Sam Tsui

Sam Tsui launched his career on the internet, where the American pop singer began uploading his vocal performances during the late 2000s. Born to a Cantonese father and Caucasian mother on May 2, 1989, he was raised in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, and began collaborating with his high-school friend Kurt Schneider as a teenager. The two both attended Yale University and continued their musical partnership as college students, with Schneider producing Tsui's covers of pop songs by Britney Spears, Nelly, and Michael Jackson. Some of those performances were collected on Tsui's debut EP, The Covers, which was released in 2013. He began recording original material that same year, and his first full-length album Make It Up eventually arrived in 2013. Sam Tsui was nominated for "Best YouTube Musician" at The Shorty Awards in 2015 and continued to build an audience on the video-sharing platform with his combination of pop covers — including Adele's "25," The Weeknd's "Can't Feel my Way," and Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop the Feeling" — and original songs. A second album, Trust, was released in 2018. Four years later, his version of Jon Bellion's "All Time Low" became a hit in South Korea, reaching Number 157 on the country's charts.