Charlie Puth

Charles Otto Puth Jr born December 2 1991 is an American singersongwriter His initial exposure came through the viral success of his song covers uploaded to YouTube Puth signed with the record label eleveneleven in 2011 after performing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show during which he contributed songwriting and production work for other artists Puth signed to Atlantic Records and Artist Partner Group to release his debut single Marvin Gaye featuring Meghan Trainor in 2015 Later that year he guest performed on Wiz Khalifas single See You Again which peaked atop the US Billboard Hot 100 for 12 nonconsecutive weeks received diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA and earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song nomination along with three nominations at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards including Song of the Year Marvin Gaye served as the lead single for Puths debut studio album Nine Track Mind 2016 which peaked within the top ten of both the Billboard 200 and UK Albums Chart despite critical failure Its single We Dont Talk Anymore featuring Selena Gomez peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 His second album Voicenotes 2018 was met with a critical incline and similar commercial success The album spawned the topfive single Attention and received a nomination for Best Engineered Album NonClassical at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards Puths third studio album Charlie 2022 likewise entered the top ten and was supported by the singles Light Switch and Left and Right both of which peaked within the top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100 Puth has done songwriting and production work with other artists throughout his career and in 2021 cowrote and produced the single Stay for Justin Bieber and the Kid Laroi becoming his first nonperforming production to peak the Billboard Hot 100 Charles Otto Puth Jr was born December 2 1991 in Rumson New Jersey to Debra a music teacher who also wrote commercials for HBO and Charles Otto Puth Sr a builder and real estate agent He has two younger siblings twins Stephen and Mikaela Their father is Catholic of Italian German and Hungarian descent and their mother is Jewish As a twoyearold Puths right eyebrow was permanently scarred in a nearly fatal dog bite incident His mother introduced him to classical music and began teaching him the piano at age four He started studying jazz at age 10 and participated in a summer youth jazz ensemble at Count Basie Theatres Cool School in Red Bank New Jersey at 12 Puth was once hired by The Count Basie Theatre to play in a Charlie Brown production In grade six he went door to door selling a Christmas album called Have a Very Charlie Christmas that he had recorded and produced making 600 in sales He attended the Holy Cross School Rumson and Forrestdale Middle School before graduating from the RumsonFair Haven Regional High School in 2010 During his seventh grade to senior years he attended Manhattan School of Music PreCollege as a jazz piano major and a classical studies minor Puth is a 2013 graduate of Berklee College of Music where he majored in music production and engineering Source Article Charlie Puth from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30