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Lindsey Stirling

Lindsey Stirling is an American violinist, dancer, performance artist, and composer. She presents choreographed violin performances, both live and in music videos found on her YouTube channel, Lindsey Stirling, which she introduced in 2007.
Stirling performs a variety of music styles, from classical to pop and hip-hop to electronic dance music. Aside from original work, her discography contains covers of songs by other musicians and various soundtracks. Her music video, "Crystallize" finished as the eighth-most watched video of 2012, and her cover version of "Radioactive" with Pentatonix won Response of the Year in the first YouTube Music Awards in 2013. Stirling achieved one million singles sold worldwide by August of 2014. As of April 2015, her Lindseystomp YouTube channel exceeded 6 million subscribers and over 980 million total views.
Stirling has been named in Forbes magazine's, 30 Under 30 In Music: The Class Of 2015. Forbes notes her quarter-finalist position on America's Got Talent season five in 2010, a #2 position on the Billboard 200 for her second album Shatter Me in 2014, and her 6 million subscribers on YouTube.

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Christina Grimmie

Christina Victoria Grimmie (March 12, 1994 – June 10, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and YouTuber. Grimmie began posting covers of popular songs onto YouTube in 2009. In June 2011, she released her debut EP, Find Me. Later that month, she also reached one million subscribers on her YouTube channel. After her channel reached two million subscribers, she released her debut studio album, With Love (2013).
In 2014, Grimmie was a contestant on season 6 of The Voice and finished in third place. Adam Levine, her coach on the show, announced in the finale that regardless of the results he would sign her to his label 222 Records. Lil Wayne also offered to sign her to his label, Young Money Entertainment. She was signed with Island Records for a short time before being dropped.
In 2016, Grimmie released her second EP, Side A. This same year, she also took on an acting role, making her first and only motion picture appearance in The Matchbreaker. 
On June 10, 2016, Grimmie was fatally shot in a murder-suicide by an obsessed fan. The shooting occurred while she was signing autographs following a concert performance at The Plaza Live in Orlando, Florida.
In 2017, Side B, a posthumous follow up to Side A, was made available on Spotify and iTunes. On June 9, 2017, her second and final album, All Is Vanity, was released posthumously. In 2019, her YouTube channel reached four million subscribers.

Pentatonix

Pentatonix is an American a cappella group of five vocalists originating from Arlington, Texas. Their work, which is mostly in the pop music style, consists of covers of existing songs, sometimes in the form of medleys, along with some original material. Their music is defined by their own arrangement style, a strong presence of low bass vocals, and a diverse range of vocal percussion.
Pentatonix formed in 2011 and came to prominence the same year by winning the third season of The Sing-Off on NBC, their victory earning them $200,000 and a recording contract with Sony Music. After being dropped from their label after The Sing-Off, they formed their popular YouTube channel and distributed their music through Madison Gate Records, a small independent label owned by Sony Pictures that distributes movie soundtracks. They also made effective use of social media to interact with their fan base.

The Piano Guys

The Piano Guys are an American musical group consisting of Jon Schmidt, Steven Sharp Nelson, Paul Anderson, and Al van der Beek. They gained popularity through YouTube, where they posted piano and cello renditions of popular songs and classical music. Schmidt and Nelson's music is accompanied by professional-quality videos shot and edited by Paul Anderson and formerly by Tel Stewart. Their first four major-label albums The Piano Guys, The Piano Guys 2, A Family Christmas, and Wonders each reached number one on the Billboard New Age Albums and Classical Albums charts. The Piano Guys' newest album Wonders was released on October 7, 2014.

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Peter Hollens

Peter Hollens is an American singer/songwriter, producer and entrepreneur. He has been involved with a cappella music since 1999 when he and Leo da Silva founded the University of Oregon's a cappella group, On The Rocks, known as the first official collegiate a cappella group in Oregon. He regularly releases new music videos to his YouTube channel.

Kurt Hugo Schneider

Kurt Hugo Schneider (born September 7, 1988), sometimes referred to by his initials KHS, is an American video editor, producer, musician, singer and songwriter, whose primary medium is YouTube music videos. He produces music videos for various YouTube musicians, such as Sam Tsui, including medley videos in which Tsui sings as a one-man choir.

Boyce Avenue

Boyce Avenue is an American pop and rock band formed in Sarasota, Florida, by brothers Alejandro Luis Manzano, Daniel Enrique Manzano, and Fabian Rafael Manzano. The brothers attended Pine View School in Osprey, Florida. The band is named after a combination of two streets the brothers lived on as children. As of August 9, 2011, they are no longer signed to Universal Republic Records and have started their own independent record label called 3 Peace Records. Boyce Avenue releases original music as well as covers of contemporary and classic songs on YouTube. They have also collaborated with other YouTube artists such as Hannah Trigwell, Kina Grannis, Tiffany Alvord, Megan Nicole, Alex Goot, Megan and Liz, David Choi, Tyler Ward, Savannah Outen, Cobus Potgieter, John Robby Deleon and DeStorm Power and The X Factor season two finalists Fifth Harmony, Bea Miller, Diamond White, Carly Rose Sonenclar, actress Sarah Hyland, and Connie Talbot.
Boyce Avenue frequently tours in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Southeast Asia.



