| “ | Hi, I'm Dave from Boyinaband. | ” |
―Boyinaband's intro | ||
David Paul "Dave" Brown (born: August 24, 1987), better known online as Boyinaband, is an retired English content creator, rapper and musician best known for his vlogs and music-related content.
He found more exposure from collaborating with iDubbbzTV in the "Asian Jake Paul" song, a diss-track to YouTuber RiceGum in August 2017. He also collaborated with PewDiePie in the T-Series diss-track song "Congratulations", along with RoomieOfficial.
He has collaborated with popular animation storytime YouTubers Jaiden Animations and TheOdd1sOut on songs as well, named "Empty" and "Life is Fun" respectively.
About
Boyinaband often posts videos discussing subjects such as technology, music and his life. Aside from that, he also occasionally makes original songs, a lot of which are in collaboration with popular YouTubers such as Cryaotic, iDubbbzTV, PewDiePie, JaidenAnimations, and TheOdd1sOut. He is mostly known for his video "Don't Stay In School" which is a song addressing all the issues about what is taught in school. Another thing he is also known for his very long hair, which is brown with a streak of red.
Biography
He was born in Telford, England on August 24, 1987. As a child, he grew up in the United Arab Emirates, but eventually moved back to England as a teenager.
He launched his YouTube channel in 2007. With You and What Army, he began recording an EP titled Soundtrack to the Apocalypse in his home studio in 2009. At the start of his channel's existence, he solely focused his content around music, especially since he was a part of the band "You and What Army" from 2007 to 2014. After the band broke up, he started expanding his content style.
In 2015, his channel started becoming less active due to personal issues with depression and a lack of motivation. On July 9, he made a video discussing why he hasn't been uploading or tweeting for a while. He posted 1 other video unrelated to the subject, but then took a year to upload again. On August 10th of 2016, he uploaded the video "I'm not dead.", which was a song about his problems. He stuck to his regular upload schedule after this until October of 2017.
On April 21, 2018, he uploaded his first video in nearly six months called "My new look.". The semi-update semi-comedic video revealed that he had grown his facial hair out and dyed half of the goatee red to match up with his hair to create a new look.
On May 3rd of the same year, he shaved and revealed why he hasn't been uploading. This is the first video talking about his depression since 2016. He plans on uploading normally once again.
He collaborated with PewDiePie and RoomieOfficial on the T-Series diss track 'congratulations'. It has since been blocked in India, along with some of Pewdiepie's other T-Series diss tracks such as 'Bitch lasagna' due to legal reasons.
Since December 2019, Boyinaband has not posted a video to his YouTube account.
In a 2020 to 2021 YouTube community post during his hiatus, Boyinaband talked about his mental health issues and finding medication to help his issues.
Hair
He has very long hair, as shown in almost all of his videos. The reason why his hair is so long is due to the fact that he despised having haircuts whilst growing up due to his dislike of random strangers cutting his hair. More information about his hair is in this video.
Controversy
In August 2022, a now-deleted post was made on the Boyinaband subreddit by a group of Dave's ex-partners. In the open letter, many accusations were made against Dave, including hebephilia, grooming, sexual coercion, emotional, mental and physical abuse, as well as claiming that he was a drug abuser[1]. The post also included a link to an album of chat and message screenshots, allegedly coming from Dave's victims[2]. The allegations of hebephilia and grooming specifically, stemmed from the fact that when Dave was 23, he publicly stated (on a now-deleted blog), that he was dating a singer named Rachel who was 17 years old at the time, with some suggesting that the two had already been acquainted for several years by that point[3].
Much drama surrounded these allegations, with many of Dave's fans demanding to see solid proof or evidence of wrongdoing, as the screenshots provided in the original post were deemed non-substantive. A previous friend of Dave's, "Homeslice Aaron", would later comment on several threads on the subreddit, corroborating at least some of the allegations that were initially made[4][5].
To date, Boyinaband has not responded to the accusations.
Trivia
- He lived in Dubai as a child.
- He has stated that, due to having blond hair, he got lots of attention for it, as it was unusual for someone to have very blond hair in Dubai.
- An example of this was in his video about his hair length where he mentions that he was in a swimming pool four women came over and started patting him on the head.
- He has stated that, due to having blond hair, he got lots of attention for it, as it was unusual for someone to have very blond hair in Dubai.
- He studied computer games programming and computer games design.
- Dave had a forum.
- He collaborated with Feint and Veela and made a song called Time Bomb. It was released via Monstercat on April 18, 2012, and was included as the first track on Monstercat 007 - Solace.
- He has collaborated with a variety of YouTubers such as iDubbbz, Jaiden Animations, TheOdd1sOut, RoomieOfficial, Andrew Huang, Dan Bull, TheRPGMinx, Maxmoefoe, PewDiePie, Jacknjellify, Corpse Husband and many others.
- His sister Hannah Brown, who speaks fluent Japanese also had a YouTube channel WhiteEnglishGirl.
- He met and filmed a video with Chester Bennington, his childhood inspiration, shortly before his passing on July 20, 2017 and the cancelling of the rest of the Linkin Park tour.
- He made songs with Jaiden Animations (Empty), TheOdd1sOut (Life Is Fun) and PewDiePie (Congratulations). However, Jaiden has unlisted her song from all streaming services following a controversy aimed towards him.
- In April 2024, about 18 months after the allegations, a new song credited to Boyinaband called "Dancing with You Forever" with Party in Backyard was uploaded to Spotify and YouTube, although it is no longer available. Whether or not the song was official is unknown as nothing has been said about it by either artist, especially since Dave has not uploaded to his own channel since 2019, and Party In Backyard is notorious for his prolonged hiatuses.
References
- ↑ Web Archive: Dave from boyinaband – over a decade of abuse underneath an almost perfect public persona
- ↑ Imgur Screenshot Album
- ↑ Dance Pop Tutorial Day 5: Processing Pop Vocals [7 Day Song]", 50 seconds into the video, Dave mentions that he wakes up next to his Vocalist named Rachel.
- ↑ Reddit Comment armahillo 1
- ↑ Reddit Comment armahillo 2
