Iman Crosson Biography
Iman Crosson, best known as Alphacat, is an American actor, impressionist, and YouTube personality. His most notable work was when he impersonated the former U.S. president Barrack Obama and his starring role in the film “Along The Roadside”.
His earliest known works were as Alphacat on YouTube. He created the channel on the 14th of December 2005 as a 23-year-old. Three years later he created spoof videos, at the urging of his friends, of Barack Obama when he was just a presidential candidate.
Crosson’s video won Denny’s Restaurant’s nationwide contest for the best impressionist of Barack Obama. He moved to California and obtained an agent to help him cross over his talent to the mainstream, and was later invited to America’s Got Talent.
Alphacat specialized in President Barrack Obama’s impersonations and mixed them up with hip-hop songs. He was featured in a number of entertainment news television shows, blogs, and newspapers after President Obama’s inauguration in 2009.
After the inauguration, the actor mostly did voice-overs from the President’s point of view. He impersonated Obama in the YouTube series “Epic Rap Battle Series”.
In February 2014, YouTube content creators including Iman met with U.S. President Obama at the White House to discuss ways in which the government could connect with the content creators’ viewers, concerning awareness of and enrollment in health insurance policies and other issues.
Iman Crosson appeared alongside fellow YouTubers and Viners, Andrew Bachelor and DeStorm Power in Will.i.am’s music video for the song “It’s My Birthday” ft Cody Wise.
He played as the lead role in the independent film “Along the Roadside” along with Michael Madsen as the Supporting Actor. The film was released commercially on the 17th of March 2015. He also played as Barack Obama in the Bollywood comedy sequel “Tere Bin Laden: Dead or Alive” filmed in Mumbai, India.
Iman Crosson Age
Crosson was born on the 27th of March 1982 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. He is now 37 years old.
Iman Crosson Girlfriend
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Iman Crosson Height
Iman stands at a height of about 6 Feet and 2 Inches.
Iman Crosson Weight
He has a weigh of about 75-77 kg.
Iman Crosson Net Worth
The impressionist has accumulated a net worth of about 2 Million dollars over the years of his career.
Iman Crosson Single Ladies
On YouTube, Crosson specialized in mashing up his Obama impersonations with hip-hop songs, his spoofs of Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” and T.I.’s “Whatever I Like” being viewed 20 million times each.
Iman Crosson Along the Roadside
Along the Roadside is a 2015 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Zoran Lisinac. It stars Iman Crosson (Alphacat), Angelina Häntsch, Michael Madsen, Lazar Ristovski and Daniel Grozdich.
The film follows the story of two people from different parts of the world who after a chance encounter set out on a road trip across California, both for the reasons of their own – Varnie escaping his pregnant girlfriend and Nena searching for the concert of her favorite band.
The film explores themes of racism, social responsibility, “post-romanticism” and culture clash against the backdrop of vast California – from San Francisco to LA and inland across the desert.
Varnie, a self-proclaimed “sailor who has left one shore but hasn’t yet reached the other one” could most aptly be fitted into, what the academic Marco Abel refers to as “post romance cinema” in which the characters reject the idealized notion of lifelong monogamy.
Varnie (Alphacat) finds his antipode in Nena, a colorblind tourist from Germany who sees the world in all its shades of gray or as critic Aaron Shore, in his A-grade review of the movie, noted, “an interesting contrast to Varnie’s racial features as an African American.”
Along the Roadside has been named “the most unique film of the year” after its Mill Valley Film Festival premiere in October 2013. The use of the original music serves as a Greek chorus – addressing both the characters and the audience alike.
Cole Bonner supplied the original songs to be passed off as the songs of the elusive band Blonde Priest – nobody in the story has heard of – which poses a question, “what is Nena really after?”Along the Roadside has been on the festival circuit since 2013 and had its commercial release on March 17, 2015.
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Iman Crosson and Obama
When Iman Crosson was 23 years old, Crosson opened a YouTube account with a screen name Alphacat. In July 2008, at the urging of his fellow waiters Crosson created spoof videos of the then U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama.
During the summer of the 2008 U.S. Presidential election campaign, his 30-second video won Denny’s Restaurant’s nationwide contest for the best impressionist of the then-candidate Barack Obama. He said that he “went from unemployed to self-employed in literally a matter of a month.”
Alphacat moved from New York to California, obtained an agent specializing in helping talent cross over from online to the mainstream, and was invited to be on America’s Got Talent. On YouTube, Iman Crosson specialized in mashing up his Obama impersonations with hip-hop songs, his spoofs of Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” and T.I.’s “Whatever I Like” being viewed 20 million times each.
After Obama’s January 2009 inauguration, Alphacat was featured on several entertainment and news television shows, blogs and newspapers. Fox News’ Neil Cavuto called Crosson a “YouTube sensation”.
His post-inaugural work included voice-overs in Newsweek’s The District, a video series in which Crosson narrated Obama’s first months in Washington from the President’s point of view. On March 17, 2010, Iman Crosson impersonated Obama at the 66th Annual Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association Dinner.