Charlie Puth
Charles Otto Puth Jr. (/puːθ/ born December 2, 1991) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. His initial exposure came through the viral success of his song covers uploaded to YouTube. Puth signed with the record label eleveneleven in 2011 after performing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, while also songwriting and producing material for other artists.
Charlie Puth
Charles Otto Puth Jr.
December 2, 1991
Rumson, New Jersey, U.S.
- Singer
- songwriter
- record producer
- Vocals
- piano
2009–present
- APG
- Atlantic
- Loudr
- eleveneleven
Puth eventually signed to Atlantic Records and Artist Partner Group to release his debut single, "Marvin Gaye" (featuring Meghan Trainor) in 2015.[3] Later that year, he was featured on the single "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa, which peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 for 12 non-consecutive weeks, received diamond certification from the RIAA, and earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song nomination, along with three nominations at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards including Song of the Year.
Puth's debut studio album Nine Track Mind was released in 2016 to moderate commercial success and generally negative critical reception; it reached the top 10 in the US and UK. The album's third single, "We Don't Talk Anymore" (featuring Selena Gomez), peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100. His second album, Voicenotes (2018), was met with slightly improved critical reception and similar commercial success. The album spawned the Hot 100 top-five single "Attention", and received a nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards. In 2021, Puth co-wrote and produced the single "Stay" for Justin Bieber and The Kid Laroi, becoming his first non-performing production to peak the Billboard Hot 100 as it achieved further success internationally. Puth's third studio album, Charlie, was released in 2022. It was preceded by the singles "Light Switch" and "Left and Right" (featuring Jungkook), both of which reached the top thirty on the Hot 100.
Early life[edit]
Charles Otto Puth Jr. was born December 2, 1991, in Rumson, New Jersey,[4] to Debra, a music teacher[5][6] who also wrote commercials for HBO,[7] and Charles Otto Puth Sr., a builder and real estate agent.[5] He has two younger siblings, twins Stephen and Mikaela.[5] Their father is Catholic[8] and their mother is Jewish.[9]
As a two-year-old, Puth's right eyebrow was permanently scarred in a nearly fatal dog bite incident.[10] His mother introduced him to classical music and began teaching him the piano at age four.[11] He started studying jazz at age 10[11] and participated in a summer youth jazz ensemble at Count Basie Theatre's Cool School[6] in Red Bank, New Jersey at 12.[12] Puth was once hired by The Count Basie Theatre to play in a Charlie Brown production.[6] In grade six, he went door to door selling a Christmas album called Have a Very Charlie Christmas that he had recorded and produced, making $600 in sales.[11][13]
He attended the Holy Cross School, Rumson, and Forrestdale Middle School,[14] before graduating from the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School in 2010.[15] During his seventh grade to senior years, he attended Manhattan School of Music Pre-College[16] as a jazz piano major and a classical studies minor.[14][17] Puth is a 2013 graduate of Berklee College of Music, where he majored in music production and engineering.[18]
Career[edit]
2009–2014: Career beginnings[edit]
In September 2009, he started his own YouTube channel, entitled Charlies Vlogs, posting comedy videos and acoustic covers.[19] In 2010, Puth released the music video of his first song, "These Are My Sexy Shades".[20] In December 2010, he released his debut extended play, The Otto Tunes, an independent release.[21] 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.[16] 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".[22] Puth and Luther had performed the song on the show.[23] In December 2012 he released a promotional single, "Break Again", with additional vocals by Emily Luther.[24] The music video was released days later.[25] On January 25, 2012, Puth and Luther performed the song and Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.[26] Puth also performed at an event supporting DKMS Delete Blood Cancer, the world's largest bone marrow donor center, in October 2012.[27] Puth left eleveneleven in late 2012.
On October 23, 2013, he released his second independent extended play, Ego, to streaming online.[28][29] 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."[30] The music video was directed by Andrew Vallentine[31] In the same year, he co-wrote the song "Celebrate" on Pitbull's eighth studio album Globalization.[32]
Personal life[edit]
Growing up, Puth was bullied at school. He said, "They would team up against me so bad and they would kick me in a place that wouldn't feel fantastic and I would need to throw up and they would then say I was pretending to throw up."[90] On On Air with Ryan Seacrest he said he had a nervous breakdown from "just being overworked—and I'm in my head a lot and that, in combination with jetlag and, you know, the self-realization that I am getting more famous and my privacy goes out the window pretty much every day—it's just not what I'm used to, and I don't think I'm ever going to be used to it, and my therapy is to just put melody to it and sing it."[91]
Puth started collaborating with clothing brand Hollister Co. in 2017.[92][93]
He said that Justin Bieber's "viral leap into superstardom as a result of YouTube" influenced him to attempt the same.[94]
In 2022, he began dating Brooke Sansone, an old family friend. On December 2, Puth made it official on his Instagram account.[95] On September 7, 2023, he confirmed the couple is engaged.[96]
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