Lily Singh
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26 September 1988 Scarborough, Ontario, Canada |
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| Residence | Los Angeles, California, United States | ||||||||||
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| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) | ||||||||||
| Website | www |
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| Also known as | iiSuperwomanii | ||||||||||
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| Years active | 2010–present | ||||||||||
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| Subscribers | 12 million | ||||||||||
| Total views | 2 billion | ||||||||||
| Network | Studio 71 | ||||||||||
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Lilly Singh (born 26 September 1988) is a Canadian YouTube personality, vlogger, comedian, author, and actress. She is better known by her YouTube username IISuperwomanII. Since beginning her channel in October 2010, her videos have received over 2 billion views, and her channel has accumulated over 12 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 ranked 1st on 2017 Forbes Top Influencers List in the entertainment category.
Singh has received an MTV Fandom Award, four 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. She reached 12 million YouTube subscribers in July 2017, and her channel is currently in the top 100 most subscribed on YouTube. As of 2017, she has over 6.8 million followers on Instagram. In March 2017, she released 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 as Sikh. She has an older sister named Tina. 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 December 2015, she moved to Los Angeles, where she currently resides, to further her career.
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