Ashley Everett
Ashley Everett was born in Chico, California, United States on April 19th, 1989 and is the Dancer. At the age of 35, Ashley Everett biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Ashley Christine Everett (born April 19, 1989) is an American dancer and actress.
She is best known for her role as Beyoncé's lead backup dancer and dance captain, and she has worked with such artists as Usher, Jennifer Lopez, Ne-Yo, Tina Turner, Ciara, Sean Paul, and Anitta.
She appears in high-profile music videos, television commercials, and concert tours. Everett's career began at age 16 when she met Beyoncé's choreographer Frank Gatson, Jr. while performing at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 2007.
Everett got the opportunity to audition for Beyoncé later this year.
She dropped out of Juilliard School to attend The Beyoncé Experience Tour in 2005, and she became the dance captain in 2009.
Everett has appeared on every major concert tour, several TV commercials, and has appeared in over 20 music videos with the singer.
She continued to perform with other musicians, and she extended her career into acting in the third season of the VH1 series Hit the Floor, which premiered in 2015. Everett was one of two featured dancers on "Single Ladies" in 2008, amassed over 685 million YouTube views and became internationally recognized for its dancing and choreography.
The 2013 Super Bowl XLVII halftime show, the 2016 Super Bowl 50 halftime show, and Coachella 2018.
Everett, who is curly, red afro, has amassed a large fan base among Beyoncé's followers.
She began training as a child in contemporary ballet dancer and has since explored many genres, including tap, ballroom, jazz, and hip hop.
Early life
Everett was born and raised in Chico, California. She is a mixed race with her mother being African American and her father being White. Everett has said that growing up in Chico was a challenge for her as "you don't fit in with White people because you're too dark and you don't fit in with the Black people because you're too light."
Dance career
Everett began dancing at the age of three years, originating in ballet, but also training in tap and jazz. At the age of sixteen, Everett moved to New York City to train at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. During a training session here, Everett met Beyoncé's choreographer at the time, Frank Gatson, Jr. Around two months later, Everett attended an open audition for Beyoncé. Gatson remembered Everett and ultimately ended up landing her a job with Beyoncé.
At seventeen Everett started working with Beyoncé by dancing in music videos. Beyoncé was working on a video anthology album for B'Day (2006), and was filming multiple videos. Everett danced in "Green Light" and "Get Me Bodied". Following this, Everett began her first worldwide concert tour with The Beyoncé Experience (2007). Everett performed as a backup dancer for 96 shows. Prior to The Beyoncé Experience, Everett was accepted and enrolled into the Juilliard School, but ultimately decided against going, due to touring with Beyoncé and wanting to pursue her dance career this way.
In 2008, Everett started by performing with one of her idols, Tina Turner, at the 2008 50th Annual Grammy Awards with Beyoncé. She featured in the video for "Love in This Club" by Usher and began a working relationship with him. In October of the same year, the video for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" was released, which featured a J-Setting choreography and contained only Beyoncé, Everett and dancer Ebony Williams. It has since gone viral, amassing over 580 million views and has been recreated thousands of times. It also won the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year. Everett featured in videos for both "Ego" and "Sweet Dreams" from I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), and begun her second worldwide tour with Beyoncé, on the I Am... World Tour (2009–10). Here, Everett performed as the female Dance Captain for the entire tour. In 2010, Everett begun a working relationship with Ne-Yo and featured in three of his music videos from his album Libra Scale (2010); "One in a Million", "Champagne Life" and "Beautiful Monster". In 2011, Everett featured in three videos from Beyoncé's 4 (2011).
In 2012, Ashley was also one of the dancers on Glee in season 4, episode 16 during Naya Rivera's performance of Cold Hearted Snake.
On February 3, 2013, Everett served as a lead backup dancer to the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show with Beyoncé. The performance was watched by 110.8 million Americans. Following the performance, Beyoncé announced The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour (2013–14), in which Everett would act as head Dance Captain for 132 shows. In the buildup to the tour, Everett featured in Life Is But a Dream, and television commercials airing worldwide for H&M and in the United Kingdom for O2. Everett appeared in six videos from Beyoncé's self-titled visual album, including a lead acting role in "Heaven". Two months after The Mrs. Carter Show concluded, Everett was announced as the lead Dance Captain for Jay-Z and Beyoncé's all stadium On the Run Tour (2014). Everett performed as a backup dancer for the majority of Usher's The UR Experience Tour (2014–15), however missed some shows due to filming Hit the Floor. In February 2016, Everett joined Beyoncé at the Super Bowl for a second time during the Super Bowl 50 halftime show, with Beyoncé and Bruno Mars acting as special guests for Coldplay's headlining performance. The performance was watched by 115.5 million people in America. Following the performance, The Formation World Tour was announced, a 49 date all stadium tour with Everett again serving as dance captain for Beyoncé.
Everett has also danced and worked with Robin Thicke, Ciara, La Toya Jackson and Jennifer Lopez.