Who Is Christopher Harvest?
Christopher Harvest is an American singer and producer who performed under the stage name Sixx-Nine, best known as the former husband of actress Vivica A. Fox. They married in December 1998 and divorced in 2002, and his name has survived since then almost entirely because of that marriage. He has given no major interview, released no verified record under his own name, and kept his private life private for more than twenty years.
That silence is why most of what you read about him online is thin and often wrong, repeated from one biography site to the next. This article checks the claims against the record, uses Fox’s own words from her 2018 memoir and her 2021 VladTV interview, and says plainly where the facts run out.
Quick Bio
| Full name | Christopher Harvest |
| Stage name | Sixx-Nine (also written Sixx Nine) |
| Known for | Singer and producer; former husband of Vivica A. Fox |
| Profession | Singer, producer (described as a singer-producer by CBS News in 1999) |
| Nationality | American |
| Former spouse | Vivica A. Fox, married December 1998, divorced June 2002 |
| Children with Vivica A. Fox | None |
| Age and birthday | Not publicly confirmed |
| Current whereabouts | Not publicly confirmed |
| Net worth | No verified figure exists |
Christopher Harvest Age and Birthday
There is no publicly confirmed birth date for Christopher Harvest, so his age cannot be stated as a fact. Some biography websites list December 17 as his birthday, but none gives a verified birth year, and the years that circulate come from bio sites with no source behind them. Until a reliable record appears, any age you see attached to his name is a guess.
Nothing reliable is known about his early life either: no dependable source records where he was born, who his parents were, or where he went to school. With no early life on record, biography sites invent one, or copy each other’s inventions. The contrast with his former wife is sharp: Vivica A. Fox was born on July 30, 1964, in South Bend, Indiana, and her path is fully documented, from dancing on Soul Train in the early 1980s to her film breakthrough in 1996. When they met she was 32. How old he was, nobody outside his own circle can say.
Christopher Harvest Music Career as Sixx-Nine
Harvest came to entertainment through music. In 1999, while he was still in the public eye, CBS News described him as a singer-producer, the most reliable description of his work, because it was written at the time. He performed under the stage name Sixx-Nine. A contemporary report said the name came from his height, though no other reliable source confirms that or his exact height.
The Lo-Key Question: What the Record Actually Shows
Almost every biography of Harvest says he was a member of an R and B group called Lo-Key, chasing a recording deal when he met Fox. That claim needs checking, because the best-documented group of that name tells a different story.
The group Lo-Key? formed in Kansas City and Minneapolis, signed to Perspective Records, and released two albums, Where Dey At? in 1992 and a follow-up, Back 2 Da Howse. Their single I Got a Thang 4 Ya! reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart. The group’s listed members, Andre Shepard, Darron Story, Tony Tolbert and Tyrone Yarbrough, do not include Christopher Harvest.
Either Harvest sang with a different, undocumented group that shared the name, or the Lo-Key claim is a mix-up biography sites have copied from each other for years. No verified album, single, chart position or award exists under his name, and no reliable source has listed his bandmates or his label. Some online reports link the failed deal to Death Row Records, but no reliable source has confirmed that link.
How Christopher Harvest Met Vivica A. Fox
Harvest met Vivica A. Fox at a nightclub in Beverly Hills in December 1996, a date Fox gives in her memoir. That same year she appeared in two hit films, Independence Day, as Jasmine Dubrow opposite Will Smith, and Set It Off, as Frankie Sutton; Independence Day went on to gross more than 800 million dollars worldwide. She was 32, newly famous, and, by her own later admission, in a hurry. He proposed in December 1997, about a year after they met, and they married a year after that. Fox has been frank since that the speed was the problem: she did not take the time to get to know him.
Christopher Harvest and Vivica A. Fox: The Wedding in December 1998
Christopher Harvest and Vivica A. Fox married in December 1998 at the Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, in a large, public ceremony with about 260 guests. Fox describes the day in her 2018 memoir, Every Day I’m Hustlin’: she arrived in a horse-drawn carriage decorated with flowers, white organza and small lights, wearing an ivory Escada gown with a veil and crown, her six bridesmaids in Escada too, and her entrance was delayed when a paparazzo fell out of a tree. The guest list matched the scale: Angela Bassett, Magic Johnson and Shaquille O’Neal, Holly Robinson Peete, Lela Rochon and Tisha Campbell-Martin, and Madame King, who had put Fox in her very first fashion show.
For the full story of the actress at the centre of this marriage, see the Wikipedia profile of Vivica A. Fox.
Two Careers Moving in Opposite Directions
The marriage began at the worst possible moment for a partnership built on two rising careers, because only one of them was rising. In 1997 Fox starred in the acclaimed Soul Food, which brought her an NAACP Image Award nomination. In 1998 she led the sitcom Getting Personal, in 2001 she led Two Can Play That Game, and a year after the marriage ended, Quentin Tarantino cast her as Vernita Green in Kill Bill. Harvest, meanwhile, had no comparable run of work to point to: his group had not landed the deal they needed, and no solo record, tour or acting role followed that the public record can verify. The gap between their two careers is the background to everything Fox later said: she was earning the money and carrying the household, while the career he had come to Hollywood for stayed out of reach.
