Trey Songz

CTL-E-5734 · Person · musician · 1984–present

STRONG EVIDENCE evidence grade — master store (canonical CSV)

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-03579 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-1437 + build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5734. Master record source: CTL intake 2026-10-17 — Soul Train missing-winner seeding from Phase C recovery notes; wins confirmed against the fetched per-year winners lists.

Trey Songz, born Tremaine Aldon Neverson on 28 November 1984 in Petersburg, Virginia, is an American R&B singer raised in a military family. Introduced to producer Troy Taylor through his stepfather, he signed with Atlantic Records in 2003. His debut I Gotta Make It (2005) and Trey Day (2007) built to Ready (2009), after which Passion, Pain & Pleasure (2010), Chapter V (2012), Trigga (2014), Tremaine (2017) and Back Home (2020) followed on Atlantic and his Songbook imprint. Chapter V debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, his first No. 1 album; "Say Aah" reached No. 9 on the Hot 100, and "Heart Attack" was nominated for Best R&B Song at the 2013 Grammy Awards, one of three Grammy nominations in the sources consulted, with no wins. He performed on The Millennium Tour in 2025.

The record

• Also known as: Tremaine Aldon Neverson, Trigga, Trigga Trey
• Role(s): recording artist

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 7; first packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Trey Songz entity in the live graph at 3,443 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5734 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 207 (R&B Singers list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American R&B figure. Vital status: LIVING — performed on The Millennium Tour in spring 2025. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Chapter V debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (2012), his first No. 1 album; three Grammy nominations, no wins — Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16. Career sales are reported as "over 7 million albums worldwide" and "over 25 million records" in different sources — different units, shown separately and never merged. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and label/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5734-trey-songz.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject; the three catalog string-hits for "Ne-Yo" resolve to Nina Simone and John Coltrane rows, not Ne-Yo billings); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )

Relationships

• Soul Train Music Awards 2010 — honored by
  STRONG EVIDENCE
• Soul Train Music Awards 2014 — honored by
  STRONG EVIDENCE

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Trey Songz" — born Tremaine Aldon Neverson, 28 November 1984, Petersburg, Virginia; Atlantic/Songbook; Chapter V No. 1; "Say Aah" No. 9 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trey_Songz (build store)
• Hip-Hop Database biography — album sequence, chart peaks, 2013 Grammy nomination — https://hiphopdatabase.fandom.com/wiki/Trey_Songz_(singer) (build store)
• Bandsintown event record — Millennium Tour, Toyota Center Houston, 30 March 2025 (vital-status evidence) — https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1033535319-trey-songz-at-toyota-center (primary source · build store)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Soul_Train_Music_Awards (verification source · master store)

Evidence note (master store)

Won Best Male R&B/Soul Artist at the Soul Train Music Awards 2010; Won Best R&B/Soul Male Artist at the Soul Train Music Awards 2014 (the 2010 win was a tie with Usher) — per the published Soul Train Music Awards winners lists (per-year lists fetched in full during recovery Phase C, 2026-10-17, and re-fetched at intake, 2026-10-17)

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