Hoodie Allen

According to sources, he is romantically associated with fashion model Sadie Newman.

His YouTube channel ‘wearehoodie’ where he joined on November 6, 2008 has become quite popular with around 658 K subscribers and over 196 million views. He has also garnered decent popularity on different social media platforms. These include his Twitter account ‘hoodieallen’ where he joined in November 2008 and has already amassed around 1.26 million followers and his Instagram account ‘hoodieallen’ which has also accumulated over 465 K followers.

He was born on August 19, 1988, in Long Island, New York, US. He grew up in a Jewish household in Plainview, with his brother Daniel.

He commenced on lyrics writing as a child and also performed raps for his friends at house parties. He studied at the Long Island School for the Gifted in South Huntington and thereafter at Plainview – Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School.

He then attended the University of Pennsylvania. He pledged the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity while he attended the university and also remained a defensive back for the university’s sprint football team.

Originally the duo of Markowitz with childhood friend Obey City (Samuel Obey) was called ‘Hoodie Allen’ where he contributed to vocals and Obey City on production. Bagels & Beats EP and Making Waves mixtape marks the first two releases of the duo that earned them a MTVU's Best Music on Campus Award nomination in 2009. After Obey City stopped producing for the duo in 2010, Markowitz adopted Hoodie Allen as his stage name and continued to make music with RJ Ferguson.

Following his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in marketing and finance in 2010, Markowitz took a job at Google in the capacity of an AdWords associate in the company’s Standardized AdWords Reseller Training (START) program. He worked full day at Google and after returning home at 6 pm devoted his time in writing songs, replying to fan emails, and scheduling concerts until 2 am or 3 am. He later left the Google job to concentrate fully on his music career.

He heavily sampled the song ‘I Am Not a Robot’ by Welsh recording artist Marina and the Diamonds in his debut single ‘You Are Not A Robot’ in June 2010. It clinched the top position on ‘Hype Machine’.

He then completed the mixtape ‘Pep Rally’ by September 2010 that sampled songs from ‘Two Door Cinema Club’, ‘Ellie Goulding’, ‘Marina and the Diamonds’, ‘Flight Facilities’ and ‘Death Cab for Cutie’. ‘You Are Not A Robot’ became lead single of the mixtape. A self-financed video of the single led the mixtape to get downloaded for more than 200,000 times.

Since March 3, 2011, he has featured in four videos with the comedy website CollegeHumor's team Jake and Amir.