Before younger sister Halle would land the role of Ariel in the live action remake of
Disney's The Little Mermaid which was met with mixed reactions.
Before Chloe X Halle would clock in almost 2 Million followers on Instagram, a quarter
million on Twitter and over a 1 Million Subscribers on YouTube at the time of this recording.
Before the sisters would perform at the 2016 BET Awards
and would pick up a Best New Artist nomination for 2019 Grammys.
Now we all know Beyonce had twins but it wasn't these girls although it might as well be...
with Queen Bee having discovered this sister act on YouTube and having mentored them during
the recent years of their careers.
For this video I'll be focusing on both Halle and her big sister Chloe.
People might think that these two have just arrived on the scene but these girls have
been acting since they were in diapers.
Fate would bring the Bailey family to meeting Beyonce way back in 2003 when older sister
Chloe was cast to portray baby Beyonce in the film Fighting Temptations.
Halle would get her first movie role at 6 and the two would go on to become the winner
of Radio Disney's The Next Big Thing in 2013.
More recent credits include their work on Grown-ish.
Seeing as these sister grew up on the internet there is plenty of photos and video of them
prior to becoming famous, take a look at this: I was expecting her to yell, What Are Those
Though?
What's going on guys?
It's your boy Michael McCrudden hitting you with another Before They Were Famous video,
this time on the two sisters who make of Chloe X Halle.
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Chloe Bailey was born on July 1st, 1998 and Halle Bailey was born on March 27, 2000.
Both in Atlanta, Georgia to parents Doug and Courtney.
Their mother Courtney worked as an HR recruiter for Twitter.
Dad Doug left his lucrative career as a stockbroker and is now a full-time manager to his star
daughters.
The girls have an older sister in her later 20's named Sky who filmed their earliest YouTube
videos and a younger brother named Branson who they dote on about online.
Their mom Courtney signed the girls up for acting thinking it would be good for their
confidence and no major expectations of what was to come.
Chloe booked her first audition to play baby Beyonce in Fighting Temptations, for this
gig she beat out 500 other little girls.
Not only did she get the gig, the family attended the wrap party and Chloe got a photo hugging
Queen Bey.
Halle was next to land a gig in the feature film Last Holiday with Queen Latifah when
she was 6.
From there the girls would stick to musical performances at talent shows and summers camps
some of which you can find still on their YouTube channel.
Both girls are vegan and strong believers in The Secret and The Law of Attraction and
got to work on manifesting their own future.
They were also constantly being told that they should upload their stuff to YouTube
but at first there parents weren't so sure.
When Doug and Courtney finally agreed their cappella cover of Beyonce's “Best Thing
I Never Had” went viral and all of a sudden their house phone got a call from the Ellen
show.
They never ended up on The Ellen show but the attention did land them on Radio Disney's
The Next Big Thing which they won had them touring the country.
Previous to this, the girls had been attending public school in Georgia before the family
made the move to Los Angeles and switched them to home schooling so they could focus
on their now blossoming careers and took advantage of all the opportunities coming from their
YouTube channel.
Their early videos garnered only three to four hundred views, but their undeniable talent
soon drew in millions of views.
The sisters taught themselves to play piano and guitar from watching YouTube videos, do
all their own vocal arrangements, and record their own demos.
When they need to record, they make their parents and brother promise not to turn on
the TV and shut the door to the living room.
Most people just assume the two are twins.
Super fans started pointing out their differences in the comment section and debating which
one of them is the next Beyonce.
Chloe has the more classic R&B voice with heavy vibrato, while Halle’s voice is tremulous
with jazz inflections.
The girls would cover all sorts of artists everyone from Adele, Kendrick Lamar to Cardi
b.
The girls noticed pretty quickly what their audience likes most of all which was their
Beyonce covers.
It was their cover of Beyonce's 'Pretty Hurts' which caught the attention of Beyonce herself
in 2013.
It wasn't long before Beyonce signed the Bailey sisters to her label, Parkwood Entertainment.
Soon enough the girls found themselves on the European leg of her Formation World Tour
in 2016 as an opening act.
They also made appearances in Beyonce's Lemonade visual album.
Eventually, as Chloe x Halle, they released an EP in 2016 titled Sugar Symphony, which
spawned two singles "Drop" and "Fall."
"Drop" has more than 5 million views on YouTube, while "Fall" has racked up more than 1.5 million.
The next year they released a second EP titled The Two of Us which Rolling Stone named the
best R&B Albums of 2017.
In 2018, Chloe x Halle released their debut album, The Kids Are All Right, which they
wrote and executive produced themselves.
Simultaneously the girls continued to book acting roles.
The girls landed recurring roles on Grown-ish and appeared on the Disney's Channel's Austin
& Ally also Tyler Perry's House of Payne.
I'm assuming both sisters auditioned for the role of Ariel but it was younger sister Halle
who nabbed the starring role.
Director Rob Marshall says that apart from Bailey having a glorious singing voice, she
also possesses that rare combination of spirit, heart, youth, innocence and substance that
are the intrinsic qualities necessary to play this iconic role.
But of course with everything that happens now a days there will always be detractors
with people upset that Ariel won't be portrayed as a white girl especially from the gingers.
Aright guys, I'm wrapping up this video here.
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