| brentalfloss | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Brent Black |
| Born | April 12, 1984 Dallas, Texas, USA |
| Genres | Comedy, video game music |
| Occupations | Songwriter, lyricist, singer |
| Years active | 2007–Present |
| Website | www.brentalfloss.com |
brentalfloss (Real name Brent Black) (born April 12, 1984) is an American songwriter, lyricist, and singer, who has achieved some notoriety mainly on YouTube.[1]
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Brent was born in Dallas, Texas. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Oklahoma.[2] He went on to earn his master's degree in musical theatre writing at New York University (NYU). In his time at NYU, he co-wrote a musical with composer Rob Broadhurst called "I’ll Be Damned" which had a limited Off-Broadway run at the Vineyard Theatre in New York City in 2010.[3]
Using his brentalfloss YouTube account, Brent adds humorous lyrics to video game music.[4] He is known most commonly by his YouTube username, "brentalfloss". His lyrics include words set to the first two levels of Doctor Wily's castle from Mega Man 2 and the Russian folk song "Korobeiniki," popularized by the game Tetris. Brent's channel, brentalfloss, currently has over 100,000 subscribers. Brent's website indicates that his stage name "brentalfloss" is always intentionally spelled with lower-case letters.[1]
Brent has gone beyond making YouTube videos, branching out into releasing albums. His first CD, What If This CD... Had Lyrics? was released in the spring of 2010.[5] It contains re-recorded versions of every song of his "With Lyrics" series that was released at that time, plus additional CD-exclusive songs. It features fellow video game bands The Megas and The Konami Code. This CD has had tracks in the top 100 on iTunes comedy charts worldwide.[6] He has also released a G-Rated and instrumental version of the album. In early 2011, he released The Super-Secret EP under the pseudonym "DJ Super Secret", which was revealed to members of his mailing list first, and was released to public afterwards. Brent later set up a fundraising page on his site to try to garner funds for a second CD, which reached its goal of $4000. He is currently aiming to release the CD by Christmas 2011. In November 2011, he played a guest role in the musical review of Moulin Rouge! by the Nostalgia Critic, for which he also wrote the lyrics for. The official soundtrack is available. Brent currently has his own webcomic series, written by Dan Roth and illustrated by Andrew Dobson.