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Forbes: Who is Charlie Puth?
Charlie Puth Has The Number One Song In The Country...
So Who Is He?
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The 23 year old pop singer got his start on YouTube, as so many do these days. He and fellow Berklee student Emily Luther got together to enter a contest to see who could create the best version of Adele’s hit “Someone Like You”. Though they’d never actually sung together before, the duo recorded their beautiful rendition in an amateur video that quickly went viral. After a visit to the Ellen DeGeneres Show, the host signed them to a development deal with her eleveneleven label. That may have been several years ago, but the waiting has paid off for Puth, whose star is now rapidly rising.
Only at the very beginning of his career, Puth has two official singles to his name: the already-massively successful “See You Again”, and “Marvin Gaye”, which is his first major label release. The latter was actually released before “See”, and features Meghan Trainor, who is still a newcomer in her own right. So far, “Gaye” hasn’t made much of an impact around the world (except in Australia, where the song has broken the top 40), but now that he has found success on another track, it is likely that his own single will find new life.
Next up for Puth is a summer tour with duet partner Trainor, who is still riding a wave of popularity thanks to the three top 40 hits off her recent number one album, including “All About That Bass” and “Lips Are Movin’”. The two will be criss-crossing the country on Trainor’s “MTrain” tour, which will help Puth gain new fans and grow his name. Having only launched his career (by debuting a first single) this year, Puth is doing alright for himself. “See You Again” is only growing, and soon enough he may be a global superstar.
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