Up and Coming YouTube Singers
Up and Coming YouTube Singers
By Cynthia Duke
Many of you have probably already heard of these following YouTube artist but for those of you who have not, here is an in-depth breakdown of four of them.
Christina Grimmie: Christian identified, Grimmie is a Jersey girl who grew up in Marlton, NJ. In 2009 at the age of fifteen, she began posting cover videos of herself singing on YouTube. Her debut cover video posting was Hannah Montana’s, “Don’t Wanna Be Torn”.
Born March 12, 1994, Grimmie is of a Romanian and Italian decent which attributes to her look. In her early years her father noticed her talent for singing at the tender age of six.
Later, she took piano lessons at ten years old but says despite this, she plays by ear. She also plays guitar and flute. Her musical influences include growing up listening to contemporary Christian artist, Stacie Orrico, her main vocal influence - Christina Aguilera, admiration for Beyoncé, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Heavy Metal, Dub Step and DJ Music, and she listened to Metallica, Pantera, Iron Maiden, and Tool.
YouTube wise she is the fourth most subscribed to musician, at least as of April 2013 and is at close to 3 million subscribers. Best known for her cover with fellow YouTube artist, Sam Tsui, which we will discuss later on, Grimmie’s growing popularity garnered her notice from Selena Gomez’s stepfather the result being him becoming her manager in 2010.
June of 2011 saw the release of her EP, “Find Me”. A whirlwind of appearances on Ellen, The Disney Channel, AMAs 2011 and so much more.
August 2013 then ushers in her full length debut album, “With Love”.
To top that off Grimmie auditions for the sixth season of the voice and made it as a third place finalist!
Eventually signing to major label, Island Records, Grimmie is currently working on her second full length, and first major label debut album projected to release in 2015.
To find out more about Christina Grimmie visit her profiles on
Website
Facebook
Twitter
instagram
YouTube
iTunes
Madilyn Bailey: Madilyn is an acoustic pop singer/songwriter who gained notoriety on YouTube. She was born September 2, 1992 in a small Wisconsin town and has two sisters and two brothers. That makes her a cheesehead. Seriously. She started writing songs at the early age of 7 and used songwriting to express the joys and sorrows she saw people go through in life around her.
Madilyn describes herself before fame as a down to earth and nerdy tomboy, who only started to wear make-up and dresses for videos to “look the part”. She loves video games, board games and chemistry and a huge part of her life was the Science Olympiad, a national competition for grades K-12. She says if she wasn’t in music she probably would have been a forensic scientist or in a lab somewhere.
Maddy, as her friends call her, started playing piano at 9 years old to prep for drumming. She later took up acoustic guitar when she went to a summer music festival in Minnesota and picked up her father’s guitar. Coming home from the festival she told her mother she wrote a song for her on the guitar and her mother told Maddy that she didn’t play guitar. Apparently she had learned enough in a few days of the camping music festival to start writing with it.
Also before fame, Madilyn worked as a certified nursing assistant in a nursing home. She took it gradual with her switching to a music career and leaving her job behind.
Madilyn up loaded her first video to YouTube in Fall of 2009. The motivation behind it and rewriting hip hop songs into pop covers was that her brother was leaving for Iraq and his favorite artist was Eminem. So, she took an Eminem song, switched up the melody, cleaned up the lyrics and posted it and it went viral.
By November 2009 she had launched her own YouTube channel which has almost 2 million subscribers as of this writing and by 2012 was signed to an independent label called, Keep Your Soul Records.
2012 and 2013 she was a finalist in the Guitar Center Singer/Songwriter Competition, selected by producer John Shanks both times.
Six albums, “The Covers Volumes 1-6” and an EP, “Bad Habit” later, Madilyn is married to James Bernard (2014) and living between L.A. and Wisconsin with songwriting and life development at home and music videos, recording and interviews in L.A.
For more information on Madilyn Bailey, visit her profiles on
Facebook
Twitter
instagram
YouTube
Megan Nicole: Megan Nicole (Flores) was born September 1, 1993 in Houston, Texas and grew up in Katy, Texas. She is a singer/songwriter and musician.
Megan first became interested in music around the age of 10 when her father bought her a karaoke machine. She says on her website that music has always been a part of her life and that she took piano for many years when she was younger and picked up guitar in high school. She was also in church band in high school and before that, in middle school, she was in the church choir.
