Website www.latoyaforever.com Channel latoyaforever Genre ComedyVideo blog | Pseudonym LaToya Forever Years active 2010–present Spouse Adam Ali | |
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Subscribers 1,021,034 (LaToya Forever)600,765 (LaToya's Life)(July 9, 2016) Books Latoya's Life: Uncut Mishaps of a Youtube Star Parents Debbie Howard, Nigel Wilson Similar Nigel Wilson, La Toya Jackson, Winnie Harlow, Lilly Singh, GloZell Profiles | ||
LaToya Ali, better known under the name LaToya Forever, is a Canadian-born, Trinidadian YouTube personality and author, best known for her eponymous YouTube channel as well as her video blog channel "LaToya's Life". In 2012, she was the official Vibe TV host at the American Music Awards and in 2015 she participated in the Buffer Festival.
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Early life
LaToya Ali was born in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, daughter of professional baseball player Nigel Wilson and Debbie Howard, of Trinidadian descent. Ali has seven younger siblings. Around the time LaToya was 11-14 years old (middle school age) her parents moved to the United States to allow her mother to get a college education. While living in the United States Ali's family would often have to move from place to place, making it difficult to develop any strong friendships while she was growing up. Instead, she turned to creating videos and posting them online as an outlet for her feelings. She would later relocate to Toronto, Ontario.
Online career
Ali first started posting videos in 2009 and in 2010 she began her YouTube channel "LaToya Forever", posting comedy skits and jokes to entertain herself and others. One of her most well-known early videos was titled "Shit Caribbean Moms say", reflecting on her own mother growing up as well as other moths from Trinidad. While pregnant with her first child, Samia, she began a video blog, or VLog of her day creating the channel "LaToya's Life", with "reality show" type content about her and her life. In 2012, she was hired to be the Vibe TV host at the American Music Awards. In 2015, she introduced the "LaToya Forever App" to give her fans access to her video content.
YouTube made "LaToya Forever" their official YouTube Correspondence for the 2015 "YouTube FanFest Live" event that was held on May 2, 2015. She would later host an "Afrocentric dance competition" called "The Movement," organized by the Erindale Campus African Students Association, who invited LaToya Forever to host the one-night competition, held on May 16, 2015. She was one of the featured guests at the 7th annual VidCon conference in Anaheim, California. In August 2015, Ali and her team were one of three teams selected for the Canadian Film Centre and Canadian Broadcast Corporation's "Jumping Screens" Comedy workshop, a workshop intended to help the creators make the jump from online to television. The workshop ran from June through November. Ali was one of the featured creators of the 2015 Buffer Festival, held from October 13 to 15, 2015, in Toronto Canada.
Writing
Outside of her video work she has also written an e-book titled "How to become a YouTube Sensation" where she shared her steps to success. She has also written an autobiography titled "LaToya's Life: Uncut Mishaps of a YouTube" star, which will be published on November 8, 2016. In June 2016, she partnered with Gone Viral TV (GVTV) for a social media seminar.