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Also known as Austin Harris Mahone

American singer-songwriter

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Austin Mahone is an American male musician from the United States. His musical genres include contemporary r&b, pop, and teen pop. He began his professional work period in 2010.

Mahone has been associated with various recorded works, with sources citing counts of 3, 5, or 298 references across different databases. On Last.fm, his music is tagged with pop, male vocalists, and american. He maintains an official website and has accumulated 9,262,082 social media followers.

Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
3

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1996-04-04
contemporary r&bpopteen pop

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
522,633
Total plays
11,012,150

Tags

popmale vocalistsamericanAustin Mahonemahomies

Austin Carter Mahone (born April 4, 1996) is an American singer and songwriter. Austin Mahone may have discovered music the old-fashioned way, but his rise to stardom has been undeniably cutting-edge. Begging his mom for a drum set at 6 years-old, he caught the proverbial "bug" after roaming around a local La Vernia, TX music store. Luckily, the drums ended up under the Christmas tree that year. Fast forward to 2010, Mahone started uploading covers of everyone from Drake and Justin Bieber to Ne-

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Quotes

  • I guess I was always looking beyond what was right in front of me. I wanted to listen and play music that wasn't the normal Texas thing. More than that, I wanted to see the world beyond my hometown.
  • When I was growing up, I never thought much about living in San Antonio, or whether or not I liked it there. It was just where I lived, and I liked where I lived. It was where my family, my friends, and the music store I loved were, and that was all I needed.
  • A few days before the talent show, I went to a pep rally at school that also included a talent show. I really wanted to sing in that talent show, too. I knew I could nail it. Then I thought about how some of the kids always teased me, and I wondered if they would make fun of me more. Maybe they would, but then I thought: Who cares? It felt amazing to realize that.
  • I was really starting to think of myself as a singer. People who watched my videos treated me like one. They weren't just telling me they liked my singing. They were also giving me tips about what I should sing and how I should use my voice, you know, trying to help me out. It was cool. I realized something was happening. Maybe I can take this further, I thought. So I really dialed in, knowing if I kept working hard at it, and practiced and trained, that I would keep getting better and better.
  • I hit play, the music started, and that's when my nerves got the worst, because it was like, There's no going back now. So I just went for it.
  • So even though everything wasn't perfect for me in La Vernia, I put all my focus into the things that were going well in my life- my singing, my YouTube channel, my family, AC and my other friends. Luckily, that's the great thing about singing: It makes me forget everything else while I'm doing it.

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Key facts

Born
Austin Harris Mahone , ( 1996-04-04 ) April 4, 1996 (age 30) , San Antonio , Texas , U.S.
Genres
Pop R&B dance-pop
Occupations
Singer songwriter
Instruments
Vocals guitar piano
Works
Austin Mahone discography
Years active
2010–present
Labels
Universal Music Japan BMG Mr. 305 Inc. AM Music Cash Money Republic Chase
Website
austinmahone .com

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Encyclopedic overview

Austin Harris Mahone (/məˈhoʊn/; born April 4, 1996) is an American singer. Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, he gained initial recognition performing covers of pop songs on YouTube. He was discovered by record producers Rocco Did It Again! and Mike Blumstein in 2012, and subsequently signed with their label, Chase Records in a joint venture with Republic Records in June of that year. His 2012 debut single, "Say Somethin'" and its follow-up, "Say You're Just a Friend" (featuring Flo Rida) both received gold certifications by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), while his 2013 single, "What About Love" did so and marked his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100. All three were included on his titularly-titled debut extended play (2013), which was released only in Japan. In September of that year, his recording contract entered a triple joint venture with Birdman's Cash Money Records, an imprint of Republic.

His 2014 single, "Mmm Yeah" (featuring Pitbull) received platinum certification by the RIAA and became his highest charting song on the Billboard Hot 100—at number 49. It served as lead single for his second extended play (EP) The Secret (2014), which peaked at number five on the Billboard 200. After the release of his 2015 single "Dirty Work", he parted ways with the labels in favor of Pitbull's Mr. 305 Inc. The song entered the Billboard Japan Hot 100 and received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ), leading his debut studio album, Dirty Work – The Album (2017) to be released exclusively in the country—where it entered the Oricon Albums Chart. Preceded by a number of follow-up mixtapes and EPs, his second album, A Lone Star Story (2023) marked a full departure from pop in favor of country music.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Austin Mahone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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