before summer Walker would become one of the hottest new R&B acts before she
would collab with artists like partynextdoor a buggy black rice and
Taylor uh sure jhene aiko and drank now
apparently she even inspired Audrey to write some new songs before summer would
clock in over three hundred thirty five thousand followers on Twitter close to
half a million subscribers on YouTube and more than 1.2 million followers on
Instagram at the time of this recording summer walkers quickly becoming one of
the most notable new artists in the army with her signature sound and with the
success of her new album over it well she's proving that she'll be around
to stay but before all the fame will summer she was actually posting covers
onto YouTube just hoping to get discovered
every
that is until summer Walker was discovered accidentally by a record
label exec who has the same name as her yeah sometimes googling yourself it
could lead to your neck signee but we'll get into that a little later in this
video you had my curiosity now you have my attention what's going on guys did
you put Michael Cretu double your host walking through the life and careers I'm
a walker prior to Fame here of you of course them before they're famous now
we've recently covered other singers including Liz oh and LM a so check those
out later as always you guys got to let us know who's next in the comments down
below but before we start I got a little trivia question for you guys no summer
Walker she's got a little bit of a pre-show ritual if you can guess what it
is well I owe you a follow over on
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simmer more Johnny Walker was born on April 11th 1996 in Atlanta Georgia no
summer she grew up in a big family and she was close with her cousins living
with them for the early years of her life now her father is from London
talking about England and her mother is American with the two they actually
divorced no summer she began to cut herself off from most of the people
around her and she spent a lot of her time alone no summer was always an
introspective person who liked to keep to herself but music was always an
influence on her life and she felt like she could confide in the music rather
than people she later added I love music with all my
heart I just have to do it I actually don't have a choice it's like how I have
to breathe that's my drug I'm addicted to it
summers mother said in an interview at time she's just kind of hibernates and
internalize is quite a bit sometimes when she really has deep thoughts and
things on her mind well she goes and sits and gets that guitar out and she
just sits and plays and that's how she expresses herself early on summer she
was influenced by iconic artists such as Jimi Hendrix Erykah Badu and Amy
Winehouse no summer she played guitar and piano and she would sing in her
bathroom practicing her skills but it wasn't just to let her thought to get
out to the world she told Billboard that she also started
singing because she wanted to make money live comfortably and felt that making
music well it could bring her those dollars one day she decided to post her
work online no summer she started posting videos on to vine and opened her
YouTube channel in May of 2013 under the name 96 tsunami I wonder if I can even
say that here on YouTube and that very same day she opened her channel she
posted her first-ever cover of Elle Varner
I don't care
now even back then she had an incredible voice and it's easy to tell that this
girl she was clearly a star now the description of the video it read Project
18 so I'm guessing she actually had made 17 videos on iMovie prior to that
release now the original song and that was close to 100,000 views on YouTube
and summer she was just 17 years old at the time
I got a funny feeling a lot of them views they came after summer blew up
people are always going bad looking at your first video I swear that's kind of
why I built this channel no summer she continued dropping the occasional cover
and a year later her cover of Persian rugs it ended up gaining more than
73,000 views but it was actually her cover 2017 of dranks fake love mashed up
with Rae sremmurd black beetle Beyonce's yes and genuine pony and in that video
she sings alongside two guitarists and the video will he gained her a lot of
buffs girly it's sitting at over 400,000 views other fake people staying fake
love to me straight up to my face in 2018 summer she moved over to posting
covers onto Instagram and started gaining your following from her unique
vocal abilities combined with her guitar playing this dre cover had more than 1
million views at the time it was posted
it's actually crazy as she was so inspired by Drake and now he's hopping
on her songs and sliding into her dance it's like me hanging out at a bar with
Jim Carrey which actually happened yeah guys your dreams can't come true but
before summer would catch her big break well she was actually apparently working
in a strip club and uh well she still practices as a form of therapy is so fun
is like to me is like soothing you just when you get home you just put on your
music and when you can do and you just get to like go in the air and slice now
her life goal is to I literally just want to make so are you saying the word
