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Based on the popular YouTube Channel 'Before They Were Famous' with over 3 Million YouTube Subscribers & nearly 1 Billion views. This is the audio version of those recordings documenting the rise ... more
FAQs about Before They Were Famous:How many episodes does Before They Were Famous have?The podcast currently has 2,754 episodes available.
June 24, 2020RITA ORA | Before They Were FamousBefore Rita Ora would release her self titled debut album and appear at #1 on the UK charts. Before she would be in movies such as Fast and Furious 6 and Fifty Shades of Grey.Before she would tour and headline for bands such as Coldplay and Drake. Her parents left Kosovo during the reign of a brutal dictatorship and fled to England in 1991. Her mother Vera was a psychiatrist and her father Besnik was a pub owner. Rita got her start singing open mic nights in her father’s pub. Later she would audition to represent the UK in eurovision’s song contest competition but withdrew because she didn’t feel ready. Shortly afterwards she would attract the attention of DJ Fresh for his track “Hot Right Now” which would pave the way for her rise to fame....more6minPlay
June 24, 2020RITA ORA | Before They Were FamousBefore Rita Ora would release her self titled debut album and appear at #1 on the UK charts. Before she would be in movies such as Fast and Furious 6 and Fifty Shades of Grey.Before she would tour and headline for bands such as Coldplay and Drake. Her parents left Kosovo during the reign of a brutal dictatorship and fled to England in 1991. Her mother Vera was a psychiatrist and her father Besnik was a pub owner. Rita got her start singing open mic nights in her father’s pub. Later she would audition to represent the UK in eurovision’s song contest competition but withdrew because she didn’t feel ready. Shortly afterwards she would attract the attention of DJ Fresh for his track “Hot Right Now” which would pave the way for her rise to fame....more6minPlay
June 24, 2020Renee Somerfield | Before They Were Famous - 2016Renee Somerfield was just a young vibrant Aussie girl who loved the beach and oddly enough considered herself a tomboy. But In 2014, all of that changed when Renee got her first part in an international blockbuster movie, San Andreas, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, released the following year....more7minPlay
June 24, 2020Renee Somerfield | Before They Were Famous - 2016Renee Somerfield was just a young vibrant Aussie girl who loved the beach and oddly enough considered herself a tomboy. But In 2014, all of that changed when Renee got her first part in an international blockbuster movie, San Andreas, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, released the following year....more7minPlay
June 24, 2020RCLBeauty101 | Before They Were Famous - Rachel LevinRachel Levinrealized pretty early on in life that she was a bit of a girly girl with her first word being that of lipstick. Her large family soon discovered that she also had the gift of the gab, speaking in full sentences at only 9 months. By the age of 15 she had found an outlet for these two passions and posted her first video to YouTube. A few short months later she was featured in the Wall Street Journal and watched her fan base blossom from a few subscribers to a few millions, they are known known as Levinators – these are the die hards and there are a whole ton of them, I witnessed this first hand at vidcon....more6minPlay
June 24, 2020RCLBeauty101 | Before They Were Famous - Rachel LevinRachel Levinrealized pretty early on in life that she was a bit of a girly girl with her first word being that of lipstick. Her large family soon discovered that she also had the gift of the gab, speaking in full sentences at only 9 months. By the age of 15 she had found an outlet for these two passions and posted her first video to YouTube. A few short months later she was featured in the Wall Street Journal and watched her fan base blossom from a few subscribers to a few millions, they are known known as Levinators – these are the die hards and there are a whole ton of them, I witnessed this first hand at vidcon....more6minPlay
June 24, 2020RAY WILLIAM JOHNSON | Before They Were FamousRay William Johnson was walked out on by his drug-addict father at a young age. His mother and grandparents raised him through financial troubles and he turned to comedy and comic books to let his imagination run wild. He developed his writing abilities early on, penning his own movie scripts in high school...literally… he couldn’t afford a computer so he wrote that baby by hand. He was working through school and managed to save up money to pursue his education further in law school but a forged signature by his biological father would leave his account penny-less....more9minPlay
June 24, 2020RAY WILLIAM JOHNSON | Before They Were FamousRay William Johnson was walked out on by his drug-addict father at a young age. His mother and grandparents raised him through financial troubles and he turned to comedy and comic books to let his imagination run wild. He developed his writing abilities early on, penning his own movie scripts in high school...literally… he couldn’t afford a computer so he wrote that baby by hand. He was working through school and managed to save up money to pursue his education further in law school but a forged signature by his biological father would leave his account penny-less....more9minPlay
June 24, 2020PRINCE | Before They Were DEAD - Prince Rogers NelsonSadly Prince was found dead in his home on April 21st, 2016. The artist had been battling a nasty flu, he was over worked and on top of this he had also suffered from Epileptic Seizures throughout his youth. In his later years he kept pretty quiet which was in some part due to his religious regulations being a Jehovah Witness. But back in the 80's & 90's this man was on the top of every chart. He was actually the artist responsible for warning graphics being put on albums after then senator Al Gore caught his daughter jamming out to Prince's sexual tunes. This further added to his appeal of pushing boundaries which in turn made him more and more mainstream and he was given the job of making the soundtrack for the original Batman film....more9minPlay
June 24, 2020PRINCE | Before They Were DEAD - Prince Rogers NelsonSadly Prince was found dead in his home on April 21st, 2016. The artist had been battling a nasty flu, he was over worked and on top of this he had also suffered from Epileptic Seizures throughout his youth. In his later years he kept pretty quiet which was in some part due to his religious regulations being a Jehovah Witness. But back in the 80's & 90's this man was on the top of every chart. He was actually the artist responsible for warning graphics being put on albums after then senator Al Gore caught his daughter jamming out to Prince's sexual tunes. This further added to his appeal of pushing boundaries which in turn made him more and more mainstream and he was given the job of making the soundtrack for the original Batman film....more9minPlay
FAQs about Before They Were Famous:How many episodes does Before They Were Famous have?The podcast currently has 2,754 episodes available.