Editing CeeLo Green (section)

==Early life==
Green was born on May 30, 1975, in Atlanta, Georgia.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Cee-Lo Green: Would Be Killer|url=https://www.ciantraynor.com/cee-lo-green-would-be-killer|access-date=2021-09-06|website=Cian Traynor|language=en-IE}}</ref> Both of his parents were firefighters,<ref name=nytimes040608 /> and he started his music career in church. His father died when Green was two years old.<ref name=nytimes040608>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/arts/music/06chan.html?pagewanted=all|title=First Came Crazy, Now Comes Odd|first= Jeff|last= Chang|work=The New York Times|date=April 6, 2008|access-date=October 21, 2013}}</ref> His mother was paralyzed in a car crash when Green was 16 and died in 1993 when Green was 18.<ref name=nytimes040608 /><ref name=":0" />

At the time of his mother's death, Green's career with [[Goodie Mob]] had just taken off.<ref name="Rolling Stone">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/gnarlsbarkley/articles/story/11123198/gnarls_barkley_the_summers_weirdest_breakthrough |last=Ringen |first=Jonathan |title=The Acid Nerd Gangsters |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=August 9, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229191948/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/gnarlsbarkley/articles/story/11123198/gnarls_barkley_the_summers_weirdest_breakthrough |archive-date=December 29, 2008 |access-date=July 29, 2022}}</ref> He subsequently struggled with suicidal thoughts, which he later wrote about in various songs throughout his career, including Goodie Mob's "Free"<ref name=nytimes040608/> and [[Gnarls Barkley]]'s "Just a Thought".<ref name="Rolling Stone"/> He would specifically address the deaths of his parents in "She Knows" and "A Little Better", from Gnarls Barkley's ''[[The Odd Couple (album)|The Odd Couple]]'' (2008),<ref name=nytimes040608/> and "Guess Who", from Goodie Mob's ''[[Soul Food (Goodie Mob album)|Soul Food]]'' (1995).{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} In an excerpt of ''CeeLo Distilled'', a documentary produced by [[Absolut]] and ''[[the Fader]]'', Green explained that his mother's death led him toward "crossing that threshold over into a career".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSn7LeJ0-Jo Cee Lo Distilled Part 1], YouTube Mini Documentary released June 24, 2011.</ref>