David Choi

David Choi (born March 22, 1986) is an American musician, YouTuber, and a member of parody K-pop group BgA based in Los Angeles.

He has worked with companies such as Kellogg's, Starburst, the American Cancer Society, General Electric, Samsung, J. C. Penney, and Asian online fashion and beauty retailer YesStyle.

Choi was born in Anaheim, California, on March 22, 1986.

He is of Korean descent and comes from a musical family: His parents, Ray and Jane Choi, own a music store named "Grace Store," and his father plays the autoharp.

With an artistic mother and musical father, Choi was surrounded by music growing up and does not think he would have pursued music today without these influences.

At a young age, Choi was required to play the piano and violin, an experience that he did not enjoy.

In fact, Choi would get in trouble with his parents for not practicing.

He does not remember much about practicing his violin; however, he does recall wanting to smash it several times.

The Internet star says that his hate for practicing made him hate everything about the violin and piano to the point where he even began to hate music itself.

Even though it was not his favorite thing to do, Choi does admit that it was nice when he got to leave class twice a week to attend his orchestra class.

Choi says that class was easier for him than it was for some of the other kids because he had already covered some of the material through his private lessons.

The unlikely musician thus became the concertmaster of his school orchestra.

He would play classical and jazz music, and never being exposed a pop song until sixth grade, when he heard Smash Mouth's "All Star".

Soon after, he discovered "All the Small Things" by blink-182 and attempted to play the song on guitar.

Choi began to listen to more and more pop songs and fell in love with the Backstreet Boys, Boyz II Men, and Japanese pop.

In junior high Choi would stay up late listening to the radio, recording the songs and began to make his own mix tapes.

Choi then began to write his own songs and his first instrumental piece was a song titled "Lost Memory", written on the piano.

Even after discovering pop music Choi stayed in the school orchestra.

Pressured by his parents, Choi was forced to audition for the Gifted And Talented Education (GATE) orchestra.

Choi rehearsed with this orchestra every Tuesday.

Choi eventually stopped taking violin lessons in high school and commenced jazz piano lessons in ninth grade.

It is at this time that Choi began composing music, and won his first accolade after submitting an instrumental pop song entitled "I'm Really Happy When" for a contest.

Choi's original compositions were recorded digitally with the use of a program called Acid Pro.

Choi taught himself how to use the program within several days of downloading it, and he learned a few songwriting tips from a friend.

In 2005, Choi won the grand prize in David Bowie's Mashup contest, where Bowie chose the grand prize winner.

He appeared in USA Weekend Magazine alongside Usher, after he received the grand prize for the magazine's John Lennon Songwriting Contest for teens.

These achievements marked the start of Choi's musical career: He was signed to Warner Chappell Music, where he was initially placed as a staff songwriter and producer.

His humorous song "YouTube, A Love Song" which helped launched David's singing career was featured on the homepage of YouTube in 2006 and has received over 2.8 million views.

The music videos for his singles "Won't Even Start" and "That Girl", which are posted on both his and directors' Wong Fu Productions' YouTube channels, have received a total of over 13 million views.

He also posts non-music vlogs on his second channel.

David often appears in online videos with fellow YouTube personalities, like Ryan Higa and Wong Fu Productions, who often use Choi's music in their videos.

He has a sister named Esther Choi.

David's humorous "YouTube (A Love Song)", was uploaded on December 30, 2006, and brought him "overnight" fame.

Choi followed the success of "YouTube (A Love Song)" with other humorous and heartfelt songs, such as "By My Side" and "I Think I Like You": "My Company" is considered a "half-humorous, half-love" song.

Unbeknownst to him, his YouTube love song was posted on the homepage of YouTube.

Choi released his debut album, Only You, in October 2008.

His second album, By My Side, was released on May 19, 2010, and his third album, Forever and Ever was released on October 25, 2011.

As of September 14, 2021, Choi's YouTube Channel has 949,000 subscribers, 111 million total video views, and more than 13 million channel views.

As of November 2011, he was YouTube's 15th-most-subscribed musician and 62nd-most-subscribed user overall.

Choi previously worked as a songwriter and producer at Warner/Chappell Music, which signed him on after his participation in an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) workshop.