Kurt Hugo Schneider
Kurt Hugo Schneider ( born September 7, 1988) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and filmmaker who spread his videos mainly on YouTube. He produced music videos for various YouTube artists such as Sam Tsui, including the medley videos in which Tsui simulates a one-man choir.
Biography
Schneider grew up in Blue Bell, a suburb of Philadelphia, just a street away from Sam Tsui, whom he met at the Wissahickon High School. Schneider has German and Austrian roots, by his own admission, both paternal grandparents are born in Vienna. Schneider made in 2010 from Yale University with a degree in mathematics; During his studies he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Association. He has an older sister who is a classical pianist.
Schneider was at the age of 15 years National Chess Champion and played chess for Yale's chess team.
Career
Schneider began during his high school years and his university visit with Tsui cooperate and videos produced by Tsui, in which he sings covers and medleys. He also directed by Sam Tsui and other stakeholders an online musical series ( Musical College ) and produced his own songs Tsui.
The first media attention were the two with a Michael Jackson medley. With over 31 million views, it is currently the video with the fourth highest calling on Schneider's YouTube channel, which counts more than 600 million page views and over 4 million subscribers. The medley is one of many where tailors using video programs a one-man choir illusion of where Tsui sings both the main, and the background vocals and appears in the video in several places simultaneously. This medley was named by Time as a combination of Glee and Attack of the Clones. The viral videos led to several appearances on American television, such as The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. On 3 February 2011 a cover of Hold it against me, in which Sam Tsui singing, playing the piano and Schneider was the percussion makes, linked to Britney Spears 's official website.
The popularity that reached the two with their videos, led them to expand their activities to other YouTube projects, so that in the summer of 2010, her film College Musical: The Movie was completed. This film is based on the previously uploaded parts of the web series College Musical. September 2010 began to publish his own pieces Schneider and Tsui, Tsui was published in May 2013 album Make it up.