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Flula Borg (born 28 March 1982) is a German techno DJ, record producer, singer, songwriter, and hype man who is better known as DJ Flula or simply Flula (often stylized as f|u|a). He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California, in the United States.

Germany
Flula began his career performing as a Schuhplattler dancer in and around Erlangen, his hometown, located in northern Bavaria, Germany. Being an only child, he entertained himself by learning to beatbox and exploring sounds in his world. He shifted his attention from dance to music in the late 1990s, touring southern Germany as a techno and hip hop DJ. His style of incorporating real sounds into his music garnered him a cult following, but he also achieved a few mainstream hits, including "Kuhchen", which included real cow sounds recorded in both Germany and the United States, and "Drive", an ode to the joys of a fast car on an open road.

Growing popularity
Flula's recognition in America began in 2006 with his first appearance on Current TV, in a short documentary called "Take Me Home James". The show profiled a personalized cab service; Flula, who appeared to be inebriated, was the customer who was filmed. The piece was one of Current TV's all-time most popular segments and Flula later made several more appearances on the channel as a result. In 2007 Flula joined a Los Angeles film crew reporting on the Texas Redneck Games near Athens, Texas and became the first non-American to participate and medal in the games. He earned a bronze medal in the Mattress Chunk.

Flula had a popular weekly show on Stickam from 2008 until the website's closure in early 2013. A viewer poll selected Flula as a correspondent, performer, and host for Stickam's 2008 South by Southwest (SXSW) coverage in Austin, Texas. Later that year, he entered and won the Scion Hypeman Competition, becoming the contest's only European champion to date. Judges Skillz, DJ Clark Kent, and Lyricist Lounge co-founder Ant Marshall voted unanimously in favor of Flula, who defeated Rashad "RaRa" Jenkins and SAMiAM in the finals.

Flula has made a number of appearances on television and in films, including regular segments on AT&T U-Verse's Buzz, hosted by friend David Giuntoli, and a recurring role in Auction Hunters on Spike. He had roles in two short films in 2008, one of which was written and directed by Matthew Del Negro of The Sopranos, who also acted in the film. Flula also starred in the pilot episode for a proposed series called Blow Me in 2012 and was featured on Last Call with Carson Daly in 2013.

From 2009 to the present, Flula has been employed off and on as a correspondent and presenter for a number of popular culture outlets including Screen Junkies and Metacafe In addition to working as a presenter on What's Trending, he had his own show on that channel called "WTF with Flula". Since 2010 he has served as official host and MC for the Campus MovieFest, College Battle of the Bands, and Campus DJ tours presented by AT&T, Chegg, SESAC, Gibson/Epiphone, and other sponsors. He returned to SXSW in 2013, hosting and performing at a "Flula Fluncheon" sponsored by POP-AUT and Sonos, and he was the official spokesperson and correspondent for Gibson guitars at Musikmesse 2013.

Flula performs live regularly at The Viper Room, The Derby, The Lyric Theatre, and other venues around Los Angeles. Since early 2013 he has been the official spokesperson for the City of Allen, Texas, where he makes humorous videos highlighting positive things in the city, most notably its public recreation program. He is also an occasional spokesperson for the Dallas Mavericks.

YouTube
Flula launched a YouTube channel in February 2007 where he posts a wide variety of content, including:
 * original music
 * interviews and collaborations with various musicians, actors, and other celebrities, including Susan Sarandon, Ed Helms, Jason Segel, Ben Kingsley, Anna Faris, Vince Vaughn, Steve Carell, Will Farrell, Paul Rudd, Larry King, Sir Mix-a-Lot, RZA, Dirk Nowitzki, David Guintoli, and many more
 * "man on the street" interviews
 * original poems, haiku, stories, and animation
 * comedic sketches
 * mild rants about why various people and things are "great" or "not great"
 * "I Have 10 Minutes; Tell Me What to Do", a series in which Flula allows Twitter followers to give him instructions for a 10-minute interval and he posts the video results
 * covers of popular songs, often performed as "AutoTunes", which are recorded in a single audio take in his parked car or other unorthodox places, such as a rowboat, a Zamboni, or an automated car wash
 * "flogs", or "Flula-vlogs", in which he discusses his confusion regarding English-language idioms such as "Humpday", "spilling the beans", and "sorry not sorry"

The most popular of the "flogs", titled "Jennifer is a Party Pooper (7:12am)", was posted in late 2011 and had a major role in propelling Flula to new heights of popularity in 2012. As of November 2014 it has over 5.8 million views.

Besides posting on his own channel, Flula often collaborates with other artists and YouTubers such as Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig, Mamrie Hart, the artist XVALA, Turquoise Jeep, Taryn Southern, and many others. He received additional publicity in 2009 for his appearance on the Ownage Pranks channel in which he pretended to have Tourette syndrome while prank calling a McDonalds restaurant. He spewed a stream of nonsensical profanity including the notable line, "I want to Chick Mc-N-Fuck it your Chicken McNugget". As of late 2013, the prank remains in the top 10% of Ownage Pranks videos with over 2.6 million views. Since early 2013 Flula has presented a series on the Machinima channel entitled "What the Flula?" in which he recaps TV shows ridiculously poorly for comedic effect. To date he has done a series of recaps for Game of Thrones and one for Breaking Bad. His growing popularity on YouTube was demonstrated most clearly when he was chosen to perform on the main stage at VidCon 2013, an event hosting over 12,000 participants. As of December 2013, Flula's YouTube channel has over 210,000 subscribers and over 32 million total views.

Albums

 * Europe
 * Drive EP
 * Old Time Peoples
 * US
 * Roach Bug EP