Her first YouTube upload was in 2009 with a cover of, “Use Somebody” by Kings of Leon. Megan went on to do many covers and collaborations with many other YouTubers such as Lindsey Stirling, Tyler Ward and Alyssa Bernal.
July 15 of 2011 saw the release of her first original song, “B-e-a-utiful” which received one million hits in two days. Twenty-seven million by November of 2013.
By 2012 Megan was signed to the now defunct, Bad Boy Records.
Released October 14, 2014, was her first five song EP titled, “Escape”.
The first single off of it was the 80s inspired “Electrified” which came out August of 2014.
Megan’s next single off the EP was, “Fun” released November of 2014 for the YouTube Music Awards and was featured as a YouTube music Moment.
At this point, Megan has close to 3 million subscribers on YouTube.
For more information on Megan Nicole, visit her profile pages on
Website
Facebook
Twitter
instagram
YouTube
SamTsui: Born May 2, 1989, this puts Sam as the oldest YouTuber here. He grew up in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania and was active in high school musicals. His father is Chinese and is from Hong Kong. His mother is white and hails from Iowa. Sam has one brother and can speak some Cantonese.
Sam went to high school with Kurt Hugo Schneider who is his producer and accompanist and has collaborated with him since then. It was Kurt’s YouTube channel that Sam first appeared on with his covers.
The pair both attended Yale University where their musical collaborations flourished. Sam majored in classical Greek and was a member of Davenport College and the a cappella group, The Duke’s Men of Yale. Sam graduated magna cum laude in 2011.
Sam is known for his pop covers, original songs, medleys, mashups and collaborations with Kurt. He released his first covers album in February 2010 called simply, “The Covers”.
Sam, also teamed up with the afore mentioned, Christina Grimmie in December of that year to sing, “Just a Dream” and is the most viewed video on Kurt’s YouTube channel coming in at more than 80 million views.
A year before that Sam had his first TV debut on ABC World News where he sang, “I’ll Be There” by The Jackson 5. He went on to perform on The Bonnie Hunt Show, It’s on with Alexa Chung, The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
In February of 2011, Sam debuted his own personal YouTube channel and finally, in May of 2013 release his first full length album, “Make It Up”. After that he toured with Kurt among others.
For more information on Sam Tsui, visit his profile pages at
Website
Facebook
Twitter
instagram
YouTube
iTunes
- Read the full story at UnRatedMagazine.com
By Cynthia Duke
Many of you have probably already heard of these following YouTube artist but for those of you who have not, here is an in-depth breakdown of four of them.
Christina Grimmie: Christian identified, Grimmie is a Jersey girl who grew up in Marlton, NJ. In 2009 at the age of fifteen, she began posting cover videos of herself singing on YouTube. Her debut cover video posting was Hannah Montana’s, “Don’t Wanna Be Torn”.
Born March 12, 1994, Grimmie is of a Romanian and Italian decent which attributes to her look. In her early years her father noticed her talent for singing at the tender age of six.
Later, she took piano lessons at ten years old but says despite this, she plays by ear. She also plays guitar and flute. Her musical influences include growing up listening to contemporary Christian artist, Stacie Orrico, her main vocal influence - Christina Aguilera, admiration for Beyoncé, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Heavy Metal, Dub Step and DJ Music, and she listened to Metallica, Pantera, Iron Maiden, and Tool.
YouTube wise she is the fourth most subscribed to musician, at least as of April 2013 and is at close to 3 million subscribers. Best known for her cover with fellow YouTube artist, Sam Tsui, which we will discuss later on, Grimmie’s growing popularity garnered her notice from Selena Gomez’s stepfather the result being him becoming her manager in 2010.
June of 2011 saw the release of her EP, “Find Me”. A whirlwind of appearances on Ellen, The Disney Channel, AMAs 2011 and so much more.
August 2013 then ushers in her full length debut album, “With Love”.
To top that off Grimmie auditions for the sixth season of the voice and made it as a third place finalist!
Eventually signing to major label, Island Records, Grimmie is currently working on her second full length, and first major label debut album projected to release in 2015.
To find out more about Christina Grimmie visit her profiles on
Website
YouTube
iTunes
Madilyn Bailey: Madilyn is an acoustic pop singer/songwriter who gained notoriety on YouTube. She was born September 2, 1992 in a small Wisconsin town and has two sisters and two brothers. That makes her a cheesehead. Seriously. She started writing songs at the early age of 7 and used songwriting to express the joys and sorrows she saw people go through in life around her.
