Trevor Jackson is an old 17. With a grey button-down shirt adored with yellow bumblebees fitted to his slender six-foot frame, he introduces himself with a firm handshake. He has a baby face but the poise of a man who has lived a little, because he has. In 2005, unlike other eight year olds, Jackson was in New York City playing a young Simba in the Broadway musical The Lion King. He then went on to acting roles in Cold Case, Criminal Minds and the 2012 Disney movie Let it Shine. Last year, the triple threat (he sings, dances and acts) dropped his EP New Thang and is now featured on label mate Diggy Simmons’ new single “My Girl.”
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