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Chloe Moriondo

born 2002 · singer-songwriter, YouTuber

Metro Detroit singer-songwriter who began posting ukulele covers on YouTube as a child in 2014 and grew into an indie pop and pop-punk artist with millions of followers.

Portrait of Chloe Moriondo
Photo: Vonlujtes · CC BY-SA 4.0
Born

Detroit, Michigan
age 23
Also known as
chloe moriondo
Detroit years
2002–2020s
Field
Music, Press & broadcasting

01 / The Detroit story

The Detroit story

Chloe Moriondo was born and raised in metro Detroit and started her YouTube channel in January 2014, at 11, with soft ukulele covers and early originals recorded at home. The channel grew to nearly three million subscribers and more than 220 million views, and it led to a record deal while she was still a teenager in Michigan. Her bedroom-pop debut Rabbit Hearts (2019) was followed by the louder, pop-punk-inflected Blood Bunny (2021) and the hyperpop-tinged Suckerpunch (2022). She writes about adolescence, queerness and anxiety with a mix of sweetness and bite that has made her part of the generation of internet-born indie artists.

Highlights

  1. YouTube channel with nearly 3 million subscribers (since 2014)
  2. Albums Rabbit Hearts (2019), Blood Bunny (2021) and Suckerpunch (2022)
  3. Moved from ukulele bedroom pop to pop-punk and hyperpop