Blake McGrath (Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Blake James McGrath (born November 21, 1983) is a Canadian professional dancer, pop singer and choreographer, best known for being on the first season of So You Think You Can Dance in 2005, and MTV reality dance show, DanceLife.

Early career

Blake James McGrath was born in Mississauga Ontario

His early television appearances include: Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story (1997) playing Stuart Sanger, and the TV show recreation of Goosebumps book "Stay Out of the Basement". He played the brother Casey.

In 2003, McGrath was chosen to perform on Michael Jackson's thirtieth anniversary special. In 2006, he performed alongside Paulina Rubio at the 2004 Latin Grammy Awards. Also in 2006 he has an appearance in the documentary Freestyle (with Brian Friedman). He has appeared in Gap campaigns (with Sarah Jessica Parker), and in advertisements for iPod, Old Navy (which he also choreographed), and Hummer.

He has danced with stars such as Madonna, Britney Spears, Janet Jackson, Adam Lambert, Ashanti, Destiny's Child, P!nk, Craig David, Jewel.

In addition to his appearances on television shows, McGrath has also appeared in the films Butterbox Babies, Life With Mikey, Chicago, and Rent. He was also featured as a dancer in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody in the episode Commercial Breaks. He was a waiter.

He is co-owner of Coastal Dance Rage Convention, which tours major cities throughout Canada. He also appeared on the magazine cover of Hotshoes and appeared in Dance Spirit Magazine December 2006 issue.

Dancing career

In 2005, McGrath participated as a contestant on So You Think You Can Dance. He appeared in the 2007 reality TV show DanceLife produced by Jennifer Lopez.

Choreography in So You Think You Can Dance Canada series (2008-2010)

He is the lead choreographer for the audition cities and alternating third judge on So You Think You Can Dance Canada. He has had contributions for all three seasons todate of the Canadian series as follows:

Season	Week	Dancers	Style	Music
Season 1 (Canada)	Week 3	Arassay Reyes Nico Archambault	Contemporary	"Let Me Leave""?Marc Broussard
	Week 4	Kaitlyn Fitzgerald Izaak Smith	Jazz Funk	"Breakin' Dishes""?Rihanna
	Week 5	Top 12	Contemporary	"I Surrender""?Celine Dion
	Week 7	Lisa Auguste Nico Archambault	Jazz Funk	"When I Grow Up""?The Pussycat Dolls
	Week 8	Lisa Auguste Miles Faber	Contemporary	"The Face""?RyanDan
Season 2 (Canada)	Week 2	Amy Gardner Vincent Desjardins	Contemporary	"When You Say My Name""?Mario Spinetti
	Week 3	Kim Gingras Emanuel Sandhu	Jazz Funk	"Love Sex Magic""?Ciara feat Justin Timberlake
	Week 4	Top 14	Jazz Funk	"LoveGame""?Lady Gaga
	Week 5	Jayme Rae Dailey Daniel Dory	Contemporary	"It Must Have Been Love""?Kari Kimmel
	Week 8	Jayme Rae Dailey Emanuel Sandhu	Jazz Funk	"I Gotta Feeling""?The Black Eyed Peas
Season 3 (Canada)	Week 2	Kloé Schultz Jonathan Arsenault	Jazz	"California Gurls""?Katy Perry feat Snoop Dogg
	Week 4	Nathalie Heath Mackenzie Green	Contemporary	"After Afterall""?William Fitzsimmons
	Week 5	Nathalie Heath Jonathan Arsenault	Jazz	"Teenage Dream""?Katy Perry
	Week 7	Janick Arseneau Jeff Mortensen	Jazz Funk	"Come On Girl""?Taio Cruz feat Luciana Caporoso

Musical career

Blake started pursuin a music career and released his first single " The Night (Only Place To Go)" on April 27 of 2010 on MuchMusic. He presented an award with Girlicious at the 2010 MuchMusic Video Awards on June 20, 2010. His follow up single was Relax on August 3, 2010 to Canadian iTunes. On November 2, 2010, he released his first studio album Time to Move. It peaked at 39 on the Canadian Album charts. It was later released March 14, 2011 but failed to chart.

He is set to release his second studio album entitled Love Revolution in the Spring of 2013.

Personal life

As of 2006, McGrath lives in Toronto, Ontario. He attended Cawthra Park Secondary School, School of the Arts and Applewood Heights Secondary School in Mississauga as well as St. Jean de Brebeuf Catholic Secondary School in Hamilton, ON.

In 2009, he openly expressed that he's bisexual.

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Album details	Peak
		CAN	US
2010	Time to Move Release Date: November 2, 2010 Label: Interscope Format: CD, digital download	39	-
2013	Love Revolution Release Date: Spring 2013 Label: Interscope Format: CD, digital download

Tours

Stage Fright Tour (2011)

• First tour for Blake McGrath's debut studio album "Time To Move"

Filmography

• 1993: Life with Mikey as an acrobat
• 1995: Butterbox Babies as Simon (age 7/8)
• 1995: Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story as Stuart Sanger (TV movie)
• 1996: Goosebumps as Casey Brewer (in 2 episodes in TV series)
• 2002: Chicago as a male dancer
• 2004: Britney Spears Live from Miami as a dancer (TV movie)
• 2005: Rent as dancer (uncredited)
• 2007: Dancelife as himself

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