Charlie Puth is an American singer-songwriter and record producer, best known for his 2015 song “See You Again”. Let’s see some amazing facts and trivia about him!
1.His full name is Charles Otto “Charlie” Puth Jr.
2. He was born December 2, 1991.
3. Charlie Puth was born December 2, 1991, in Rumson, New Jersey, the son of Debra, a music teacher, who also wrote commercials for HBO, and Charles Puth, a builder and real estate agent.
4. His father is Catholic and his mother is Jewish.
5. He has two younger siblings, twins Stephen and Mikaela.
6. As a two-year-old, Puth’s right eyebrow was permanently scarred in a nearly fatal dog-bite incident.
7. Charlie Puth has perfect pitch, a rare auditory phenomenon that enables him to identify or recreate music, without a reference note.
8. His mother introduced him to classical music and began teaching him the piano at age 4.
9. He started studying jazz at age 10[14] and participated in a summer youth jazz ensemble at Count Basie Theatre’s Cool School in Red Bank, New Jersey at 12.
10. He was hired by The Count Basie Theatre to play in a Charlie Brown production.
11. In grade six, he went door to door selling a Christmas album called Have a Merry Charlie Christmas that he had recorded and produced, making $600 in sales.
12. He attended the Holy Cross School, Rumson, and Forrestdale Middle School, before graduating from the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School in 2010.
13. During his seventh grade to senior years, he attended Manhattan School of Music Pre-College as a jazz piano major and a classical studies minor.
14. Charlie Puth graduated in 2013 from the Berklee College of Music, where he majored in music production and engineering.
15. In September 2009, he started his own YouTube channel, entitled Charlies Vlogs, posting comedy videos and acoustic covers.
16. In 2010, Puth released the music video of his first song, “These Are My Sexy Shades”.
17. On December 10, he released his debut extended play, The Otto Tunes, an independent release.
18. In 2011, he won an online video competition sponsored by Perez Hilton, Can You Sing?, with a version of Adele’s “Someone like You” which he performed with Emily Luther.
19. In the same year Ellen DeGeneres announced that she had signed Puth and Luther to her label, eleveneleven, after seeing their performance of Adele’s “Someone like You”.
20. On October 23, 2013, he released his second independent extended play, Ego, to streaming online.
21. Charlie Puth was credited with the production and writing of songs and jingles for fellow YouTube personalities. He wrote the theme song for Shane Dawson’s Shane and Friends podcast and skits, the intro jingle for the videos of the Vlogger family the Shaytards, the original theme song for Charles Trippy’s vlog Internet Killed Television, and a song for the tour and movie of YouTube group Our 2nd Life, as well as several singles for Our 2nd Life member Ricky Dillon. In 2014 he released the promotional single “L.U.V.”
22. The music video was directed by Andrew Vallentine In the same year, he co-wrote the song “Celebrate” on Pitbull’s eighth studio album Globalization
23.In February 2015, Puth released his debut single “Marvin Gaye”, which features guest vocals from Meghan Trainor. The single has been certified 2× Platinum in Australia, topped the charts in New Zealand, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, and peaked at number 21 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
24. Charlie Puth wrote, co-produced, and was featured on a song with Wiz Khalifa, “See You Again”, a tribute to the late Paul Walker, included in the Furious 7 soundtrack. While Khalifa wrote the rap lyrics, the rest of the song has been credited to Puth.
25. The song peaked at number one on the Hot 100 chart for 12 non-consecutive weeks.
26. “See You Again” was nominated for three Grammy Awards: Song of the Year, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Song Written for Visual Media. It was also shortlisted for the Song of the Year for the BBC Music Awards and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards.
27. He produced the song “Slow Motion” for Trey Songz and has arranged sessions with Jason Derulo and Lil Wayne.
28. Charlie Puth starred as Meghan Trainor’s love interest in the music video of “Dear Future Husband”. In the synopsis, she meets Puth on the online dating service and he comes to Trainor’s home with a carryout pizza, which succeeds in impressing Trainor. The video ends with Trainor smiling and inviting Puth into her home.
29. Pre-orders for Puth’s debut studio album Nine Track Mind began on August 20, 2015, along with the second single “One Call Away”. The song peaked at number 12 in the United States, 26 in the United Kingdom and 4 in Australia.[
30. As of February 2016, the song has sold 513,700 copies domestically
31. His debut album, Nine Track Mind, was released on January 29, 2016.
32. The album debuted at number three in the United Kingdom. The album itself peaked at number 6 on the Billboard 200, receiving a score of 37 out of 100 on Metacritic, becoming the 15th worst reviewed album on the site. Puth embarked his debut live concert, Nine Track Mind Tour, in March 2016.
33. In 2016, Puth was the first musician to sign a deal with Deutsch Music.
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