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Joel Gustaf Berghult (born 8 April 1988)[1] known online as Roomie, is a Swedish Youtuber and singer songwriter and music producer.[2] He is best known for his YouTube channel RoomieOfficial, the content of which includes song covers, singing experiments, reacting to singing and comedy series; the channel has over 5 million subscribers and more than 525 million views in total.[3] His most viewed video "One Guy, 43 Voices (with music)" has over 77.5 million views.[4] He has attended and been a panelist at YouTube events (including Summer in the City and VidCon).[5][6][7] He was born in Gothenburg, Sweden but currently he lives in London, UK.[8] Berghult has collaborated with other YouTubers such as PewDiePie, Schmoyoho, Jacksfilms, Boyinaband, Andrew Huang, Rob Scallon, and Element Animation.

Early life [ edit ]

Berghult was born and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden.[8] He was born to father Bosse Berghult who is also a musician,[9] and who encouraged him in his musical endeavours growing up such as providing both instruments and music production software.[2]

Berghult graduated in 2014 from Musikmakarna where he studied Songwriting & Music Production.[10]

Career [ edit ]

Berghult's YouTube channel was created on 25 July 2010.[11] The first video uploaded was an original song titled "Falling in love", and followed this by releasing a mixture of original songs such as "Ugly", "DATING A DOUCHEBAG", and "Numb"; along with covers of Artists such as Maroon 5, OneRepublic, Imagine Dragons, and Taylor Swift. He also created songs with samples of PewDiePie's voice which gained attention.[11]

One Guy, 14 Voices" released in March 2014 was Berghult's first viral YouTube video which garnered wide attention,[12][13] he reprised this video idea producing the video "One Guy, 15 voices" in August 2015 which received widespread media attention,[14][15][16] and Berghult made an appearance on Good Morning America where he impersonated rock stars live.[17] The latest iteration of this series released February 2017 is "One Guy, 43 Voices (with music) - Roomie" Which has over 77.5 million views and is Berghult's most viewed video.[4][18]

On 31st March 2019, Berghult collaborated with PewDiePie and Boyinaband to create the song and music video "Congratulations".[19][20] The song was based on sarcastically congratulating T-Series for surpassing PewDiePie in subscribers while bringing up the corporation's past scandals with Berghult singing the main chorus and being credited for Music & Lyrics and for Beat modification & vocal production.[21][22][23] In April 2019 T-Series sought a court order to remove 'Congratulations' from YouTube, access to the video has now been blocked in India.[24]

In August 2019 Berghult began a new YouTube series in which he attempts to make perceived 'bad' songs into better songs, by Auto tuning poor vocals, giving the songs new beats and adding harmonies and extra vocals. He has done this with several well-known songs such as ‘Flossin’ by The Backpack Kid; 'Monster' by Gabbie Hanna; and 'Friday' by Rebecca Black.[25]

Discography [ edit ]

Albums [ edit ]

Roomie & Friends: Covers Vol. 1 (2014)

(2014) Short and Stupid (2016)

Singles [ edit ]

"Bed Intruder Song" (Rock Version) (2011)

"Fabulous" (feat. Pewdiepie) (2014)

"His Name is Pewdiepie" (feat. Pewdiepie) (2014)

"Numb" (2014)

"Long Distance Love" (2015)

"Brofist" (feat. Pewdiepie) (2016)

"Zelda" (2017)

"Lost It All" (feat. Custom Phase) (2017)

"Own You" (2018)

Collaborations [ edit ]

"Jamie All Over" by NateWantsToBattle (feat. Roomie) (2016)

"Circle of Death" (Pubg Song) by The Living Tombstone, Dan Bull, Roomie (2018)

"Pizza Love" by The Gregory Brothers (feat. Roomie) (2018)

"Congratulations" by PewDiePie (feat. Boyinaband and Roomie) (2019)

References [ edit ]

RoomieOfficial on YouTube

Joel Berghult on IMDb







