Website www.holasoygerman.tv Created by Germán Garmendia Height 1.83 m | Channel HolaSoyGerman Years active 2011–present Nationality Chilean Siblings Diego Garmendia | |
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Born Germán Alejandro Garmendia Aranis. 25 April 1990 (age 26) ( 1990-04-25 ) Tierra Amarilla, Chile Genre Comedy, Video blog, humor Subscribers 31.1 million (HolaSoyGerman.)17.8 million (JuegaGerman)(1 March 2017) Parents Cecilia del Carmen Aranis Mancilla, Germán Luis Garmendia Macías Similar El Rubius, PewDiePie, Dross Rotzank, Karol Sevilla, Markiplier Profiles | ||
Germán Alejandro Garmendia Aranis (born 25 April 1990), known by his YouTube channels HolaSoyGerman. and JuegaGerman, is a Chilean YouTuber, comedian, musician, singer, and writer. He has produced a variety of songs together with his band, all available on YouTube. His book titled "#Chupaelperro" came out at multiple stores of Latin America and Spain on 28 April 2016. His channels are currently the 2nd and 16th most subscribed on YouTube, having a combined total of over 48 million subscribers. He was the first YouTuber to obtain two Diamond Play Buttons (for achieving 10 million subscribers on his two channels). He also gave his voice to the Spanish version of Ice Age: Collision Course as Julian.
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Early life and YouTube career
Garmendia was born on 25 April, 1990 in Chile. At the age of three, his father died in an automobile accident on Christmas Day. Germán has an older brother named Diego from whom he lived separately during childhood until reuniting in Los Vilos. He was very interested in music from a young age, and when he was 13, he formed a band with his brother that was called "Zudex". Garmendia uploaded his first YouTube video in 2011 after being encouraged by his friends.
In 2013, he was accused of using fraudulent programs to gain subscribers. He created a video explaining that he didn't use such fraudulent programs.
As of February 2017, his YouTube channel HolaSoyGerman. has over 31 million subscribers, making it the second most subscribed channel on YouTube after PewDiePie, and the most subscribed in the Spanish language.
In August 2014 and 2015, he won the "Icon of the Year" prize from MTV Millennial Awards 2014. He made a brief appearance in YouTube Rewind 2014 and made a longer appearance in the 2015 and 2016 versions due to how much he had accomplished during that year.
Book
Garmendia's book is titled "#ChupaElPerro" (Spanish for "Lick the dog"). He describes it as a mix between a book and a magazine. The name comes from a recurring joke that appears in many of his videos, stemming from an attempt to improve a common vulgar phrase in Spanish. Garmendia had a book tour around some countries of Latin America and Spain.
Incident in Mexico
In April 2014, Garmendia was scheduled to appear at the Telmex Digital Village in Zócalo, Mexico City. The event experienced an unplanned excess of attendees, and many people waiting in line to see Garmendia fainted due to heat exposure and had to be evacuated. Eventually, the crowd became unruly, with attendees forcing their way past barriers and into the tented area, causing many injuries. Ten people were injured when a light element fell into the crowd. After security regained control of the situation, the crowd was dispersed and Garmendia's event was cancelled. He later expressed condolences to his fans for the incident.