Heavy D in 2010, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Dwight Arrington Myers
Date of Birth: May 24, 1967
Place of Birth: Mandeville, Jamaica
Date of Death: November 8, 2011
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Ethnicity: African-Jamaican
Heavy D was an American rapper, record producer, singer, and actor. He was the leader of Heavy D & the Boyz, a hip hop group. He was born in Mandeville, Jamaica, and moved to Mount Vernon, New York, U.S., with his family, in the early 1970s.
He had a daughter with chef and television personality Antonia Lofaso.
Source: Article about Heavy D’s family –
