Alex Day is tagged as: geek, pretty cool, 10s, singer-songwriter, british /user/nerimon|In 2005, an unknown 16-year-old from Essex named Alex Day sold his deck of Yu-Gi-Oh! playing cards and used the money to buy his first electric guitar. The following year, he opened a YouTube channel and began broadcasting to a global audience. It’s now six years later and that guitar is bandaged in sellotape and covered with nicks and dents – and Alex, now 22, has released two full-length albums and two EPs on the independent label DFTBA Records, selling over ten thousand copies of his music physically and digitally. Alex has attracted over thirty million views to his YouTube page ‘nerimon’, gaining over two hundred and forty thousand individual subscribers who are updated every time he puts out something new. “Holding On”, the debut single from his first album “Parrot Stories”, gained over 250,000 views in its first week online, as well as earning a feature on the worldwide homepage of YouTube. From his EP “117% Complete”, Alex released a video for “Pokémon What Happened To You”, which is his most successful video to date with 1.1 million views worldwide. The three songs on the video-game-inspired EP sold 5,000 copies in its first month on iTunes. Alex has harnessed his online fanbase as a force for good; in September 2009, he emb... Read More About Alex Day Biography... Send Alex Day ringtones to your cell |
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