Table of Biography
Boyinaband is a British Unclean and rap vocalist as well as a synthesizer player and MC who fronted the four-piece band “You and What Army”. Boyinaband is popular for his YouTube channel “Boyinaband” where he creates music tutorials, skits, and band videos for his more than 2.95M subscribers. Likewise, he has collaborated with popular animation storytime YouTubers.
Early Life and Education
Boyinaband was born in Telford, England, on August 24, 1987. He is 36 years old and is under the birth sign, Virgo. He holds British nationality. And his real and full name is David Paul Brown.
The name and information about David’s parents are not available at the moment. However, it is known that he has a sister and her name is Hannah.
Hannah is also a YouTuber. His sister can speak fluent Japanese. Other than this, no information about his family or any other members is available.
It seems as if David likes to keep his family and personal life private.
Regarding his educational background and qualifications, the name of the school and university he attended has not been available until now.
Considering his age, he must have graduated from both high school and university. Unless he is a dropout or decides to quit further studies.
Moreover, Brown studied computer game programming and computer game design.
Caption: Boyinaband along with her sister, Hannah (Source: Instagram)
Boyinaband – Social Media
Boyinaband is pretty active on all of his social accounts. He has 2.95 million subscribers on YouTube and 238K followers on Instagram.
Likewise, he has 226.4K followers on Twitter and 323.3K followers on Facebook.
Relationship Status
Boyinaband is possibly single at the moment. He is more focused on his career rather than being in any kind of romantic relationship.
Or maybe he wants to keep his personal and love life private. And doesn’t want the critics and his fans to know about it.
Even focusing on his past relationships, the name of his ex-lover, and any information regarding that topic is not available.
So we can assume that either he has never been in any kind of romantic relationship or has done a very good job in keeping it a secret from the public.
Career and Professional Life
Boyinaband launched his YouTube channel under the name “Boyinabandd” on November 14, 2007. His channel has altogether 311,267,801 views until now.
Most early videos on his channel were focused on his band “You and What Army” or were tutorials, educational, vlogs, reviews, and interviews with other musicians.
Then, from 2011 onwards, parodies and skits were more prominent on the channel, for example, “How to Play Dubstep Guitar” and “Appropriate Faces for 10 Genres of Music”.
On 2 February 2015, David published the music video for his song “Don’t Stay in School”, which went viral.
In the track, he criticizes the school systems for teaching topics he deems unnecessary, instead of teaching practical life skills or topics that interest students.
Likewise, the song has been subject to controversy for seeming to encourage students to drop out of school.
However, he has stated that it is merely meant to critique the school system, and the words “Don’t Stay in School” refer to the topics discussed in the song.
Despite drawing controversy, the song has also received praise from students, teachers, and parents as well.
The video was reacted to by parents on the Fine Brothers channel, with many sympathizing with his arguments. Over time, he released a series of follow-up videos to “Don’t Stay in School”.
Likewise, his final follow-up video, “You don’t legally have to go to school”, discusses various unconventional educational options: alternative schools, charter schools, “unschooling”, and homeschooling.
Moreover, in the video, David Brown also interviews a student from one of these progressive schools.
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In the year 2015, David published a song featuring fellow YouTubers Cryaotic and Minx focusing on LGBT issues and voicing his support for the community in collaboration with the UK-based LGBT charity somewhereto_.
Then, in the year 2017, he collaborated with iDubbbz to create a diss track against RiceGum titled “Asian Jake Paul” as part of iDubbbz’s Content Cop series.
On 31 March 2019, David Brown collaborated with PewDiePie and RoomieOfficial in an upbeat rap/synthpop/hip-hop music video titled “Congratulations”.
This music video was based on sarcastically congratulating T-Series for surpassing PewDiePie in subscribers, while also bringing up the corporation’s past scandals and criticizing the Caste system in India.
David’s work spans various genres including electronic, hip-hop, and heavy metal as a producer, vocalist, rapper, songwriter, DJ, and instrumentalist.
And, among other endeavors his former electronicore band You and What Army, had various successes playing Download Festival and Sonisphere Festival.
Moreover, the band was put on hiatus in the year 2014. Other video content includes vlogs, music tutorials, education, comedy skits, raps, and challenges.
YouTube and More…
In the year 2015, his YouTube channel started becoming less active due to personal issues with depression and a lack of motivation.
Then, on July 9, David made a video discussing why he hasn’t been uploading or tweeting for a while. He uploaded one other video unrelated to the subject but then took a year to upload it again.
And, on August 10, 2016, he uploaded the video “I’m not Dead.”, which was a song about his problems. He then stuck to his regular upload schedule after this until October 2017.
On April 21, 2018, David Brown posted his first video in nearly six months called “My New Look.”.
This semi-update semi-comedic video revealed that he had grown his facial hair out and dyed half of the goatee red to match up with his hair to create a new look.
Likewise, on May 3rd of the same year, he shaved and revealed why he hadn’t been uploading. And, this is the first video talking about his depression since 2016. And, Brown plans on uploading normally once again.
Some of the popular videos on his YouTube channel are Don’t Stay in School, Making the Song with TheOdd1sOut (Life is Fun – BTS), Making the Song About Jaiden’s Anorexia (Empty – BTS), and The Real Reason I Have Long hair.
All of these videos have had more than 10M views now. He is also active on other social media platforms and has thousands of followers on those platforms as well.
Caption: Boyinaband celebrating 1M subscribers on his Youtube channel (Source: Youtube)
Body Measurements
Boyinaband has a height of 5 feet 8 inches and his weight is 65 Kg. However, his other body measurements such as chest size, waist size, and hip size, are not available at the moment.
And those measurements are still under review. Moreover, he has long and silky black hair. He has highlighted the front part of his hair with red color.
Likewise, he has grey eyes. Moreover, the reason why his hair is so long is that he despised having haircuts whilst growing up due to his dislike of random strangers cutting his hair.
Caption: Boyinaband flaunting his long hair (Source: Instagram)
Boyinaband – Net Worth 2024
Talking about his earnings and income, he has a net worth of $353K. His main income source is his YouTube channel and his career as a singer and rapper.
Also, he has published 564 videos which all together add up to more than 288.1 million views.