Madilyn describes herself before fame as a down to earth and nerdy tomboy, who only started to wear make-up and dresses for videos to “look the part”. She loves video games, board games and chemistry and a huge part of her life was the Science Olympiad, a national competition for grades K-12. She says if she wasn’t in music she probably would have been a forensic scientist or in a lab somewhere.
Maddy, as her friends call her, started playing piano at 9 years old to prep for drumming. She later took up acoustic guitar when she went to a summer music festival in Minnesota and picked up her father’s guitar. Coming home from the festival she told her mother she wrote a song for her on the guitar and her mother told Maddy that she didn’t play guitar. Apparently she had learned enough in a few days of the camping music festival to start writing with it.
Also before fame, Madilyn worked as a certified nursing assistant in a nursing home. She took it gradual with her switching to a music career and leaving her job behind.
Madilyn up loaded her first video to YouTube in Fall of 2009. The motivation behind it and rewriting hip hop songs into pop covers was that her brother was leaving for Iraq and his favorite artist was Eminem. So, she took an Eminem song, switched up the melody, cleaned up the lyrics and posted it and it went viral.
By November 2009 she had launched her own YouTube channel which has almost 2 million subscribers as of this writing and by 2012 was signed to an independent label called, Keep Your Soul Records.
2012 and 2013 she was a finalist in the Guitar Center Singer/Songwriter Competition, selected by producer John Shanks both times.
Six albums, “The Covers Volumes 1-6” and an EP, “Bad Habit” later, Madilyn is married to James Bernard (2014) and living between L.A. and Wisconsin with songwriting and life development at home and music videos, recording and interviews in L.A.
For more information on Madilyn Bailey, visit her profiles on
YouTube
Megan Nicole: Megan Nicole (Flores) was born September 1, 1993 in Houston, Texas and grew up in Katy, Texas. She is a singer/songwriter and musician.
Megan first became interested in music around the age of 10 when her father bought her a karaoke machine. She says on her website that music has always been a part of her life and that she took piano for many years when she was younger and picked up guitar in high school. She was also in church band in high school and before that, in middle school, she was in the church choir.
Her first YouTube upload was in 2009 with a cover of, “Use Somebody” by Kings of Leon. Megan went on to do many covers and collaborations with many other YouTubers such as Lindsey Stirling, Tyler Ward and Alyssa Bernal.
July 15 of 2011 saw the release of her first original song, “B-e-a-utiful” which received one million hits in two days. Twenty-seven million by November of 2013.
By 2012 Megan was signed to the now defunct, Bad Boy Records.
Released October 14, 2014, was her first five song EP titled, “Escape”.
The first single off of it was the 80s inspired “Electrified” which came out August of 2014.
Megan’s next single off the EP was, “Fun” released November of 2014 for the YouTube Music Awards and was featured as a YouTube music Moment.
At this point, Megan has close to 3 million subscribers on YouTube.
For more information on Megan Nicole, visit her profile pages on
Website
YouTube
SamTsui: Born May 2, 1989, this puts Sam as the oldest YouTuber here. He grew up in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania and was active in high school musicals. His father is Chinese and is from Hong Kong. His mother is white and hails from Iowa. Sam has one brother and can speak some Cantonese.
Sam went to high school with Kurt Hugo Schneider who is his producer and accompanist and has collaborated with him since then. It was Kurt’s YouTube channel that Sam first appeared on with his covers.
The pair both attended Yale University where their musical collaborations flourished. Sam majored in classical Greek and was a member of Davenport College and the a cappella group, The Duke’s Men of Yale. Sam graduated magna cum laude in 2011.
Sam is known for his pop covers, original songs, medleys, mashups and collaborations with Kurt. He released his first covers album in February 2010 called simply, “The Covers”.
Sam, also teamed up with the afore mentioned, Christina Grimmie in December of that year to sing, “Just a Dream” and is the most viewed video on Kurt’s YouTube channel coming in at more than 80 million views.
A year before that Sam had his first TV debut on ABC World News where he sang, “I’ll Be There” by The Jackson 5. He went on to perform on The Bonnie Hunt Show, It’s on with Alexa Chung, The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
In February of 2011, Sam debuted his own personal YouTube channel and finally, in May of 2013 release his first full length album, “Make It Up”. After that he toured with Kurt among others.
For more information on Sam Tsui, visit his profile pages at
Website
YouTube
iTunes
- Read the full story at UnRatedMagazine.com
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