| Kevin McHale | |
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 McHale at the Glee premiere party in Santa Monica, California |
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| Born | Kevin Michael McHale June 14, 1988 Plano, Texas, USA |
| Occupation | Actor, Singer |
Kevin Michael McHale (born June 14, 1988)[1] is an American actor and pop singer. Formerly of boy band NLT, McHale is best known for his recent role as Artie Abrams in the Fox hit television series Glee.
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McHale was born in Plano, Texas. Before becoming an actor, McHale joined an American Boy Group, NLT, which is short for "Not Like Them". The R&B group was discovered by Chris Stokes. On March 13, 2007 they released their first single "That Girl". The band had a guest appearance in Bratz: The Movie. On April 30, 2009, group member Travis Garland announced that NLT had split.
McHale's acting credits include a 2007 appearance on NBC's The Office in the season 4 episode "Launch Party", where he played a pizza delivery boy who is taken hostage by Steve Carell's character, Michael Scott. In 2008, McHale was on HBO's True Blood for three episodes as Neil Jones, a coroner's assistant. Kevin was also in three episodes of Nickelodeon's hit show Zoey 101 as Dooley.
McHale stars on Glee as Artie Abrams, a member of the McKinley High glee club who uses a wheelchair. Although you mostly see him in a wheel chair, McHale is a dancer and has responded that it was hard to control his feet from moving along with the music while he was on the set. He had his first solo single on Glee singing "Dancing With Myself" in the episode "Wheels."
| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album | ||||||||||||||
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| US | AUS | CAN | |||||||||||||||
| 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| "Dancing with Myself" | – | – | – | Glee: The Music, Volume 1 | |||||||||||||
| "—" denotes did not chart, or was not released. | |||||||||||||||||
| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album | ||||||||||||||
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| US | AUS | CAN | |||||||||||||||
| 2009 | |||||||||||||||||
| "Don't Stop Believin'"a | 4 | 5 | 50 | Glee: The Music, Volume 1 | |||||||||||||
| "Gold Digger"b | – | 59[2] | – | ||||||||||||||
| "Push It"a | – | 60[2] | – | ||||||||||||||
| "Somebody to Love"c | 28 | 65[3] | 33 | ||||||||||||||
| "It's My Life / Confessions, Pt. II"d | 30 | 22 | 25 | ||||||||||||||
| "Keep Holding On"c | 56 | 56[4] | 58 | ||||||||||||||
| "Proud Mary"c | – | – | – | Glee: The Music, Volume 2 | |||||||||||||
| "Lean on Me"c | 50 | – | – | ||||||||||||||
| "Imagine"c | 67 | – | 49 | ||||||||||||||
| "Hair" / "Crazy in Love"c | – | – | – | ||||||||||||||
| "Jump"c | 104 | – | – | ||||||||||||||
| "Smile"c | 102 | – | – | ||||||||||||||
| "You Can't Always Get What You Want"c | – | – | – | ||||||||||||||
| "My Life Would Suck Without You"c | 51[5] | – | – | ||||||||||||||
| "Last Christmas"c | 63 | – | – | Last Christmas - Single | |||||||||||||
| "—" denotes did not chart, or was not released. | |||||||||||||||||
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