The Oklahoma singer who became a YouTube sensation as a kid now writes his own songs.
For the full arc, listen to 'Paparazzi' and then 'Bleed You Still.' It's all there.
That school talent show cover of Lady Gaga's 'Paparazzi' changed everything when it blew up online in 2009. Ellen DeGeneres signed him, and his debut album landed at number 16 on the Billboard 200. Years later, songs like 'Bleed You Still' and 'shut up' from his 2019 album 'Portraits' show a different, more personal voice.
He was 12 in Edmond, Oklahoma when the 'Paparazzi' video went viral. After his 2010 debut 'Waiting Outside the Lines,' he stepped back from music for several years. He returned in 2019 with the album 'Portraits.'
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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