lewes. He was signed by the Conference South side St Albans City in 2007 but left because of work commitments.

References

External links

• Official Myspace
• Biography on BBC website
• Daddy Cool website
• BBC: So Solid Crew MC Harvey