Sam and the band
Biographies, Information, Facts and Photos of Sam and the Band
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SAM TSUI
Age:26 Birthday: May 2, 1989 Samuel Story Tsui is a YouTube singing sensation. He graduated from Yale University majoring in Classical Greek in 2011, while at Yale he started a YouTube channel with his long time Friend Kurt Hugo Schneider kicks-tarting their long journey to YouTube stardom. Sam was also very active in his school's all male A Capella group " The Dukes Men Of Yale" Since then Sam ( and Kurt ) have been featured on many talk shows such as Ellen, Oprah, Bonnie Hunt and Katie Couric along with getting a segment on ABC News, Sam also hosted the Behind the Scenes series for Season 3 of the sing off and American Idol's Idol Insider for the 2014 season. In mid 2013 Sam and Kurt independently produced Sam's 14 track freshman album Make It Up. The album was shortly followed up his first tour going through the United States and Canada with Alex Goot, Against the Current and King the Kid, since then he has done two additional tours both across Asia. Sam has plans to continue doing shows across the world as well as releasing more original music and covers on both his channel TheSamTsui and with Kurt. |
KURT HUGO SCHNEIDER
Age: 26
Birthday: September 7, 1988
Kurt Hugo Schneider -also known as an ice cream enthusiast- is a very talented man who is a genius at playing instruments. He attended Yale, where he then started working with Sam Tsui and putting out videos on Youtube. Kurt plays a wide variety of instruments such as piano, acoustic and electric guitar, harp, drums, crockenspiel, recorder, and many more. He is also a singer/songwriter and happens to be a very good rapper even though he won't admit it. He directs and produces music videos with Max Schneider, Sam Tsui, Victoria Justice, Jason Derulo, Hunter Hayes, Jason Mraz, and many others who are very well known. Schneider has even written a song for Cody Simpson called "Standing In China". Kurt has also had commercials shown on television that he directed/produced such as his Coca-Cola commercials that featured Sam Tsui, Kina Grannis, Zendaya, and Max Schneider. His long anticipated 90 minute film College Musical which derived from his original web series is finally being released this September and it can be found on ITunes, Google Play, and Amazon.
Birthday: September 7, 1988
Kurt Hugo Schneider -also known as an ice cream enthusiast- is a very talented man who is a genius at playing instruments. He attended Yale, where he then started working with Sam Tsui and putting out videos on Youtube. Kurt plays a wide variety of instruments such as piano, acoustic and electric guitar, harp, drums, crockenspiel, recorder, and many more. He is also a singer/songwriter and happens to be a very good rapper even though he won't admit it. He directs and produces music videos with Max Schneider, Sam Tsui, Victoria Justice, Jason Derulo, Hunter Hayes, Jason Mraz, and many others who are very well known. Schneider has even written a song for Cody Simpson called "Standing In China". Kurt has also had commercials shown on television that he directed/produced such as his Coca-Cola commercials that featured Sam Tsui, Kina Grannis, Zendaya, and Max Schneider. His long anticipated 90 minute film College Musical which derived from his original web series is finally being released this September and it can be found on ITunes, Google Play, and Amazon.
Jason Pitts
Jason Pitts - pun enthusiast majoring in sarcasm - has worked with Sam and Kurt since 2012 (mainly as their guitarist). He plays the drums, piano, and ukulele as well as guitar. He is also a singer/songwriter and is releasing an album at the end of this year. Jason was known as a viral sensation in 2011 with his video called "Prom?" that quickly spread across the internet in such a short amount of time. He then was featured on television shows such as Good Morning America, the Today Show, and ABC World News. Pitts has been shown on the front pages of some of the most well known websites. You can see Jason with Sam and/or Kurt in videos like "We Can't Stop" by Miley Cyrus, ''Wake Me Up'' originally by Avicii, and "Closer" ft. Tegan and Sara.
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Joel Manduke
Joel Manduke recently started working with Sam and Kurt as Sam's drummer, friend and attractive sidekick, he is also refereed to as being bestfriends with Jason Pitts and the Joelson ship has taken the Samily by storm. ( pun intended ) Joel is a college student at UCLA and besides drumming he enjoys travel, golfing, making bad puns and arguing with Jason, Joel tagged along with Kurt, Sam and Jason on Sam's 2014 Asia tour. Joel will also be accompanying Sam and Kurt on their upcoming trip back to Indonesia to perform at Full Color Party in late September. You can see Joel in many of Sam and Kurt's videos such as the music video for Sam's original song "Next Best Thing" and Sam's covers of "Talk Dirty" and "Happy" he is also seen in Macy Kate and Austin Pecario's cover of "Still I Fly" from the Disney movie Planes.