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Lilly Singh

Lilly Singh
Lilly Singh by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Singh at VidCon 2014
Personal information
Born Lilly Saini Singh
(1988-09-26) 26 September 1988 (age 28)
Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Residence Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation
  • YouTuber
  • Actress
  • Author
  • Motivational Speaker
  • Rapper
  • Vlogger
Website www.lillysingh.com
YouTube information
Pseudonym iiSuperwomanii
Channel IISuperwomanII
Years active 2010–present
Genre
Subscribers 11.1 million
(20 February 2017)
Total views 1.7 billion
(20 February 2017)
Network Studio 71
Subscriber and view counts updated as of 20 February 2017.

Lilly Singh (born 26 September 1988) is a Canadian YouTube personality, vlogger, comedian, and actress. She is better known by her YouTube username IISuperwomanII. Since beginning her channel in October 2010, her videos have received over 1.7 billion views, and her channel has accumulated over 11.1 million subscribers. In 2016, she was ranked 3rd on the Forbes list of the world's highest paid YouTube stars (behind Roman Atwood and PewDiePie), earning a reported $7.5 million in 2016. Singh has featured in the annual YouTube Rewind every year since 2014. She has received an MTV Fandom Award, three Streamy Awards, two Teen Choice Awards and a People's Choice Award to date in her career. In 2016, Singh released a red lipstick, in conjunction with Smashbox, called "BAWSE", and released her first feature film, titled A Trip to Unicorn Island. Lilly reached 11 million YouTube subscribers in January 2017, and her channel is currently in the top 100 most subscribed on YouTube. In March 2017, she will also release her first book, How to be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life.

Singh was born and raised in Scarborough, Toronto. Her parents, Malwinder and Sukhwinder Singh, are originally from Punjab, India, and she was raised in the Sikh tradition. She has an elder sister named Tina and a younger sister named Saide. As a child, Singh has said she was a tomboy. She attended Mary Shadd Public School during her elementary years and in 2006, she graduated from Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute. In 2010, she graduated from York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. Singh developed a strong connection with her Punjabi heritage during visits to India. She struggled with depression, and began making YouTube videos as a way of dealing with her feelings. As a young adult, she lived with her parents in Markham, Ontario and in 2015, she moved to Los Angeles, California, where she currently resides, to further her career.


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