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Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967 in Dallas, Texas), best known as Vanilla Ice, is a Grammy Award nominated, American Music Award winning United States|American rapper and singer known for the 1990 smash hit "Ice Ice Baby."

He found major mainstream success, but his success lasted only about two years, and his rapid fall from popularity remains one of the most notorious in American music of recent decades. Though Van Winkle has continued making music, he has yet to recapture anything approaching the level of mainstream success which he once enjoyed in the early 1990s.

Career
Early life
Van Winkle was born at Baylor Hospital to Camilla Beth Van Winkle (nÃ©e Dickerson), a secretary and part-time private music teacher, and Dallas-born William Basil Van Winkle<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.wargs.com/other/vanwinkle.html | title = Ancestry of Robert Matthew Van Winkle | author = William Addams Reitwiesner | accessmonthday = March 20 | accessyear = 2007</ref>, who left the family when Rob was four years old.

Van Winkle attended R. L. Turner High School in Carrollton, Texas|Carrollton, a suburb of Dallas. He became interested in breakdancing. Practicing on cardboard in his early teen years, he earned the nickname "Vanilla Ice."<ref name="Salon">{{cite journal |url=http://dir.salon.com/story/e... read all