About
Charles Duncan Green V (born May 10, 1999), better known professionally as CG5, is an American singer-songwriter, music producer, and YouTuber. He is well known for making nerdcore hip-hop songs about various topics relating to video games and internet culture. He is also the director of the horror series and film hybrid Project U Move.
Charles Duncan Green V was born on May 10, 1999, in Phoenix, Arizona. Green has three siblings and is the fifth generation of his name in the family. Green started making music when he was five years old, using software on his father’s computer. Green and his family moved to Arizona when he was 12 years old, transferring throughout multiple high schools until he graduated from Highland High School in Gilbert, Arizona. Green was a member of a church choir, and took a radio/audio production class while in high school. Green additionally worked as a front counter at Chick-fil-A. He later pursued music full time after graduating high school.
Green started posting on YouTube under his name in mid 2012, releasing his first original song, “What Is A Dream”. Green continued releasing original and cover songs on SoundCloud…
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