soap soap that you used to mm-hmm wash your skin or dishes your skin but
summers big break came when her covers were discovered by someone with get this
the exact same name as her yeah another summer Walker she was engaging in a
little bit of self-indulgence and she was googling herself and she came across
a woman with the exact same name as her and this summer Walker oh she's just so
happen to have a beautiful voice now the original summer Walker or the agent well
she worked at a record label called lvr ad and at the time she saw summers
talent and wanted to work with her immediately so she reached out thinking
about all this I know a lot of stars when they Google themselves they find me
but there actually exists another Michael crud he is a professional
footballer out in the UK and I love him to reach out to me maybe we can play
some funny but I probably just go to meet him at a bar as well just this beta
news the co-founder of LV RN says that when he first came across summers covers
on Instagram that summer well she was still working at a strip club when I
first started following her Instagram she was working at the strip club and
then next video would be her playing the acoustic
guitar that's literally two different people that aren't supposed to exist in
one she's just the constant push and pull up like her trying to find herself
just this saw summers talent and knew that she had the potential to become
something great no summer explains that she was invited to the studio one night
by her friend this girl brought me to the studio okay and got me signed so
that the way she makes it look so easy now as you can tell summer she didn't
like to do interviews but however it happened no summer she signed with Elle
vrn and the label also helped launch the careers of DRAM and black so well their
track record was good no summer she began recording her debut project last
day of summer in her bedroom in 2017 where she wrote recorded and produced a
record her South there was she been working on the record for about a year
prior to its release but once she signed with the label well they helped her take
things to a whole nother level she dropped the acoustic single session 32
and people began to get curious about the Atlanta singer who seemed to have a
sound different than most of the music that was popular at the time though she
also dropped a music video to her single girls need love later that summer no
drakey saw summers video on a bowling alley monitor which seems fitting
because the music video took place at a roller rink
you know same type of atmosphere and so Drake well he naturally slid into her
DMS and told her he liked her music so after some hesitation well she asked if
you wanted to hop on her song and he said yes my god I saw you a video on a
bowling alley monitor thought it was cool and then justice made me ask him
and he said yes On February 27 2009 teen the remix the girls need love was
released with a brand new verse from Drizzy Dre and the Sun it ended up
charting at number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart becoming her first entry
the song built up a lot of hype for her next release and fan
they couldn't wait to hear what the singer had to say next and fans they
weren't disappointed when she released her album over it with features from
some of the biggest names in music I chose the album title over it because
that is the perfect way to describe how I feel about life right now summer says
that she's a little bit nervous when it comes to speaking in public but when she
gets on stage all of her nerves go away and she just takes it all out on the
stage I'm guessing that's some experience from the strip club I'm just
just guessing now currently she is dating super producer London on the
track and not only do they make hit records together but they also go on
queue dates after the studio they say a couple who works together either stays
together like Jim and Pam or they end up wanting to kill each other so wish me
and care a whole lot of luck hopefully their relationship well it looks more
like the former though in terms of her pre-performance ritual I thought my
backstage rituals is that shouldn't that's pretty much what I do here before
they show you know it's a lot of me stressing myself out you don't want
stuff going the other way no shouting on camera it's not a good luck it's not
good for the studio uh-huh as for what's next well it seems like she's gonna be
calling it quits hopefully a retirement retirement you tired yeah I'm tired but
we hope that she's just joking because I know there is a lot more to go for
summer as for the rest of the story well I guess we're just gonna wrap this one
up here because this of course is before they're famous my name's michael
crichton we make all sorts every bios here for you on this channel be sure to
let us know who's next in the comments down below
summer Walker if you're watching this video why don't you slide into mydx I'm
just like Drake just a whole lot whiter way less talented and but just as
popular and drop I like one bar when Jim Carrey
stands me up and the soccer player even nelq stood me up
goddamnit I don't know what to tell you shit see you guys another video