Troye Sivan
Troye Sivan is an Australian and South African singer-songwriter, actor, composer, and YouTuber born on June 5, 1995, in Johannesburg.
Sivan holds citizenship in both Australia and South Africa. He was educated at Carmel School in Perth, and his work has spanned multiple creative fields simultaneously, encompassing music, film acting, and online content creation. His use of English across his output has been consistent throughout his public career.
As a musician, Sivan works across a range of genres that includes pop music, electropop, synth-pop, dream pop, and indie pop. His recording work has been recognized with an ARIA Music Award and an APRA Music Award in 2017, both of which acknowledge achievement within the Australian music industry. Alongside his music career, he has maintained a presence as a film actor, contributing to screen projects in addition to his work as a performer and composer.
Sivan has also received recognition from organizations outside the music industry specifically. He received the GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award as well as a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Music Artist, both presented by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. He additionally received Teen Choice Awards recognition during his career. The blend of pop, synth-driven, and dream-oriented sounds that characterizes his recorded work remains a consistent thread across his output as a singer-songwriter and composer.
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I write really visually. In my head, I'm constantly picturing things as I'm writing, so for me, videos are such an expressive part of my job.
Ever since I was a little kid, I got bored, so I learned to sing, and I started singing lessons. And then anytime I was bored, I would start writing and start messing around on my computer, making beats. Then I got bored and started making YouTube videos; that changed my life in a big way.
A lot of being a good voice is knowing when I have a place to speak and when it's appropriate. And to speak from the heart when I do.
It's really empowering when, as an artist, you can visualize something and then have the final product turn out the way you wanted it to.
I'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have to hide anything.
I know who I am, and I know what my ambitions are. If one kid sees me on TV or sees me in a movie and relates, then I'm done. That's perfectly fine. That's enough for me.
I super strongly identify with marginalized communities. I'm not at all religious, but I feel super, super Jewish. I can't even describe the feeling, but it actually feels really similar to being gay, the kind of kinship that you feel with the LGBTQ people. That same sense of community is there with Judaism.
All my friends were doing just dumb stuff that kids do, like making out with people at parties and starting to date... I didn't know any gay people growing up or any queer people growing up, and so I just really felt alone and kind of lost, and I just wasn't experiencing life.