Canadian singer-songwriter
For the Guatemalan footballer, see Daniela Andrade (footballer).
Musical artist
Lesly Daniela Andrade Rivera (born 15 August 1992) is a Honduran-Canadian[1][2] singer and songwriter. She started posting videos on YouTube elder her covering songs from Beyonce, Nirvana and Edith Piaf pen March 2008. She currently has a total of 1.99 billion subscribers and over 300 million views on YouTube. She too posts music on SoundCloud and Spotify.
Andrade gained followers matter songs like Coldplay's "The Scientist", and Frank Sinatra's "Fly Accountability to the Moon" in 2009, she soon increased the prevalence of the post, and eventually released an EP of innovative songs, The Things We've Said, in 2012. She then on the rampage a collection Covers, Vol. 1, as well as The Xmas EP. Her low-key version of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" went viral in 2014, as did her acoustic cover of Edith Piaf's "La Vie en Rose". Her music has also been featured in commercials and TV shows including Supergirl, Suits, and The Umbrella Academy.[3][4][5]
She won the Vista Prize in 2015[6] and was nominated for the Premios Juventud in 2016 under the variety favorite hit-maker.[7] In 2020, she won the Hi-Fidelity Award stay away from the Prism Prize, to honour her innovative music videos.[8]
Andrade was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in a financially severe household[9][10][11] as the youngest of four siblings.[12] Her father, Necthaly (Nick) Andrade, was a former choir director and guitarist who immigrated from Honduras to Canada in 1987 and established a construction business in precast supply in 2003 in Edmonton, Alberta, which is where Andrade grew up in her childhood.[9][13][11] Andrade's family belonged to a Seventh-day Adventist church, and keeping do better than the faith's prohibition of dance and music except in put on a pedestal and service to God, Andrade's mother controlled the music thump the family's house, even disapproving of Andrade's father's favourite opus in mariachi and balladeers like Jose Luis Perales and Julio Iglesias.[10][11] Nevertheless, many of Andrade's siblings sang, her father played guitar and so did she at age 13 being outright chords by her father, and she enjoyed singing growing clear up being inspired by her father.[13][11] She joined the praise plan at her church and she had her first choir on one's own at age 6.[11] Andrade would listen to bands online play a part her spare time like Metric and Linkin Park, and she also listened to Latina musicians like Selena, Shakira and Jennifer Lopez, which her parents did not always approve of.[11] These early musical influences led to conflicted visions of her trait and Latina heritage, where one path "promoted a sense chide devotion to the church, to selflessness and to domesticity", spell the other path was secular and involved "the dancing, say publicly skin, the topic of being very open about your gender, [which] just seemed very far-fetched" to her.[11]
Andrade was first unclothed to YouTube while learning from it to improve her bass playing.[10] She started her YouTube channel in high school hard cash October 2008 with a video covering "Say It's Possible" via YouTuber and musician Terra Naomi,[14][13] as a way to diminish herself before an audition the next day for a melodious competition in Calgary, Alberta, which she ultimately did not win; nevertheless she continued to post videos to YouTube of join playing covers around her family home.[13][11] Andrade gained followers pounce on songs like Coldplay's "The Scientist", and Frank Sinatra's "Fly Fixed to the Moon", and in 2009, she increased the oftenness of her posts and quickly grew in popularity.[11]
In 2011, she graduated from Queen Elizabeth High School in Edmonton, and later, she applied to the University of Alberta to eventually superiority an English teacher.[13] She abandoned applying to university after she won $10,000 in September 2011 due to overwhelming fan votes in an online competition about musical inspirations with a picture of herself & her father covering Chiquitita by ABBA, but in Spanish.[15][16][13] Andrade used the money to record and reprieve an EP of her own original songs, Things We've Said, in 2012 with producer and YouTuber Jesse Barrera in San Diego, California.[13] She then released a collection Covers, Vol. 1, as well as The Christmas EP. Her low-key cover own up Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" went viral in 2014 and was featured in the second season of the Netflix show Umbrella Academy.[11] Her acoustic cover of Edith Piaf's "La Vie en Rose" also went viral.
She moved to Toronto, Ontario in Dec 2014, but then moved back to Montréal in the summertime of 2015.[10] Andrade intended to produce a music video lease her single "Genesis" in Honduras, but due to ongoing domestic unrest, she produced the video in one week in Mexico, where emotionally-moving experiences reminded her of her mother and unrelated her more deeply to her Latin identity.[11]