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Rapper T-Pain, whose 2007 album “Epiphany” reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, is performing Feb. 15 at Carthage College.

Tickets for the general public are $18 and go on sale Monday (Jan. 14).

His debut album, “Rappa Ternt Sanga,” was released in 2005. He has earned two Grammy Awards, for his work with Kanye West (2008’s “Good Life,” which won Best Rap Song) and Jamie Foxx (2010’s “Blame It,” which won Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group).

T-Pain is also the founder of the record label imprint Nappy Boy Entertainment, established in 2005. Throughout his career as a singer, T-Pain is best known for using and popularizing the use of the Auto-Tune pitch correction effect, used with extreme parameter settings to create distinctive vocal sounds.

From 2006 to 2010, T-Pain was featured on more than 50 chart topping singles, with his most successful feature on Flo Rida’s debut single “Low.”

He was born Faheem Rashad Najm on Sept. 30, 1985, in Tallahassee, Fla., which inspired his stage name, which is short for “Tallahassee Pain” and was chosen, he said, because of the hardships he experienced while living there.