.Youtube sensation Bryan Odell, who is known by his online alias "BrianStars", is 25 years old as of 2016.
Four years ago, Bryan was a 21 year old dreamer and college dropout from Nebraska who lived with his supporting parents before moving to New York to do some soul searching.
Born on May 22, 1990 in Japan, Bryan Odell is someone who went through a cultural shock period in the United States of America despite being the son of an American parent.
More precisely, Bryan moved to the states from Japan with his American parents at the age of 8. School-kid Bryan was devastated when he experienced more candid American culture in contrast to collective and conservative Japanese culture. If you may, kid Bryan was not impressed by his new American friends who made him feel like a clown because of his unusual curly blonde hair and unawareness of American way of live. Interestingly, he was praised for his unique looks in Japan by his friends and people he knew.
Later, he went on to study at the University of Nebraska after graduating from the Lincoln High school. At this period of time, he was not a crazily popular figure in YouTube but he had discovered his niche. Importantly, he had immense determination and passion to be a great YouTuber.
If you are not aware, Bryan created his YouTube Channel primarily to contribute to the rock and metal music scene. He felt that rock and alternative rock band deserved similar media attention and recognitions that other genres like pop are receiving.
Now fast forwarding to 2016, he has staggering 750, 000 followers and 130,000,000 plus views on Youtube. Impressively, his notable work credentials include interviewing various famous metal and rock acts such as Asking Alexandria, Pierce the Veil, Tonight Alive, Sleeping With Sirens, Black Veil Brides, Blood on the Dance Floor, The Reasy Set, Blesthefall, escape the Fate, Of Mice & Men, Korn, Creed, Memphis my Fire, Cannibal Corpse, Slipknot, Dying Fetus, Hellyeah, White Chapel, All Shall Perish, In Flames, and Triyium, and also stars such as Rob Zombie, Cody Simpson, Keri Hilson, Mitchel Musso, and some American Idol winners. Moreover, he is also known for Brainnews, which is a music related shows dedicated to metal and rock.
Nonetheless, he is also known for his second viral YouTube Channel called BryanStars2, where he posts music videos of reputed bands and musicians. Furtheremore, his third popular YouTube Channel is popular for his singeing prowess. In the third Youtube channel entitled BryanStarsSings, he shares his cover songs and beautiful voice to his viewers. Moreover, Bryan is also one of the seven popular members of the famous YouTube channel called My Digital Escape. Lastly, Bryan has also made name for himself as an YouTube actor. His now and then posts plot/situation/live interaction based fun videos in collaboration with fellow YouTube Johnnie Gulibert and other members from MDE.
If you may, Bryan went through a life changing event in 2011. The event was YouTube's first Next Up Contest in collaboration with Google. Amazingly, Bryan was one of the 25 winners who won $35,000 prize money, a free trip to New York City and loads of Youtube training sessions. This is how Bryan made his unconventional journey from a nobody to a someone who made his dream come true.Today he is one of the high profile video bloggers/partners of YouTube.
Now moving on to his physique, Bryan is a tall man. However, his exact height has not been revealed yet. Furthermore, he is a slender man possessing a fit shapely body. Nevertheless, he currently possesses a straighten-up shoulder length side-swept hairstyle. Moreover, he is known for his distinct dress up sense. He generally wears a blue Aerostale shirt with Jeans in his videos. Personality wise, he is generally referred to by the words such as fun loving and quirky.
Talking about his relationship status, it is generally speculated that he is dating someone secretly. However, he hasn't yet verified the notion. Furthermore, he is also assumed to be dating his on-screen girlfriend, who is a love interest of his YouTube character. Likewise, we cannot verify the rumor either. Nevertheless, we don't know whether he is a gay or not. Simply, we have to assume that he is a single guy enjoying his life at the moment.
Bryan Odell or commonly known as BryanStars is a well-known Musician and Music Interviewer. Along with this, he is also popular for his YouTube videos in the YouTuber community. Odell’s YouTube channel has more than 700000 subscribers and over 140 million video viewers. He has interviewed acts such as Asking Alexandria, Tonight Alive, Black Veil Brides and many more. He has launched an album Follow Your Dreams. After getting huge success on YouTube with hi channel BryanStars, he opened another one named BryanStars 2 for Music Video Publications. Later he opened another channel naming it BryanStarsSings were he uploads his own cover song videos. Thus, Bryan can be considered amongst the topmost personalities on YouTube and the Music Industry.
Bryan dropped out of the University of Nebraska at the age of 20 to fornicate on his YouTube channel ‘BryanStars’. He had to create this because the music industry didn’t pay much attention to the rock and metal scene that he created. He got only 50 USD per day at the beginning of his channel when he had very rare subscribers and viewers. However, he started getting fame over a period of time when he started interviewing popular music bands like Slipknot and Korn. He won 35000USD in 2011 at the YouTube next Up! Contest in New York City. He now earns 5000-6000 USD for every person that subscribes to his channel. His popular music interviews include Mitchel Musso, winners of American Idol, Keri Hilson, Of Mice & Men, Rob Zombie, Cody Simpson and others. He has launched Shut Up and Kiss Me, a single in his recent album Follow Your Dreams.
Bryan has won a multi-day workshop with professional online bloggers. Bryan considers music his passion and that does not only mean that he likes just music but also everything associated with it. He respects his profession and music along with the interviewees. He had been a part of the Never Shout Never incident where Christofer Drew Ingle, the lead guitarist of the band had called Bryan’s show a joke and had disrespected Bryan’s questions. Bryan had cried and the interview was called off. This had made Bryan cry and he apologized to the public on camera for his actions even though he was a popular hit. However, Christofer was later arrested for the possession of marijuana and stated that he was on acid on the interview. This shows Bryan’s dedication to the music industry and this is what makes him special.
Bryan was born in Sendai, Japan. After spending eight years of his childhood in Japan he shifted to the United States of America. He attended Lincoln East High school from where he graduated in 2008. He then went to the University of Nebraska. He is often associated with fellow YouTuber Johnny Guilbert. He is believed to be close with Jordan Sweeto. His career as a YouTube blogger has been written in famous newspapers like New York Times, Artisan News and USA Today. He also considers himself as a YouTube actor because he uploads fun videos with Johnnie Guilbert. His fellow YouTubers describe him as funny, loving, emotional and quirky. Currently, he lives in Michigan, US. He likes his tattoos and also to get his body pierced.
Odell had arranged Music Tours where famous bands like Catching your Clouds, Her Bright Skies, Snow White’s Poison Bite, Late Nite Reading, Rocky loves Emily and others played. Bryan had been a part of the Contest put together by Pinyata where Youtubers were challenged to generate followers and raise awareness about current issues. He was one of the winners where he donated $5000 to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Birth Date: | 22 May, 1990 |
Age: | 29 yrs |
Occupations: | YouTuber |
Citizenship: | United States of America |
Birth Place: | Sendai |
Education: | University of Nebraska system |
Gender: | Male |
Description: | American writer |