When was austin mahone discovered

A new version of Last. Austin Carter Mahone born April 4, is an American singer and songwriter. Austin Mahone may have discovered music the old-fashioned way, but his rise to stardom has been undeniably cutting-edge.

Begging his mom for a drum set at 6 years-old, he caught the proverbial "bug" after roaming around a local La Vernia, TX music store. Luckily, the drums ended up under the Christmas tree that year. Fast forward to , Mahone started uploading covers of everyone from Drake and Justin Bieber to Ne-Yo and Bruno Mars to his YouTube page, and a massive following began to organically amass. The subscriber, comment, and follower numbers snowballed as Mahone interacted with his audience directly.

I thought there would be ten fans. A thousand showed up, and the cops had to shut it down. That was the moment when everything changed. Since then, Mahone has come a long way from La Vernia—a town outside of San Antonio as he puts it, "with no Movie Theater or bowling alley". By , he'd garnered 1. She's an amazing girl, and we have the best time together. My friends, they're all cool, they're all clean.

I don't want to be that guy who is having problems and going to rehab. I am focused on the music. I felt a lot of pressure on me and was like, OK, I definitely have to go hard now. I gotta be the man of the house and make the money and provide for my family. News U. An eponymous EP featuring those singles showed up in the summer of and, nearly a year later, a second EP called The Secret appeared.

It included guests like Juicy J , Pitbull , and 2 Chainz. The following year, Mahone finally issued his debut album, Dirty Work, exclusively in Japan. Another Japan exclusive, the Oxygen EP, landed in Early the next year, he released the Charlie Puth -penned single "Why Don't We," one of a batch of songs that carried Mahone into the s. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully.

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