Madilyn Bailey

On March 31, 2014 this beautiful damsel and her beau, musician James Benurd, declared their engagement on YouTube through a sweet video. They got married on August 22 that year in Wisconsin among family and friends. Later she announced her marriage through an Instagram post.

A short film and many other videos of their wedding were uploaded in their YouTube channel.

This beautiful and talented artist is dyslexic.

Madilyn Bailey was born Madilyn Wold on September 2, 1992, in the village of Boyceville in Dunn County, Wisconsin, United States, to a middle class family of Greg Wold and his wife Heidi Wold. Her father serves in an advertising firm. Her five siblings are Isaac, Haley, Caden, Alex and Jordan.

The early years of Madilyn saw her studying at the ‘Grahams Elementary School’. She had a knack for singing and music from an early age which was well appreciated and encouraged by her family. She started writing songs and playing music at seven and also played in the marching band of ‘Boyceville High School’. *Though she wanted to take her musical interests further, being raised in a small village of 1000 odd people and having no option to shift to a place with better opportunities for music hardly left her with any choice. She then decided to start off with ‘YouTube’, like many other young talents.

Initially, she started recording covers in her bedroom with her simple camera and began uploading on YouTube. These included popular songs of artists like Madonna and Rihanna and within six months she started getting noticed. *As her viewership grew, Madilyn concentrated on ameliorating her YouTube channel and in that pursuit graduated six months earlier from her high school in 2011.

She worked for sometime as a certified nursing attendant before plunging into a full-time music career. During that time she used to play acoustic guitar and drums. She won a Guitar Center Singer/Songwriter Competition following which many opportunities came by.

She joined a YouTube based record label ‘Keep Your Soul Records’ in 2012 that specialize in development as also distribution of independent artists. There she assisted in producing her own material.

In 2013 she relocated to Los Angeles and in the second half of the year she toured the United States and Canada with the American rock band ‘Boyce Avenue’ founded by three brothers - Fabian Rafael Manzano, Alejandro Luis Manzano and Daniel Enrique Manzano. Later she described such touring experience as an amazing one.

Within two years, she successfully garnered more than 5,00,000 subscribers and around 70 million views.

In 2015 she posted her ‘Titanium’ cover which over couple of years amassed more than 50 million views and around 5 lakhs likes. It was originally sung and released by French DJ and record producer David Guetta in his 2011 album ‘Nothing but the Beat’. Her amazing rendition of the song garnered her immense popularity. It was aired on France’s ‘Virgin Radio’ which in turn fetched her recording contract in France with a ‘Warner Music Group’ label called ‘PlayOn’.

Her sensational rendition of ‘Titanium’ and thereafter ‘Radioactive’, both in 2015 saw the two cover songs climbing up the charts in France and Belgium giving her immense international recognition and fame.