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Daniela Andrade (born August 15, 1992), is a Hondurian-Canadian Youtuber, singer-songwriter and producer, who debuted on Youtube in 2008. She is best known for uploading song covers, music videos, challenge videos and vlogs. On her Youtube channel, she has 1.83+ million subscribers with 277+ million views. Andrade also has a strong social media following on sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Spotify.

Personal Life
Daniela Andrade was born in Montreal, Québec to Honduran immigrants. She has two older sisters and an older brother. Her parents immigrated to Montreal from Honduras in 1987, making Andrade the only child in her family to be born in Canada. After hearing her father play the guitar throughout her childhood, she asked him to teach her the three basic chords at the age of thirteen and she started playing guitar ever since.

Andrade was first inspired by Terra Naomi, a Youtube singer, to create videos. She was interested in the idea of recording oneself for an audience. After her dad got her a Fujifilm camera, she started to create more videos with her friends in an amateur manner until she started posting singing covers on Youtube.

Career
On October 24, 2008, Andrade uploaded her first video to Youtube, which was her cover of “Say It’s Possible” by Terra Naomi. Afterwards, she only posted original songs, which slowly turned into covers when she started to develop her audience more. Her cover of “Everything” by Michael Buble was her first Youtube video to go viral with hundreds of thousands of views.

In the summer of 2011, she entered a contest through Tricyclen-lo called “Who Inspires You?”. She had to make a video about who inspires her to win $10,000. Andrade spoke about how her father was an inspiration to help her get started with her music and won the contest through her followers on social media as well. In 2012, Andrade created a label with Jeff Kwok called Crooked Lid Records. She flew to San Diego and recorded her debut EP, “Things We’ve Said”. The collection of seven songs was recorded and produced by Jesse Barrera, who she met through Youtube and the EP was released in May of 2012.

She started to perform at local coffee shops and clubs around her neighbourhood in Edmonton, where she was living at the time. By 2013, she also won contests, including the Hot 107 Hot Factor and the Lite 95.7 Emerging Artist award. She started touring across Canada in 2014. She debuted her second EP in 2016 called “Shore”. This visual four-part EP led her to her first international tour across North America and Asia. In 2017, she went on her first European tour around Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Milan and London.

Andrade continues to produce original music with the recent release of her new EP called “Tamale” with more inspiration from her Honduran heritage. She still makes Youtube videos sporadically and “La Vie En Rose” is the most popular video on her channel with over 35 million views. Andrade is also continuously collaborating with artists, including Ryan Hemsworth, S. Carey of Bon Iver and Swim Good.

Artistry
Andrade is guided by many genres and influences, including contemporary R&B, soul and jazz. She often draws from her Latin background in her musical style and songwriting in Spanish, such as in her recent single "Ayayai". Her music also maintains non-Latin elements, including soul and modern electronica. Some of her artistic inspirations are Feist, Regina Spektor, Damien Rice and Etta James.