Austin Mahone

Austin Carter Mahone (born 4 April 1996) is an American pop singer who drew attention through some cover songs on the video platform YouTube in 2011.

Life

Austin Mahone lives in a village close to Miami in the U.S. state of Florida, his former place of residence was San Antonio in the U.S. state of Texas.

Mahones father died when Austin was 16 months old. His mother, Michele Mahone pulled him on her own in Seguin. After they had entered into a second marriage, the family moved to La Vernia. There he met Alexander Ruben Constancio know. After the divorce, mother and son in 2011 moved back to San Antonio, where he attended the Lady Bird Johnsen High School. Because discipline problems in school reported him to the mother for distance learning. For him it is thus possible from any location to participate in web-based training. For a better contact with his manager, he and his mother moved to Florida early May 2012.

Career

He began his career in June 2010 along with Alexander Constancio with self-made comedy videos on the video platform YouTube. In January 2011, he launched his own music channel on YouTube. In his videos he coverte especially songs by Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars and Adele. He plays guitar, drums and keyboard. Since 2012, Mahone is managed by Rocco Valdes and Brian Spirio. Mahone also plays a role in the teen series Big Time Rush. He earns his living primarily through merchandising, small concerts and selling his songs on iTunes.

On May 22, 2012, a concert the radio station Q102 was held in Philadelphia under the name " Springle ball " instead, where he had a performance in front of over 15,000 visitors. On August 28, 2012 Mahone signed a recording contract with the joint venture label Chase Records / Universal Republic Records with a value equal to one -digit millions.

Trivia

In November 2011, Mahone debuted by its cover Mistletoe by Justin Bieber on the Billboard Social 50 chart at No. 38 At this time he was the youngest singer who has made ​​it to this list. In early December he even reached number 28 on the Billboard charts.

In October 2011, Mahone wanted to meet park with some fans at Chicago's Millennium. He assumed that about 50 fans would come. When he arrived at the meeting point, umstürmten him about 1000 fans, what the event had to be canceled by the local police. Since then, it prohibits the police conduct public meetings without prior notification and without a bodyguard. For his concerts in New York City and the Aurora family Dave Brytus organized as a personal bodyguard.

End of August 2012 had Mahone 1,050,000 followers on Twitter, 770,000 fans on Facebook and 450,000 subscribers on YouTube. Mahone thus fits into the top 100 in the meistabonnemierten musician on YouTube. In the social network of the portal Keek, sorted by Views, Mahone is the most popular character dar.

Mahone offered his fans until his move to Florida in May every Friday afternoon local time ( UTC-6 ) is a free online concert on the live streaming web portal Ustream at that is by his fans also Austream, a combination of his first name and Ustream called.

Until the signing of the contract with his management in Miami, Austin was managed by his mother. His fans Mahomies, for Mahone a portal with merchandising products can be operated call themselves.

Discography

Austin Mahones first single was 11:11 on the day of his Valentine's Day concert published on 14 February 2012 on iTunes and treated thematically the theme of love, which is to go through a wish at 11:11 clock in fulfillment. In the original, the song in the summer of 2011 by Jakub Andrew, singer of the U.S. band HeyHiHello from Ohio, was published under the title " Eleven Eleven " and later surrendered with all the necessary rights to Mahone. The song was sung in January 2012 by Mahone in a recording studio in Los Angeles and later promoted on Twitter. On the day of publication of his single debuted in the iTunes U.S. Top 100 chart and stayed one for almost a week in these charts. By June 2012, the single was purchased at almost 100,000 times on iTunes.

His second single was released on 5 June 2012 under the title Say Somethin and also rose as 11:11 in the iTunes charts. The song was written by the artists Bei Maejor and Mike Posner and produced in Miami with Austin Mahone in a studio. Thematically, the theme of love is treated in the song, in which the protagonist of the female person is saying indirectly music-piece that she is beautiful.

His third single, Say You're Just a Friend, he sang with Flo Rida. It is available on iTunes in America since 3 December 2012. His fourth single What About Love was released on 10 June 2013. But Mahone received in the same year an award at the MTV Video Music Awards (Artist to Watch ).

His fifth single Banga! Banga! (feat. Sean Garrett ) was published on 10 November and the accompanying video on 11 December 2013. It is about how a girl Mahone stated that it is unique and that he will never stop loving them.

His sixth single MMM YEAH (feat. Pitbull ) was released in January 2014. The official music video was released on March 13, 2014.