Germán Garmendia
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Germán Alejandro Garmendia Aranis 25 April 1990[1] Santiago, Chile[2][3] | |||||||||
| Nationality | Chilean | |||||||||
| Residence | Los Angeles, California[2] | |||||||||
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| Channel name | HolaSoyGerman | |||||||||
| Created by | Germán Garmendia | |||||||||
| Years active | 2011–present | |||||||||
| Genre | Comedy | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 26 million (November, 2015) | |||||||||
| Total views | 2.2 billion (October, 2015) | |||||||||
| Network | Machinima | |||||||||
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Germán Alejandro Garmendia Aranis, known by his YouTube channel HolaSoyGermán, is a Chilean YouTube comedian.
Early life and YouTube career
Garmendia was born on April 25, 1990 in Santiago. His father died in a car accident when he was a child. He has a brother, from whom he lived separately during childhood until reuniting in Los Vilos. He had an interest in music from a young age, and when he was 13 he formed a band with his brother.[4]
Garmendia uploaded his first YouTube video in 2011, after he was encouraged by a friend.[5][6]
As of December 1, 2014, his YouTube channel has over twenty one million subscribers, ranking him as the second most subscribed channel on YouTube.[7]
On August 2014 and 2015, he won the "Icon of the Year" prize from MTV Millennial Awards 2014.[8] He made an appearance in YouTube Rewind 2014[9] and 2015.[10]
Incident in Mexico
In April 2014, Garmendia was scheduled to appear at the Telmex Digital Village in Zócalo, Mexico City.[11] The event experienced an unplanned excess of attendees, and many people waiting in line to see Garmendia fainted due to heat exposure, and had to be evacuated. Eventually, the crowd became unruly, with attendees forcing their way past barriers and into the tented area, causing many injuries. Ten people were injured when a light element fell into the crowd. After security regained control of the situation, the crowd was dispersed and Garmendia's event was cancelled. He later expressed condolences to his fans for the incident.[12][13]
External links
- Havana Times, A Popular Chilean Circulates in Cuba from PC to PC
References
- ↑ Rosie Matheson. YouTube Famous: Making it big on the internet. 2015. Available at Google Books.
- 1 2 BBC Mundo, Germán Garmendia: el chileno que arrasa en internet con su humor de lo cotidiano, 21 August 2013
- ↑ Top 20 YouTuber, HolaSoyGerman
- ↑ "Germán Garmendia de "Hola soy Germán": el chileno que arrasa en internet con su humor de lo cotidiano". El Comercio. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ↑ "Germán Garmendia de "Hola soy Germán": el chileno que arrasa en internet con su humor de lo cotidiano". El Comercio. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
- ↑ Redacción Revista Tierra Cultah. "Manual Práctico: Compilado de personas y personajes atacameños conocidos o históricos". Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ↑ "YouTube Top 100 Most Subscribed Channels List - Top by Subscribers". vidstatsx.com.
- ↑ "Creador de "Hola soy Germán" gana premio en los MTV Millennial Awards 2014". Emol. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ↑ HolaSoyGerman in Youtube Rewind: Turn Down For 2014..
- ↑ HolaSoyGerman is Youtube Rewind: Now Watch Me 2015..
- ↑ Telcel. "World's Largest Digital Inclusion Event returns to Mexico City from April 11- April 27, 2014". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ↑ "SSPDF confirma 10 lesionados en incidente en Aldea Digital". El Universal. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ↑ "Deja tumulto 13 lesionados durante la "Aldea Digital"". www.telediario.mx. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
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