Christopher Harvest and Vivica A. Fox: Marriage and Divorce
The marriage ended in divorce in June 2002, after about four years, though Fox has said the couple were only really together for about two and a half of them. She has given the fullest account of why it ended, in a 2021 VladTV interview and in her memoir.
She has said she married because of peer pressure: everyone around her was having what she called their Cinderella day, and she wanted one too. In her memoir she wrote that she went into a four-year union she had no business going into.
The money finished it. Fox said he did not chase other opportunities with the same drive she brought to her own career. Her words were plain: he did not pursue things with the same drive she had for her career, a woman does not like paying all the bills all the time, and her mother did not raise her to take care of a man. That, she said, was the deciding factor. You can read the full account in the Essence report on her marriage.
Harvest has never given his own public account of the divorce, so the story of the split is told from Fox’s side. Every reliable source agrees the couple did not have children together.
Christopher Harvest Net Worth
There is no verified figure for Christopher Harvest’s net worth, and this article will not give one. Figures circulate on biography websites, but none cites a source and they disagree with each other by millions of dollars. A net worth number for a private person with no verified income and no confirmed career after 2002 is not information, it is invention. Any number you see attached to his name should be ignored.
Where Is Christopher Harvest Now?
After the divorce, Christopher Harvest stepped out of public life and, more than twenty years later, has not stepped back in. There is no verified record of a new career, a new relationship, a remarriage or a home, and no social media account that can be confirmed as his. None of it happened in public, and a profile that claims otherwise is guessing.
The last widely circulated public sighting of him came on November 8, 2013, at the Soul Train Awards at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, where he and Fox were photographed together more than a decade after their divorce. Hosted by Anthony Anderson, the ceremony aired on BET and Centric on December 1, 2013. The photograph is a friendly one, with no sign of tension, and it has become the image most people now associate with him. There is a quiet symmetry to it: Fox began her career as a dancer on Soul Train in the early 1980s, and thirty years later she was back at the Soul Train Awards, her first husband beside her. It is the last public trace of Christopher Harvest: whatever ended between them, they could still stand together for a photograph.
What Is Not Confirmed About Christopher Harvest
His birth date and age are not publicly confirmed. His height is not reliably documented. Claims that he has children from other relationships are not backed by reliable evidence. A social media handle sometimes attached to his name has not been verified as his account. Some biography sites also call him a model, which goes beyond the contemporary reporting. And the Death Row Records link is an unconfirmed online report, not a verified fact. His public record covers a short stretch of the late 1990s and early 2000s; everything outside it is unconfirmed or unknown.
Vivica A. Fox After the Divorce
Fox’s career kept growing: Kill Bill in 2003, the Lifetime drama Missing, which she co-produced and starred in, winning an NAACP Image Award, and later Empire, in which she played Candace Mason from 2015 to 2020. She dated rapper 50 Cent briefly in 2003, and was later engaged to club promoter Omar Slimm White, an engagement that ended in 2011. She has not married again, and Harvest remains the only man she has ever married. Her frankness about why that marriage failed is one reason people are still searching for his name more than twenty years later.
For a similar story of a private first partner of a huge star, read our profile of Elizabeth Huberdeau, the first wife of John Cena. You can read more celebrity profiles in our Celebrity section.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Christopher Harvest?
Christopher Harvest is an American singer and producer who performed under the stage name Sixx-Nine, best known as the former husband of actress Vivica A. Fox, to whom he was married from December 1998 to June 2002. He has lived privately since the divorce, and his whereabouts are not publicly confirmed.
When did Christopher Harvest marry Vivica A. Fox?
They met in December 1996, became engaged in December 1997, and married in December 1998 at the Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. The marriage ended in divorce in June 2002.
What was Christopher Harvest’s music career?
He was a singer and producer who performed as Sixx-Nine; CBS News described him as a singer-producer in 1999. Several biography sites say he was a member of an R and B group called Lo-Key, but the documented group of that name, Lo-Key?, had different members and does not list him. No verified album, single, chart position or award exists under his name.
Was Christopher Harvest in Independence Day or Set It Off?
No. Those are Vivica A. Fox’s films — she played Jasmine Dubrow in Independence Day and Frankie Sutton in Set It Off, both in 1996. Harvest has no credited acting role in either film, or in any film; his work was in music.
Where is Christopher Harvest now?
His whereabouts and occupation are not publicly confirmed, and he has no verified social media account or confirmed remarriage. The last widely circulated public sighting of him was alongside Fox at the Soul Train Awards in Las Vegas on November 8, 2013.
Conclusion
Christopher Harvest’s story is short in the public record, but it is not empty. He was a young singer chasing a record deal in the hardest years of 1990s R and B, he married a rising film star at the exact moment her career took off and his stalled, and then he walked away from public life. The wedding was big and public, the marriage was short, and the divorce was explained with unusual honesty, at least on Fox’s side.
What came after was silence, filled online with guesses about his age, his money, his height and his family. None of those guesses is verified. What is certain is smaller: he was Sixx-Nine, he married Vivica A. Fox in December 1998, the marriage ended in 2002, and more than twenty years later he remains the only man she has ever married.
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