Bad Lip Reading

Bad Lip Reading is a YouTube channel, run by an anonymous individual in the music production business, that spoofs clips from films, TV shows, songs, sports, and political news stories by overdubbing humorous vocal work that matches the lip movements of the targets. Rolling Stone described the channel as "the breakout hit" of the 2012 United States presidential election cycle. As of November 2014, the Bad Lip Reading YouTube channel had amassed over 4.1 million subscribers and over 424 million views across its videos. The creator declines to identify himself.

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Sam Tsui

Samuel Tsui (born May 2, 1989) is an American singer/songwriter, video producer and actor. He rose to fame as an Internet celebrity and is known for covering songs by popular artists like Adele, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars and lot more, as well as some original songs, medleys, and mashups, along with his frequent collaborations with fellow YouTuber Kurt Hugo Schneider. As of August 25, 2018, Tsui had reached 3 million subscribers.

Walk off the Earth

Walk off the Earth is a Canadian rock, Ska, and Reggae band that was formed in 2006 in Burlington, Ontario, and has gained success around the world by making low-budget music videos of covers and originals. The band built its fan base independently with no help from record labels, booking agents, or management. In February 2012, the music industry publication Crazed Hits reported that the band had signed a recording contract with Columbia Records. The band is best known for its covers of popular music on YouTube, making use of uncommon instruments such as the ukulele and the theremin, as well as looping samples. The band's recorded music and videos are produced by member and multi-instrumentalist, Gianni "Luminati" Nicassio.

Evynne Hollens

Maxwell George "Max" Schneider (born June 21, 1992), known professionally in music as MAX, is an American actor, model, dancer, songwriter, and singer. Since 2015, he is signed to DCD2.

Alex Boye

Alex Boyé is a British-born Mormon singer and actor of Nigerian descent.

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Alex Goot

Alexander George Gut is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist from New York. Goot grew rapidly through the channel lists YouTube Top 200 with his covers of famous songs and his original songs such as "Sensitivity". His celebrity has since fallen and he is now ranked in the 400's amoung subscribers and 800's in views. His channel, GootMusic, is one among the over 500 registered with more than one million subscribers. He plays acoustic guitar, bass guitar, piano, drums and other instruments.

Taylor Davis

Taylor Davis is an American violinist, arranger, and composer. Davis is best known for her violin-covers of music from video games featured on her YouTube channel "ViolinTay", where she also features performances of her own arrangements of music from films and musicals. From July 2013, she has begun releasing her own original compositions as well.
During 2012 Davis released two albums and an assortment of singles. The first album is called "Gaming Fantasy", and it features tunes from various video games arranged for violin. Six months later "An Enchanted Christmas" was released. In January 2013, Davis publishes her third album, called "Game On: 2 Player mode". It has been co-produced and arranged along with Australian pianist Lara de Wit. With the help of a MIDI keyboard and the DAW "Logic Pro", Davis created all of the orchestral backtracks for these works. "Legendary Movie Music", the fourth album, was released in July 2013. This was the first project that has been arranged and orchestrated in collaboration with the composer Adam Gubman.

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Alex Greggs is a Canadian songwriter, record producer, and remixer. He has worked with some of the biggest names in pop and hip hop. He started as a leading producer in the Canadian music scene, notably for Love Inc.. Then he branched to more international status with writing for many renowned artists, most notably 'N Sync.
Now based in Hollywood, California, he has also co-written more recently with Beau Dozier and wrote the song "China Funk" for the 2009 film Push.
He is co-owner of South Rakkas Crew record label, along with the label's creator Dennis 'D-Rakkas' Shaw, an influential label in Electro and Dancehall music on Diplo's Mad Decent label. He is also co-founder of Riprock 'n' Alex G Productions with fellow musician Brad Daymond and a former band member of Love Inc..
MusicFreedom.com, a brainchild of Alex Greggs, was launched in August 2005 as an online music community dedicated to helping unsigned acts get noticed. The privately held company is backed by Greggs with two co-founder partners, Bill Marquez, CEO of search engine Nelster, and 'N Sync's JC Chasez, as an alternative to iTunes and other music download sites.

Tyler Ward

Tyler Ray Ward (born March 12, 1988) is an American independent singer, writer and producer. Ward has become a well-known artist in part through his use of social media, posting a mix of covers and originals on YouTube. Ward has successfully completed five worldwide headlining tours and has played shows with many mainstream artists including Switchfoot, The Beach Boys, Aloe Blacc, The Jonas Brothers, The Fray and many more. In 2011, Ward performed a duet with The Band Perry, celebrating the Academy of Country Music Awards and went on a tour with Boyce Avenue. Later that year, Ward performed with Christina Grimmie live on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Their performance aired nationwide on October 10, 2011.

Megan Nicole

Megan Nicole Flores (born September 1, 1993), simply known as Megan Nicole, is an American singer-songwriter and actress who debuted on YouTube in 2009. Nicole released her first original song, "B-e-a-utiful", on July 15, 2011. In August 2012, Nicole signed with Bad Boy Records. On August 19, 2014 Megan Nicole released her single "Electrified". This was her first single off of her debut album Escape, which is an independent release on Hume Records, following her departure from Bad Boy Records.

Ricky Dillon

Richard Porter Dillon Jr. (born April 4, 1992), also known as Ricky Dillon, is an American YouTube personality and singer-songwriter. Over his ten years on YouTube, Dillon has amassed over 3.2 million subscribers on his channel, as well as more than 413 million views on his videos.

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