Tariq Crabbe

Tariq Crabbe is an American artist born in Brooklyn, New York. Since childhood, Tariq has always had a passion for performing arts. As a child, he would recreate music videos in his living room with dreams of being on television one day. While growing up in New Jersey, he attended church in Brooklyn where he was introduced to singing. At the age of 16, Tariq and his closest friends debuted their newly formed choir The Voices of Promise to the public under record label IMOK Gospel Music recording their first live studio album. Around that same time, Tariq joined the poetry club in his high school and began to experiment with creative writing, poetry, and rapping. While singing tenor, Tariq and the Voices of Promise recorded two more albums over the next few years and has performed in countless concerts across the country. In high school, Tariq had only taken one theater class for six months his senior year, but he was sure that it was his favorite class of his high school career. After graduating from high school in 2008, he later achieved his Associate's Degree in 2012. He later began to pursue a Bachelor's Degree with a focus in criminal justice at New Jersey City University, but later dropped out due to financial struggles. At this time, he experimented with acting for the first time on camera with his cousin rapper/entrepreneur Taz Tikoon in her music video "Decisions." In 2016, he decided to finish his academia eventually graduating in 2018 from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. In his last semester before graduating, Tariq had written a monologue for class that his professor loved so much, she wanted to use it as a scene for a play she was creating in the spring. The monologue was performed at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater in New York City in front of a live audience. While the scene was acted out on stage by another student, writer/film-maker Jennifer Baumgardner loved the scene and later connected with Tariq to publish it in a book she was working on. In March 2019, the book Now That We're Men by Katie Cappiello was published featuring Tariq's monologue. Most recently Tariq was casted as Homeless Larry for the series "In A NY Minute (2020)."