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Rajiv Dhall
Born (1992-02-26) February 26, 1992 (age 32)
Canton, Michigan, United States
GenresRock/Pop, pop, acoustic
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter, musician, producer
Instrument(s)Vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, saxophone
Years active2011–present
Musical artist

Rajiv Dhall (born February 26, 1992 in Canton, Michigan, US) is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and part-time actor. In December 2010, he started uploading videos to his youtube channel "TwentyForSeven" which now has over 630,000 subscribers and over 60,000,000 views.

Bio

Dhall is of Indian descent, his father is Indian and his mother is caucasian. While he was in high school, he formed the emo-pop outfit "TwentyForSeven" (consisting of Dhall, (vocals/guitar), Matt Pastor (bass/keys/vocals), Blake Hayes (guitar/vocals), and Corey DeLuca (drums)) and spent several years fronting the band with some success.

Career

His band appeared on E's, Opening Act competition in 2012 and as a surprise, they got a chance to be the opening act for Gym Class Heroes.

He later started uploading solo cover songs to YouTube which eventually gave him a large online following. In 2015, he released his version of the One Direction song "Just Can't Let Her Go," which entered the Top 200 of the iTunes songs chart.

After his success on youtube, his friend, Andrew Bazzi introduced him to Vine, a short-form video sharing service where users can share six-second-long looping video clips. He was nominated for "Best Vine Musician" in the Seventh Annual Shorty Awards and losing out to Shawn Mendes. He was also nominated for the 2015 MTV Woodie Awards

In 2016, he was nominated for the 2016 iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards in the "Fan Fave Vine Musician" category and he won.

His vine currently has 1.9m followers as well as over 540million loops.

References

  1. TwentyForSeven About
  2. PPcorn (May 13, 2016). "Free Music Downloads: Pop Singles". PPcorn. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  3. "Opening Act Recap: TwentyForSeven Opens for Gym Class Heroes on Opening Act". E! News. July 17, 2012. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  4. "Rajiv Dhall | Biography & History | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  5. "Vine Musician in Social Media – Shorty Awards". shortyawards.com. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  6. Hernandez, Brian Anthony (March 16, 2015). "MTV launches social category to honor indie artists for SXSW's Woodie Awards". Mashable. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  7. "Fifth Harmony, Drake big winners at MMVAs". Toronto Sun. Retrieved June 29, 2016. Dhall

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