Venus Palermo

Venus Isabelle Palermo [1]

Venus holding a panel at Otakuthon in 2014.
Born Venus Isabelle Palermo[2]
8 February 1997
Brugg, Switzerland
Ethnicity Swiss, Hungarian[3]
Years active 2003–present,[4]
Known for YouTube personality
Relatives Margaret Palermo (mother)

Modeling information

Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[5]

Musical career

Genres
Instruments
  • Vocals
Website
www.youtube.com/user/venusangelic

Venus Isabelle Palermo[2] (born 8 February 1997), better known as VenusAngelic,[2] is a Swiss-born[6] YouTube personality, known for her doll-like appearance and fashion sense.[7][8][9] Her YouTube channel has over 750,000 subscribers, more than 117 million views and 160 uploaded videos.[10]

Early life and education

Palermo was born in Brugg, Switzerland. Her mother is Margaret Palermo, who met Venus' father whilst a teen studying in Switzerland. The romance was brief, and Margaret was left to raise Venus alone.[11]

In 2008, she moved temporarily to Japan. Whilst in Japan, Palermo was exposed to anime, a look which inspired her videos. She later moved to Tenerife, and whilst there, created her YouTube account in May 2010.[10] On that account, she began to upload videos of herself made up to look like a living doll, reciting instructions on how to achieve said look.[11] These videos rapidly gained attention and she was invited to sing with Japanese singer Rumi Shishido in August 2010[12] and also appeared on Japanese radio.[13] At that time she did not sign an entertainment contract in Japan but returned to Spain from where she continued uploading her videos to YouTube.

Seeing Palermo's potential, in 2011, her mother decided to move to Brixton, South West London with her[14] to pursue Palermo's career.[15] This decision turned out to be a good one, as one of her videos, the one entitled "How to look like a doll", went viral in March 2012.[15][16] As of April 2015, the video has amassed over 12,000,000 views.[17] Since then, her and her mother have been invited to and attended various international television shows, including Daybreak,[18] TLC Discovery[19] and The Morning Show Australia.[20]

Palermo moved to the Netherlands in early 2014 to pursue her education; she was unable to find a school in the UK, and had to be home-schooled by her mother.[21][22] As a consequence of her frequent relocation, she speaks English, Swiss German, German, Spanish, Japanese and Dutch.[13][14][23]

Career

Acting

In 2003, six-year-old Palermo took part in the Swiss movie production Ready, Steady, Charlie! as an extra.[4]

Contests and Pageants

In 2006 Venus Palermo won first place in the "Thai Beauty and Culture Contest" in Gretzenbach, Switzerland on the Loi Krathong Festival.[24]

In 2011 Venus Palermo won the model contest of Bodyline, a Japanese Lolita fashion brand, and modelled for them in 2013.[25]

Music

In 2013 her pre-release cover version of the Icona Pop song, "I Love It", took her to #71 on the UK Singles Chart.[26]

Youtube

She is known online as a "living doll"[27] and creates hair and make-up tutorials showing others how to achieve her look, which has been likened to Japanese anime and video game characters.[28]

References

  1. ↑ "whats-ur-name-in-real-ur-not-venus-parlemo-a". Tumblr. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "VenusAngelic". Twitter. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  3. ↑ "my-nationality". Tumblr. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Achtung, fertig, Charlie! – Trailer". YouTube. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  5. ↑ "VenusAngelic About". Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  6. ↑ Palermo, Venus. "My Nationality". Tumblr. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
  7. ↑ Weird, HuffPost (20 March 2012). "Teenager Venus Angelic Is A Real Living Doll (VIDEO)". Huffington Post. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
  8. ↑ "Venus Palermo's mother praises 15-year-old daughter's obsession with looking like 'living doll'". Daily Mail (London). 4 April 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  9. ↑ "Venus Angelic, 15-Years-Old, Is A Living Doll; See Her With And Without Makeup [PHOTOS]". International Business Times. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Venus Angelic". YouTube. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Venus Palermo: The truth about 15-year-old human Barbie from South London". Daily Mail.
  12. ↑ "Rumi Shishido and Venus Angelic Singing Live "Taisetsu Na Uta"". PostComente. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "2010/8 Ustream Live Broadcast with Rumi, Palillos Redondos and Venusangelic". PostComente. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Venus, who speaks five languages, is home-schooled by Margaret, who is adamant that being a living doll is not harming her daughter". PostComente. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "saying goodbye to tenerife". PostComente. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
  16. ↑ "Teenager Venus Angelic Is A Real Living Doll". PostComente. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
  17. ↑ How to look like a doll. PostComente. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  18. ↑ Daybreak London. PostComente. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
  19. ↑ My Strange Addiction: I'm a Living Doll! TLC Discovery S05 Special 01 January 2014. PostComente. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  20. ↑ The Morning Show Australia. PostComente. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  21. ↑ "I'VE MOVED TO THE NETHERLANDS". Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  22. ↑ Idelfonso, Ronaldo (26 October 2012). "'It makes me happy that I can inspire so many people'". PostComente (London). Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  23. ↑ "how-many-languages-do-you-speak-and-what-are-they". PostComente. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  24. ↑ "Thai Beauty Cotest". Wat Srinagarindravararam. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  25. ↑ "Bodyline-l316". Bodyline.co.jp. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  26. ↑ . The Official Charts Company http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/30296/VENUS-PALERMO/. Retrieved 24 June 2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  27. ↑ Watson, Leon (25 October 2012). "Living doll Venus Palermo talks about her fans and hip-hop loving friends in candid TV interview". Daily Mail (London). Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  28. ↑ "My Strange Addiction: I'm a Living Doll". TLC. Retrieved 24 December 2013.

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