Elise Ecklund is an American guitar and ukulele player who posts music videos
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Elise Ecklund is an American guitar and ukulele player who posts music videos
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Elise Ecklund was born on February 18, 1997 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. She later relocated to Oklahoma. She grew up with five siblings. Information regarding Ecklund’s parents is not available. However, her mother occasionally appears in her YouTube videos.
Talking about Ecklund’s education, she attended John Brown University after high school and studied marketing there. She later studied at Southern New Hampshire University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2017. During college, Elise Ecklund also worked at numerous positions, including as a customer service professional at JC Penney. Besides being a YouTuber, she also works as a marketing professional at Amazon at present.
Elise Ecklund joined YouTube on February 11, 2015. Her first video was ‘Youth - Troye Sivan - Easy Guitar Tutorial,’ in which she taught her audience the basic steps of learning to play the guitar. This was followed by an acoustic cover called 'House of Memories – Panic- At the Disco'. Following the success of these videos, she posted a number of other acoustic and ukulele covers.
On July 19, 2016, Ecklund posted a challenge-based video. This video, titled ‘Yoga Challenge w/ Anna Gibson,’ featured her and her friend Anna Gibson. The young beauty’s channel got a boost in June 2017 when she published her ‘4 basic chords, 40 songs on ukulele’ video. The video became a hit within a week. Currently, it has more than a million views (as of October 2018). Ecklund touched further heights of fame when she came up with her video titled ‘4 basic chords, 30 songs on ukulele’. Her journey of posting music videos continued and the young musician became extremely popular on YouTube over a period of time.
Today, her channel has over 700k subscribers and more than 50 million views. The channel’s two most popular videos, 'I wrote a song using only your Instagram comments' and 'I wrote a song using only hate comments,' are absolutely worth watching! The latter video went viral quickly when the renowned actor Will Smith shared it on his Instagram account.