Logan Henderson

Logan Philip Henderson
 ^[1] (born September 14, 1989)^[2] is an American actor, dancer, rapper and singer. He is best known for his starring role as Logan Mitchell on the Nickelodeon series, Big Time Rush, as well as being a member of the Big Time Rush band itself. He also appeared in Season 2, episode 12 of Friday Night Lights, titled "Who Do You Think You Are". It has been said that Logan loves llamas. As Kendall Schmidt released on twitter about Logan, "He says because he was near death when he was in the Ozark mountains and a Llama saved his love. He is eternally grateful!"

Life and career

Henderson was born in North Richland Hills, Texas (near Dallas),^[3][4] and had a small role as a bully on the television program Friday Night Lights^[5] before moving to California at the age of 18 to pursue his acting career.^[3] Big Time Rush is his breakthrough role.^[2][3][6] Big Time Rush's first album was released October 11, 2010, via Sony and Columbia Records.

Big Time Rush

In 2007, the Nickelodeon was casting and looking for people to be in a new band to be in a new sitcom called Big Time Rush. Henderson and James Maslow got the roles as Logan Mitchell and James Diamond after sending in audition tapes, Carlos Pena, Jr. got his role as Carlos Garcia soon after in the same way, and finally Kendall Schmidt got the role of Kendall Knight 2 years after the others. The producer thought that the boys were perfect for the part. The pilot episode kicked off as most watched on Nickelodeon (TV channel) history.^[4]
His character's name is Logan Mitchell, the genius of the band, is good at getting them out of trouble.
The boys have recorded many songs including, "The City Is Ours", "Halfway There", "Famous", "Til I Forget About You" (first single off of their debut album, B.T.R., and the theme song, "Big Time Rush". Additional songs will be released throughout the show's seasons. They and Nickelodeon are planning on releasing an album of the songs from the first season of the show and some new ones. The album was released on October 11, 2010. One week later their self-titled album, Big Time Rush, premiered at #3 on The Billboard, and at #1 on the iTunes digital albums list.