In life it is not very common to see people coming from a humble background become famous and successful, however, these things do happen when people believe in their dreams and work to make them a reality. After all, as Winston Churchill has said, “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm”. There are many names in the YouTube community who have proved this true and today have achieved milestones that many wish to reach. Among these YouTubers is one individual named Awanish Singh who has shown through his talents that there is more than meets the eye.
Awanish Singh is a famous YouTuber from the Ghazipur district in Varanasi. Born on 13th November 1997 to a middle-class couple named Manishkumar Singh and Ajita Singh, Awanish, Awanish has overcome several struggles to reach where he is today. Though he is a BA LLB graduate, he always loved acting and had dreams to go to an acting school. However, with his middle-class family background, he couldn’t pursue it. Still, he never gave up on his passion for acting and when he was studying in law school, in the 1st year he participated in the drama plays carried out by the drama society. Seeing his passion and talent, many suggested that he should go to Mumbai to become an actor. However, when he let them know about his family background, starting a YouTube channel came out as popular advice.
After having a thought or so about the advice given by his well-wishers, Awanish started his YouTube channel in November 2016 but didn’t start posting any content. It was at the end of January 2017 that he took it seriously and started posting content on the channel. In the beginning, there were hardly 800-900 subscribers on his channel but as people started to like his content the number grew daily. In his family, only his mother knew about his YouTube venture as he knew that if his channel grew the rest of the family members will naturally come to know about it. Most of his early YouTube videos were based on UP slang and there were received well by the audience.
In the following year, Awanish had gained around 900k to 1million subscribers. This made him realize that it was the need of the hour to bring variations in his content as people would get bored by watching the same type of content again and again. So, he started working on short films and released his first short film called ‘The Life Recall’ which was based on the stories of people who get addicted to drugs and why do they do so. The short film was released at a time when no other renowned YouTuber had stepped into the genre and was appreciated by the audience. Besides, Awanish had already stepped into the long form of content with his 12-15 mins videos. Awanish was the first youngest Indian Youtuber who completed his 1 Million in the entertainment genre. Today, he has over 2+ million subscribers on his YouTube channel, 1+ million followers on Facebook, and 150k+ followers on Instagram.
Apart from YouTube, Awanish also wanted to do something in the Rap scene as he wrote short songs and poems since he was a child. So, he had an idea to promote rap by collaborating with lyricists to transform his stories into songs and putting them on his YouTube channel in his way. But after having met a few underground rappers, he came to know that they could not do justice to his stories. So, he started studying how to work with beats and stuff for over six months and started to compose rap and write songs on his own. Today, he has even made his first rap album and it is set to release by the end of 2021. He is the first mainstream YouTuber who has turned into a rapper.
Though he is very successful today, Awanish is a very humble guy who loves to spend time with his family members in Varanasi whenever he can as he stays far away from them in Delhi. He likes traveling on his bike and cherishing moments with his pet dog Rolex. He is a true animal lover and does whatever he can to help the ones in need. Due to his humble nature yet talented mind, Awanish is truly a gem of a person.
