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DeStorm Power (pronounced day·storm) is an American YouTube personality. He is the 44th most subscribed user as well as the 8th most subscribed musician on YouTube.

DeStorm was born in Arlington, Virginia. After interning and ghostwriting at Atlantic Records, Universal, and various other record labels,[2] DeStorm set out to establish himself as a performer, using YouTube as a platform to share his singing, songwriting, and production skills with the online community.[3] Power's videos are typically comedic, and also often incorporate rapping and beatboxing.[4] Prior to his online success, Power was an accomplished triple jumper and Master personal trainer, and was notably invited to the Olympic Trials.[5]
[edit] Youtube Channels
[edit] DeStorm

DeStorm's YouTube channel, registered under the username DeStorm, has over 1,000,000 unique subscribers, and is used primarily for his musical endeavors. It is currently the 8th ranked music channel on YouTube.[6]"What's up World?"—DeStorm's catch phrase—can be heard at the start of every video. Power often composes and performs covers of well known songs or creates content for major brands such as Pepsi, GE, Yahoo and Nintendo. Power also creates original content based upon subscribers' challenges and suggestions, like name dropping various movie titles.[7] Power occasionally collaborates with other popular YouTube personalities and recording artists, such as Mystery Guitar Man, Freddie Wong, Ray William Johnson, Nice Peter and Kina Grannis.[8] Powers also competed in a commercial contest hosted by Heinz Ketchup and was a finalist. [1]
[edit] DeStormTV

DeStormTV, DeStorm's second YouTube channel is used primarily for blogging, motivational, and behind the scenes videos. As a former personal trainer and Olympic level triple jumper, Power also gives fitness tips to the 200,000+ subscribers of this channel. [9]
[edit] Notable Videos & Collaborations
Title Featuring Upload Date (YouTube)
" Refresh The World " DeStorm Power August 10, 2010

A video song created for the Pepsi Refresh The World Project, currently being aired on MTV, BET, and VHI. The instrumentation was made using solely the sounds created by Pepsi cans, boxes, etc.

" AMA's SONG " DeStorm Power October 3, 2010
A video song commissioned specially for the 2010 American Music Awards. In this video, DeStorm raps about the year's nominees.
" Get Crackin' with Wonderful Pistachios Commercial " DeStorm Power October 14, 2009
DeStorm's wining submission to the Wonderful Pistachios Get Crackin' contest
" Tag Your Green! " DeStorm Power October 4, 2010

A video song for the General Electric Tag Your Green project promoting environmental responsibility.

" Airplanes – BoB & Hayley Williams of Paramore (Boyce Avenue & DeStorm cover) " DeStorm Power, Boyce Avenue January 14, 2011

An acoustic cover of the song “Airplanes” by B.o.B with Boyce Avenue.

" Power Hour – Kanye West Parody " DeStorm Power, Freddie Wong August 18, 2010

A song and video parody of the song “Power” by Kanye West with Freddie Wong.

" Making BLING Sexy! " DeStorm Power, Vassy August 23, 2010

A song and video collaboration with the Australian R&B singer Vassy.

" Household Jam Session (MysteryGuitarMan and DeStorm) " DeStorm Power, Joe Penna November 24, 2009

A song and video collaboration with Joe Penna, also known as Mystery Guitar Man, using random household objects.

 

 

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