Charles Otto Puth Jr. (born December 2, 1991) is an American singer-songwriter. His initial exposure came through the viral success of his song covers uploaded to YouTube. Puth signed with the record label eleveneleven in 2011 after performing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, during which he contributed songwriting and production work for other artists.

Puth signed to Atlantic Records and Artist Partner Group to release his debut single, "Marvin Gaye" (featuring Meghan Trainor) in 2015. Later that year, he guest performed on Wiz Khalifa's single "See You Again", which peaked atop the US Billboard Hot 100 for 12 non-consecutive weeks, received diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song nomination, along with three nominations at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year.

"Marvin Gaye" served as the lead single for Puth's debut studio album, Nine Track Mind (2016), which peaked within the top ten of both the Billboard 200 and UK Albums Chart despite critical failure. Its single, "We Don't Talk Anymore" (featuring Selena Gomez), peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100. His second album, Voicenotes (2018), was met with a critical incline and similar commercial success. The album spawned the top-five single "Attention", and received a nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards. Puth's third studio album, Charlie (2022), likewise entered the top ten and was supported by the singles "Light Switch" and "Left and Right", both of which peaked within the top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100.

Puth has done songwriting and production work with other artists throughout his career, and in 2021 co-wrote and produced the single "Stay" for Justin Bieber and the Kid Laroi, becoming his first non-performing production to peak the Billboard Hot 100.

Charles Otto Puth Jr. was born December 2, 1991, in Rumson, New Jersey, to Debra, a music teacher who also wrote commercials for HBO, and Charles Otto Puth Sr., a builder and real estate agent. He has two younger siblings, twins Stephen and Mikaela. Their father is Catholic of Italian, German and Hungarian descent and their mother is Jewish.

As a two-year-old, Puth's right eyebrow was permanently scarred in a nearly fatal dog bite incident. His mother introduced him to classical music and began teaching him the piano at age four. He started studying jazz at age 10 and participated in a summer youth jazz ensemble at Count Basie Theatre's Cool School in Red Bank, New Jersey, at 12. Puth was once hired by The Count Basie Theatre to play in a Charlie Brown production. In grade six, he went door to door selling a Christmas album called Have a Very Charlie Christmas that he had recorded and produced, making $600 in sales.

He attended the Holy Cross School, Rumson, and Forrestdale Middle School, before graduating from the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School in 2010. During his seventh grade to senior years, he attended Manhattan School of Music Pre-College as a jazz piano major and a classical studies minor. Puth is a 2013 graduate of Berklee College of Music, where he majored in music production and engineering. ...

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Charlie Puth, est un chanteur, musicien, compositeur et producteur américain né le 2 décembre 1991 à Rumson.

Il se fait d'abord connaître sur YouTube puis étend son succès à l'international en écrivant et chantant sur la chanson See You Again de Wiz Khalifa, pour le film Fast and Furious 7. La chanson atteint la 1re place des charts dans 26 pays. Le premier single de Charlie Puth, Marvin Gaye, en featuring avec Meghan Trainor, atteint la première place en Nouvelle-Zélande, Irlande, et au Royaume-Uni, ainsi que le top 25 aux États-Unis.

Le single Attention, sorti en avril 2017, annonce son second album Voicenotes sorti le 11 mai 2018.

Charlie Puth est le fils de Charles et Debra Puth. Son père est d'origine allemande et sa mère est juive ashkénaze. Il a un frère, Stephen, et une sœur, Mikaela tous les deux jumeaux.

Dès son plus jeune âge, son père lui fait découvrir les artistes R&B (Barry White, The Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye), tandis que sa mère, professeur de piano, l'initie à la musique classique; elle lui donne ses premières leçons alors qu'il n'a que quatre ans. Il commence à étudier le jazz à l'âge de dix ans. Plus tard étudiant, il passe ses samedis à la Manhattan School of Music de Harlem. «Je pensais que je deviendrais pianiste de jazz, mais j'ai toujours été attiré par la pop de mes parents, et j'ai toujours cherché à en incorporer des éléments dans mon jazz», déclare-t-il. Il sort diplômé de son école régionale Rumson-Fair Haven en 2010. En 2013, il réussit son diplôme dans l'école Berklee College of Music, où il se spécialise dans la production de musique et l'ingénierie.

Charlie lance sa propre chaîne YouTube en septembre 2009, en postant des reprises acoustiques telles que Someone Like You d'Adèle ou encore Chandelier de Sia, ainsi que ses propres chansons. En 2011, il remporte un concours de vidéo en ligne parrainé par Perez Hilton.

En octobre 2011, Puth et Emily Luther sont invités à l'émission The Ellen Show, où Ellen DeGeneres annonce qu'ils ont signé avec sa maison de production, Eleveneleven, après avoir entendu leur reprise de Someone Like You. Ils chantent en outre la chanson au cours de l'émission. Le 25 janvier 2012, ils reviennent dans l'émission The Ellen Show, et chantent la chanson Need You Now de Lady Antebellum, ainsi qu'une chanson écrite par Puth lui-même, et co-écrite par Robert Gillies, intitulée Break Again.

Charlie et Emily chantent lors d'un événement soutenant la cause du DKMS Delete Blood Cancer, le plus grand centre de donation de moelle osseuse, en octobre 2012.

Charlie Puth quitte ensuite le label Eleveneleven pour rejoindre Atlantic Records. Il met en ligne deux albums indépendants, The Otto Tunes (2010) et Ego (2013), mais les chansons sont retirées d’iTunes après que Charlie Puth a rejoint son nouveau label. ...

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