Justin Bieber Biography - Justin Bieber is the newest singing sensation in the Americas. Born in Stratford, Ontario on March 1, 1994, Justin has quickly become the teenage heart throb for 2009 and 2010 and female fans are going crazy for him.
Justin Bieber - Early Life
Justin Drew Bieber, was born on 1st March, 1994, in Stratford, Ontario. He had done his schooling from Downie Central Public School and also from Avon Public School. His parents were very young when he was born. His mother, Pattie Mallette, was just 18 years old and she raised him as a single mother. Justin's father is Jeremy Bieber. Since a very young age, in fact since the age of 2 years, Justin tried his hand at various musical instruments such as the piano, the drums, the trumpet and the guitar. He was also a very good dancer as well as a good sports person and loved to play hockey, basketball and enjoyed skateboarding. When he was 12 years old, he sang the song "So Sick" by Ne-Yo, at a singing competition and came second. His mother used to record all his video programs and post it on YouTube. Many people watches these videos and they loved it. Who knew that would be these videos that were put up for fun, would be the same ones that would change Justin's whole life.
Beginning of Justin's Career
The next thing that we are going to see in the biography of Justin Bieber is, how he was discovered. One day, the former marketing executive of So So Def, Scooter Braun was going through various websites looking for a singer who would be different and that was when he accidentally clicked on one of the videos of Justin. He saw his performance and heard his singing and it goes without saying that he, Scooter, got his 'different' singer. He traced Justin Bieber's house, contacted his family and wanted to be his manager and wanted to take Justin to Atlanta. Justin was only 13 years old that time. With his parents permission, Justin went to Atlanta and did his first big performance "U got it bad" which was by the famous songwriter, Usher Raymond. Justin did the performance for him. Justin was then signed to Raymond Braun Media Group, which was joint venture between Usher and Braun. Even Justin Timberlake wanted to sign in Justin Bieber, but Usher won. In 2008, Usher signed Justin to Island Records and after that, there was no looking back for Justin and his mother. Braun was Justin's manager.
Some Major Performances
The first major performance of Justin that was released was 'One Time'. It became an instant hit and on the Canadian Hot 100 list, it was in the 12th place and that too in its first week. Towards the end of 2009, this song reached the 17th position on the Billboard Hot 100 and soon this song became famous worldwide. Now not only Canada and United States, but the whole world knew Justin Bieber. USA and Canada, certified the song in platinum, while New Zealand and Australia, did the same in gold.
By November 2009, three of Justin's singles, along with his first album 'My World', was released. The singles were 'Love Me', 'Favorite Girl' and 'One Less Lonely Girl'. These all became instant hits worldwide. Justin became the teen heartthrob for girls across the world. 'My World', in USA and Canada, was certified in Platinum and UK certified silver. He also performed in some of the TV live shows such as 'The Dome', 'The Next Star', 'The Wendy William Show', 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' and several other programs. He also had to do a guest performance in one episode of 'True Jackson, VP' in the year 2009. Besides this, he also performed for Christmas 2009 at the White House for Obama and the First Lady. He sang Stevie Wonder's song, 'Someday at Christmas'. He was there as a presenter at this years 52nd Grammy Awards and was even asked to be a vocalist when the song 'We Are the World' was being given some fresh touches for its 25th anniversary as well as for the benefits of all those people who had been affected by the Haiti earthquake. Recently, during the FIFA World Cup, 2010, people heard him singing the closing lines of K'naan's 'Wavin Flag's' closing lines.
2010, June 23rd, Justin started his world tour to promote 'My World and My World 2.0' and the tour is supposed to end this December. July 2010, Lady Ga Ga's 'Bad Romance' was surpassed by Justin's song 'Baby' and it became the most viewed video ever. All this while, Justin's mentors such as Usher, his mother, his bodyguard Kenny and several of his well wishers took care that all this fame did not get into Justin's head and also helped him to maintain his public image. A good public image is important for being at the top. Usher even asked his former assistant, Ryan Good, to be Justin's stylist and road manager. The 'street look' which Justin sports, was created by Good.
British singer and songwriter, Taio Cruz, is also writing a song for Justin's next album. Besides this, he will also be a guest star in the crime drama series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He will also be starring in a 3-D movie, which will be a movie about himself. Recently, this teenage heartthrob has got a new tattoo done. Want to know about Justin Bieber's new tattoo? It's on his hip and it's a coin sized tattoo of a small bird just about to fly off.
Source: Justinbieberblogon.blogspot.com
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