Based on the popular YouTube Channel 'Before They Were Famous' with over 3 Million YouTube Subscribers & nearly 1 Billion views. This is the audio version of those recordings documenting the rise to fame of both traditional stars but mainly internet stars. Artists in rap, comedy, instagram models & YouTubers. This channel profiles who they are, where they came from and how they reached the top of the entertainment industry. Thanks for tuning in.
Tems | Before They Were Famous | Rising Star of Afrobeats
Before becoming a part of the next wave of Afrobeat hitmakers, the artist known as Tems was born Temilade Openiyi on June 11th, 1995 in Lagos, Nigeria. With her father being British Nigerian, Tems and her family moved to London when she was still just a baby. Still, they’d return to Nigeria some four years later where her parents got divorced shortly thereafter. From that point forward, Tems was raised alongside her brother, Tunji, by their mother in the neighborhood in a tiny one-bedroom apartment. On Sunday everyone would attend the same local church and everyone in their community always seemed to know everyone else. With Lagos being such a big city and Tems having a quiet demeanor, she often felt alone in the midst of the sprawling capital and so she began writing poetry as a means to deal with her complicated emotions
5 Apr 2025TRANSCRIPT
Skillibeng | Before They Were Famous | Hottest Jamaican Dancehall Artist
Despite most of us having to spend 2020 under lock-and-key, Jamaican dancehall artist Skillibeng spent the majority of last year spreading his name all around the world thanks to some great tracks. Without a doubt, the last year has provided Skillibeng with a string of breakthrough moments, including the release of his single “Brik Pan Brik”, jumping on a remix of Pop Smoke’s “Dior”, and dropping his debut mixtape “The Prodigy” which featured an appearance from his mentor, Popcaan. Today, Skillibeng is arguably more popular than his former idol and he knows he needs to continue working hard to keep it that way. And my man ain’t kidding – that “Prodigy” mixtape I just mentioned, well, it features over 30 tracks because Skillibeng understands that you need to make hay while the sun shines -- a lesson he learned after nearly losing his life in an automobile accident a few years ago.
21 Feb 2023
Cris Cawley | Before They Were Famous | Game Changing Publisher
BEFORE CRIS CAWLEY would forge an impressive career for herself as the mastermind behind Game Changer Publishing. BEFORE CRIS CAWLEY would extend her brand by offering her clients a suite of professional programs designed to help them become their very best. BEFORE CRIS CAWLEY would have nearly 1K Subscribers on YouTube and 108K followers on Instagram at the time of this recording. One sure fire way to make an impact on the world is to write a best-selling book. Unfortunately, the process of getting that book published can be a dauting experience for darn near anyone, especially if you don’t happen to have the necessary connections in the industry. But that’s where entrepreneur Cris Cawley comes in. Over the past two decades, she’s devoted the bulk of her time to starting her own company known as Game Changer Publishing and along the way she’s helped a whole host of people accomplish the dream of publishing a successful selling book in 90 days or less. Not only that, but she’s also an award-winning coach and consultant who offers her clients guaranteed ways to succeed in growing their brands. But sometimes it can be hard to believe the hype when you don’t know anything about the person promising to change your life around for the better. So, today, we’re going to introduce you to Cris’s story and give you a taste of how she accomplished her remarkable achievements on our newest episode of Before They Were Famous!
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Tems | Before They Were Famous | Rising Star of Afrobeats
Published 5 Apr 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] In fact, you can say that things they just kind of fell into place from that point forward. Now more and more people, they began reaching out to her, sharing her music nationwide, and asking her to perform at live venues. With her audience developing much faster than she expected, Will Tems would grace her burgeoning fanbase with a few new tracks, the biggest of which was the single Tri -Me, a song that currently is sitting at over 13 million views on YouTube at the time of this recording. By September of 2020, Will Tems, she was ready to unleash her debut EP titled For Broken Ears. Now this was a project in which she wrestled for relief from toxic relationships, also some depression. […]
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