The Life of Alex Goot

         Alex is a one man band from Poughkeepsie, New York. Alex began messing around on the piano at age 5 when his parents bought a piano. He started to get serious about piano by the age of 12. Alex performed his first gig when he was only 15 years old. He began recording music in 2004 at the age of 16.  

       Alex soon gained quite a following after posting his songs on his MySpace website. In early 2010, Alex began posting videos of his covers of popular modern pop songs, and occasionally videos of his original songs . His popularity has continued to soar each time he posts a new video. Today, his videos have been watched over 30 million times, and is now considered one of the top cover artists on YouTube.

     Alex Goot is currently the 37th most subscribed user on YouTube, top 200 YouTube channel user and has over 50 music videos  both covers and originals

This video includes him and his colleagues as they perform Maroon 5 Hit song "One More Night" 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZHmNcb8Krc 

Youtube has been a huge reason why Alex Goot is successful. He has over 1 million subscribers, 30 million views on his video, and he is one of the top cover artist on YouTube. Not only does he do covers of big name artist like Lady Gaga and Maroon 5 (see video above), he also writes his own music. 

This is one of his original song written and perform by Alex Goot himself called "The Real You"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf3UzDSheO0&list=SP92B44799EAAD02C1&index=6

For more on Alex Goot listen to this Documentary 

https://soundcloud.com/justin-lee-100/alex-goot-mixdown