Reggie Couz is a social media personality who has gained fame on Vine where he does comedy and music. More than the platform, he has also gained a huge number of followers on other social media sites like Instagram and YouTube where he has millions of subscribers. Here is everything to know about him.
Reggie Couz Bio and Age
The former Vine star was born in New Jersey on July 1, 1994. Not much is known about his childhood or how he was raised, but it is known that Reggie grew up as an only child.
As Reggie stated, it’s his social media activities, especially his videos on Vine when the platform was very busy. Interestingly, he started there shortly after leaving high school. Instead of collaborating with other Viners like he used to, he did it all by himself and yet was able to attract many followers in no time. At the time of Vine’s final shutdown in 2017, Reggie Couz was already approaching 4 million followers as he had already reached 3.9 million Vine followers.
Apart from Vine, he has also had a massive following on other media sites such as YouTube, which he launched in 2013. Since then, he has been able to register nearly 100 million views and nearly 1 million followers on the platform. On Instagram, he managed to gather more than 2 million followers.
Additionally, Twitter is another platform where the YouTuber enjoys great success with over 91,000 followers. On Facebook, Reggie has over 1.3 million followers and he can get a lot in terms of engagement.
One of the most interesting things about him is his ability to forge into many personas, which is what has been able to set him apart. Among its characters are Mr. Johnson, Pappa Couz, Holy Tony, Pastor Riley and many more.
The YouTube star’s family life
When it comes to Reggie Couz’s family life, while little is known about his family, he was able to recreate his family in his comedy playing the role of Papa Couz, a fictional father. In character, his father, who wears a mustache, always tells him so, also playing the part of the son to “shut him up”.
Although, as noted, little is known about his real parents, he revealed that his mother was scared for him to make a living outside of his chosen profession. Although she had her fears at first, she was still supporting him and was fully convinced that he was going in the right direction when he started paying. In 2017, the YouTuber revealed she was his business manager.
Musical career
For his musical career, what prepared him for was his education at Cicely Tyson’s School of Performing and Fine Arts, East Orange. There he had the opportunity to learn classical music in different languages, including Spanish, German, Italian and Russian.
After going to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where he decided to study music, he could not stay there for more than a year.
Through his music and skills, Reggie was able to develop Mr. Johnson’s Hip-Hop Chorus persona, which became hugely popular on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. He has also released a number of songs such as Dans la nuit, Holy Tony, Goin Down, and MOH
Even though he didn’t take his music to what anyone can call the mainstream, he still managed to get his fair share of his fanbase, which is mostly made up of people from his social media circle. Therefore, most of its listeners are mainly YouTube users. Nevertheless, his songs are also on various other platforms such as SoundCloud where he has over 55,000 subscribers, iTune, Tidal and many more.
Height and width
One of the things that one finds hard to argue about Couz is that he is a very handsome guy with a good height and a rather slim figure. Looking at the numbers, he stands at a height of 6ft 4in. For his weight and other body measurements, it still remains unknown in the public domain.