Rajiv Dhall (born in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and part-time actor. He is half-Indian, half-Caucasian by ancestry. On December 18, 2010, he started uploading videos to his YouTube channel "TwentyForSeven" which now has over 1,000,000 subscribers and over 120 million views.[1]

Contents 1 Biography 2 Career 3 Awards and nominations 4 References 5 External links Biography

While Dhall was in high school, he and his friends formed the emo-pop outfit TwentyForSeven (consisting of Dhall, (vocals/guitar), Matt Pastor (bass/keys/vocals), Blake Hayes (guitar/vocals), Tony Bastianelli (Synth/Programming) and Corey DeLuca (drums)[2]) and spent several years fronting the band with some success.

Career

His band appeared on E's, Opening Act competition in 2012 and as a surprise, they got a chance to be the opening act for Gym Class Heroes.[3]

He later started uploading solo cover songs to YouTube which eventually gave him a large online following. In 2015, he released his version of the One Direction song "Just Can't Let Her Go", which entered the Top 200 of the iTunes songs chart.[4]

After his success on YouTube, his friend Andrew Bazzi introduced him to Vine,[5] a short-form video sharing service where users can share six-second-long looping video clips. He was nominated for "Best Vine Musician" in the Seventh Annual Shorty Awards, losing out to Shawn Mendes.[6] He was also nominated for the 2015 MTV Woodie Awards.[7]

In 2016, he was nominated for the 2016 iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards in the "Fan Fave Vine Musician" category and he won.[8]

Awards and nominations Year Ceremony Award Nominated Result 2015 7th Annual Shorty Awards[9] Vine Musician Rajiv Dhall Nominated 2016 iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards[8] Fan Fave Vine Musician Rajiv Dhall Won