How a little boy grew into a big and bright star
Troy Sivan (Troy Sivan Mellet) is an Australian pop singer, actor, popular video blogger, songwriter, model, philanthropist.
Biography:
Troy was born on June 5 in 1995 in South Africa, Johannesburg and lived there for two years, after which his family decided to emigrate to Australia, due to the growth of crime in Africa.
Sivan grew up in a large family. He has two brothers: Steele and Tide, as well as sister Sage.
His mother, Laurell, is a housewife who converted to Judaism, and his father, Sean, is a realtor.
Troy studied at the orthodox modernist school Carmel, after which he switched to home schooling. On this I graduated.
Career and creativity:
Troy began his career quite early - at 11 years old. As a young man, he performed at Channel Seven Perth in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The first album was released two years after the debut - at 13 years old. There were only 5 songs on the disc and it was not tied to any label.
At the age of 12, Sivan created a YouTube channel on which he posted videos from his performances, covers of songs by other artists, and also talked about all the joys and sorrows that happened to him. A few years later, he began to upload more videos that were better mounted than the first clips of Mellet. And five years ago, he completely re-qualified as a blogger, filming videos on various topics: from challenges to collaborations with other well-known representatives of YouTube, such as Tyler Oakley and Zoella.
Troy’s popularity on video hosting was gradually growing, but this did not prevent the artist from developing in other directions. In 2007, Sivan Mellet made his debut on the stage as Oliver Twist in the same production. And just a year later, the boy got the role of James Howlett in the film "People X: the beginning. Wolverine." Casting agents liked Troy’s videos and from there began his journey into a big movie.
Nevertheless, Troy came to real fame after he wrote the song "The Fault In Our Stars", inspired by John Green's "Blame the Stars" and published it on his channel. It is noteworthy that Sivan composed the text and music on his own. After that, an agent from the record company EMI Australia wrote to him with a job offer, to which the blogger agreed. And after Time magazine included the blogger in the world list of the most influential teenagers.
But not only Troy became famous thanks to the "Stars", the author of the work, John Green, himself found fame among young fans of Sivan.
The performer himself with great love and respect applies to both the novel and the author, and all the income received from the sale of the song was sent to charity for the Princess Margaret Children's Hospital in Perth.
On August 15, 2014, the first official TRXYE mini-album was released on the Universal label, advertising the single “Happy Little Pill”, a year later the world heard his next EP “Wild” with three video clips and five singles.
Both EPs were preparation, a transitional feature of Troy as a musician.
And on December 4, 2015, Sivan released his debut long play "Blue Neigbourhood", with 5 promotional singles: "Wild", "Youth", "Talk Me Down", Wild (Remix) ", " Heaven ".
Also, Troy performed at the Billboard Music Awards 2016 and MTV Video Music Awards 2016, and then went on a tour of the Blue Neighborhood Tour.
The first album was well received by critics, scored 80 points out of 100 on Metacritic, ranked 53th on the Billboard 200, and won two ARIA Music Awards in 2016.
Troy’s second studio album, “Bloom, ” was released on August 31, 2018. Five singles were released in his support: "My My My!", "The Good Side", Bloom ", " Dance to This "together with the popular American singer Ariana Grande, " Animal ". Sivan himself called his album" sex ".
And again, critics warmly received the record, did not skimp on praise, and on Metacritic the album's score was 86 out of 100.
The album hit the Billboard 200, firmly occupying line 4, with sales of over 70, 000 in its first week. In the homeland of the artist in Australia, "Bloom" took 3rd place.
Now Troy is on tour on The Bloom tour.
