17 Facts About Daniela Andrade

Lesly Daniela Andrade Rivera was born on 15 August 1992 and is a Honduran-Canadian singer and songwriter.

Daniela Andrade started posting videos on YouTube of her covering songs from Beyonce, Nirvana and Edith Piaf in March 2008.

Daniela Andrade currently has a total of 1.99 million subscribers and over 300 million views on YouTube.

Daniela Andrade's music has been featured in commercials and TV shows including Supergirl, Suits, and The Umbrella Academy.

Daniela Andrade won the Vista Prize in 2015 and was nominated for the Premios Juventud in 2016 under the category favorite hit-maker.

Daniela Andrade was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in a financially difficult household as the youngest of four siblings.

Daniela Andrade's father, Necthaly Andrade, was a former choir director and guitarist who immigrated from Honduras to Canada in 1987 and established a construction business in precast supply in 2003 in Edmonton, Alberta, which is where Andrade grew up in her childhood.

Nevertheless, many of Daniela Andrade's siblings sang, her father played guitar and so did she at age 13 being taught chords by her father, and she enjoyed singing growing up being inspired by her father.

Daniela Andrade joined the praise team at her church and she had her first choir solo at age 6.

Daniela Andrade was first exposed to YouTube while learning from it to improve her guitar playing.

Daniela Andrade started her YouTube channel in high school in October 2008 with a video covering "Say It's Possible" by YouTuber and musician Terra Naomi, as a way to calm herself before an audition the next day for a singing competition in Calgary, Alberta, which she ultimately did not win; nevertheless she continued to post videos to YouTube of her playing covers around her family home.

Daniela Andrade gained followers with songs like Coldplay's "The Scientist", and Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon", and in 2009, she increased the frequency of her posts and quickly grew in popularity.

Daniela Andrade used the money to record and release an EP of her own original songs, Things We've Said, in 2012 with producer and YouTuber Jesse Barrera in San Diego, California.

Daniela Andrade's low-key cover of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" went viral in 2014 and was featured in the second season of the Netflix show Umbrella Academy.

Daniela Andrade's acoustic cover of Edith Piaf's "La Vie en Rose" went viral.

Daniela Andrade moved to Toronto, Ontario in December 2014, but then moved back to Montreal in the summer of 2015.

Daniela Andrade intended to produce a music video for her single "Genesis" in Honduras, but due to ongoing civil unrest, she produced the video in one week in Mexico, where emotionally-moving experiences reminded her of her mother and connected her more deeply to her Latin identity.