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Born | Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
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Jimmie Wilson is an American singer and musical theatre actor. He represented San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, with the song "Spirit of the Night" in a duet with Sammarinese singer Valentina Monetta but failed to qualify to the final.
He studied acting in Hollywood, and then acted in the musical Sisterella, produced by Michael Jackson. He later moved to Germany to play Barack Obama in the musical Hope! – Das Obama Musical. In 2012 he took part in the third series of the Polish version of Must Be the Music. He was eliminated in the semi-finals.