David Choi: Future of Pop?

Son of a Muse · 06-08-2009, 01:49 PM

David Choi has more subscribers on YouTube than Miley Cyrus

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It's a late May weekday afternoon, and the sun is beginning to bake the asphalt and concrete in Garden Grove.

David Choi is hanging out with his parents in their modest music shop, simply called Grace Music. A variety of violins hang from the walls, and numerous Autoharps are also on display.

At first glance, you wouldn't view Choi as the future of pop music. He's a soft-spoken Korean American in brown shorts and a striped polo shirt, 23 years old. He lives at home with his folks. And he's a little shorter than average, at 5 feet 3 inches.

But Choi is indeed the future. He has become a huge sensation on YouTube, with more than 3.8 million channel views and more than 117,800 subscribers. He's No. 19 on the list of most subscribed YouTube musicians, ahead of Miley Cyrus, My Chemical Romance, Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson. (He's about 44,500 subscribers ahead of that other Orange County-raised YouTube sensation, Kina Grannis, who won a "Crash the Super Bowl" contest last year with a video that was viewed by 97 million people.)

Choi has dedicated followings on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, iTunes and his own Web page, www.davidchoimusic.com. He has already worked in the professional music world, with a two-year stint as a songwriter and producer at Warner Chappell Music.

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David Choi - Won't Even Start - Official Music Video - Wong Fu Productions

gahtadreem · 06-08-2009, 03:04 PM

Wow! Pretty impressive stuff! Very catchy tune and good lyrics. I did hear a lot of artifacts in the vocals which sounds like they may have overused the pitch correction so I hope he's as good live as on the recording. At any rate, the kid has a future.

Lijemtu · 06-08-2009, 03:29 PM

Good tune

Mike Siegel · 06-08-2009, 04:43 PM

I'm not positive, but I believe that this young man posted a couple songs a few years back at JPF... tho I'm sure he's not the only talented Korean American in Orange County... we had Eric Kim post a wonderful song here a couple years ago, too- 'The Man I don't Want to Be' but he was from Atlanta.

I love to hear these internet success stories...

mike

Steve Soucy · 06-08-2009, 05:40 PM

With phenomenal numbers like this guy is generating, it doesn't matter if he's great live. He's selling product. This is the wave of the future right here. I love his songs, and I totally love his marketing. You guys watch, soon YouTube play counts will be more important than Billboard charts. Yeehaw!

Steve

dkraut · 06-08-2009, 08:07 PM

I met this guy at the Taxi Road Rally 3 years ago. I said hello to him because I recognized him from having won a bunch of contests that I had entered (and had not won). Seemed nice enough, although wouldn't call him incredibly charismatic. Really like the song Jo posted.

Lijemtu · 06-08-2009, 08:08 PM

I still believe that Coca Cola is the future of pop

06-08-2009, 03:04 PM	#2
gahtadreem Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Apollo Beach, FL Posts: 1,920	Wow! Pretty impressive stuff! Very catchy tune and good lyrics. I did hear a lot of artifacts in the vocals which sounds like they may have overused the pitch correction so I hope he's as good live as on the recording. At any rate, the kid has a future. __________________ "The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I'm left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can't quite remember." -- George Carlin

06-08-2009, 04:43 PM	#4
Mike Siegel Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Guam Posts: 3,577	I'm not positive, but I believe that this young man posted a couple songs a few years back at JPF... tho I'm sure he's not the only talented Korean American in Orange County... we had Eric Kim post a wonderful song here a couple years ago, too- 'The Man I don't Want to Be' but he was from Atlanta. I love to hear these internet success stories... mike __________________ http://www.soundclick.com/mikesiegel http://www.myspace.com/mikesiegelmusic

06-08-2009, 05:40 PM	#5
Steve Soucy Gold Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Vancouver Posts: 2,016	With phenomenal numbers like this guy is generating, it doesn't matter if he's great live. He's selling product. This is the wave of the future right here. I love his songs, and I totally love his marketing. You guys watch, soon YouTube play counts will be more important than Billboard charts. Yeehaw! Steve __________________ the Sue and Steve Show and the Wealthy Songwriter songs

06-08-2009, 08:07 PM	#6
dkraut Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: New York City Posts: 535	I met this guy at the Taxi Road Rally 3 years ago. I said hello to him because I recognized him from having won a bunch of contests that I had entered (and had not won). Seemed nice enough, although wouldn't call him incredibly charismatic. Really like the song Jo posted. __________________ David Kraut ____________________ www.davidkraut.com www.myspace.com/dkraut

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06-08-2009, 03:29 PM	#3
Lijemtu Platinum Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 10,862	Good tune

06-08-2009, 08:08 PM	#7
Lijemtu Platinum Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 10,862	I still believe that Coca Cola is the future of pop