This Day, That Year – June 5

This day in history we feature Troye Sivan. An Australian singer-songwriter, actor and former YouTuber was born on this day in 1995.

Trivia – Troye Sivan

Sivan’s musical career started when he sang at the 2006, 2007 and 2008 Channel Seven Perth Telethon. Sivan made it to the finals of StarSearch 2007. His debut EP Dare to Dream was released in June 2007. In February 2010, Sivan opened “We Are the World 25 for Haiti (YouTube Edition)”, the collaborative music charity video produced by Lisa Lavie to help raise money for the victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. On 5 June 2013, Sivan was signed to EMI Australia, a Universal Music Australia label.

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In September 2012, Sivan began creating video blogs on the video sharing site YouTube, after having only sung on the site since 2007. At the time of posting his first vlog, Sivan had accumulated 27,000 subscribers in his five years since joining YouTube on 1 October 2007. A YouTube video Sivan made with fellow YouTuber Tyler Oakley, titled “The ‘Boyfriend’ Tag”, earned them a Teen Choice Award in the “Choice Web Collaboration” category. Sivan uploaded video blogs regularly and, as of 2021, has over 7.3 million subscribers and over 1.3 billion total views. After gaining popularity as a singer on YouTube and in Australian talent competitions, Sivan signed with EMI Australia in 2013 and released his third extended play, TRXYE (2014), which peaked at number five on the US Billboard 200. Its lead single, “Happy Little Pill”, reached number ten on Australian music charts. In 2015, he released his fourth extended play, Wild, followed by his debut studio album, Blue Neighbourhood. The album’s lead single, “Youth”, became Sivan’s first single to enter the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 23. His second studio album, Bloom (2018), reached number three in Australia and number four on the Billboard 200 chart. Its lead single, “My My My!”, became Sivan’s second number-one single on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. In 2020, his EP In a Dream was released. As an actor, Sivan portrayed the younger Wolverine in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and starred as the titular character in the Spud film trilogy. In 2017, he became the youngest recipient to receive a GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award. In 2018, he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song for “Revelation”, from the film Boy Erased, in which he also had a supporting acting role. In 2022, he starred in the movie Three Months.

Source – Wikipedia