David was born July 7th in Kansas City, Missouri, to Beverly Watts and Lucas Smith. His family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota soon after. He is an actor best known for the soap operas N.B.C's Passions (1999) and A.B.C's General Hospital (1963). He started his career at an early age being discovered at a talent competition in New York and began landing numerous modeling,commercials jobs and providing vocals for a short lived boy band named O.c.G immediately after. Soon television came calling and David stepped into his role on Passions (1999). Looming film roles upon him David decided to take a break from television and purse those roles. He soon returned for a short stint on C.B.S's Young and the Restless (1973) filling in for Shemar Moore, only to be courted by General Hospital (1963) where he then set up shop.Since his time on the soaps ended, David has hovered over a few prominent film roles and producing his own projects through his Split 3 Wayz production company.