Alex Boyé
Person · 6 cases · 2014–2015 · British-American singer, dancer, and actor
How Alex Boyé spread
Boyé moved from a European boy band to religious music, then reached YouTube audiences through collaborations and Africanized covers.
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1995
StartAudio
Boyé formed the European boy band Awesome and became its lead singer. fairlds.org
1996
First big pushAudio
Awesome won a Capital Radio vocal competition and subsequently signed a five-album contract with Universal Records. fairlds.org
2006
New audienceAudio
Boyé joined the Mormon Tabernacle Choir while seeking to build a Latter-day Saint audience. web.archive.org
2012
First big pushJan · YouTube
The Piano Guys featured Boyé in their YouTube cover of Coldplay's "Paradise," titled "Peponi." web.archive.org
2014
BreakoutYouTube
His Africanized "Let It Go" cover with One Voice Children's Choir went viral, pushing his combined YouTube views past 100 million. web.archive.org
2015
New audienceJun · TV
Boyé and Changing Lanes Experience performed "Shake It Off" on America's Got Talent and advanced to Judge Cuts. en.wikipedia.org
Gangnam Style dance
Kept it going · Jan '14
4.4B views
Adele: Hello
Carried it · Dec '15
47.5M streams
Frozen and “Let It Go”
Carried it · Feb '14
$1.27B box office
The Lion King (1994)
Kept it going · Jan '15
$979.2M on a $45M budget
Pharrell Williams: Happy
Carried it · Apr '14
273M views
Uptown Funk
Carried it · Feb '15
159M impressions