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Joey Graceffa attending the It's On Us campaign
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Joseph Michael Graceffa May 16, 1991 Marlborough, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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Nationality | American | ||||||||
Residence | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | ||||||||
Occupation | YouTuber, actor, author, producer, songwriter | ||||||||
Website | http://joeygraceffa.com/ | ||||||||
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Channel | JoeyGraceffa | ||||||||
Years active | 2007–present | ||||||||
Genre | vlogging, gaming, how-to, DIY | ||||||||
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Associated acts | Shane Dawson, Miranda Sings, Tyler Oakley, Connor Franta, Trisha Paytas, Stacy Hinojosa | ||||||||
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Joseph Michael "Joey" Graceffa (/ɡrəˈsɛfə/; born May 16, 1991) is an American YouTube personality, actor, author, producer, and singer. He has two active YouTube channels, both of which are named after him. One of them is for vlogging and the other is used for video gaming content. They both have a combined total of more than one billion views. His other YouTube channel, which he no longer uses, called WinterSpringPro, has 54 million views (as of January 2017). He was a contestant on 22nd and 24th seasons of The Amazing Race and has appeared in short films (as web films) and short web television series on YouTube and its subscription-only service YouTube Red.
Graceffa was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the son of Debbie O'Connor and Joe Graceffa. He has two siblings, an older sister named Nicole and a younger half brother named Jett, through his mom and his stepfather, Bob. Jett has, according to Graceffa, been diagnosed with autism when he was very young. Graceffa's endured hardships with his mother when she resorted to alcoholism and drug abuse due to good changes in her life she wasn't used to starting around when Graceffa was twelve according to his book, In Real Life. He graduated from Marlborough High School in 2009. Graceffa enrolled in Fitchburg State College intending to major in film, but left after one year. Graceffa initially intended to enroll in Emerson College, a private, liberal arts university in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, but was rejected twice, so he decided to stay at Fitchberg.