OmarGosh

Omar Arafat (born April 15, 2002), better known by his stage name OmarGosh, is an American singer, songwriter and internet personality. He is most known for his single "Hold Hands" produced by Gospa Studios, which started off his career by gaining him a lot of popularity especially on the social media. He was then added to the MTV Artist list, along with other platforms for artists, such as BBC UK. This provoked him to be Rank #1 in his city on the musician website "ReverbNation". This started his career off recently, sparking a lot of attention to the popular young artist.
Early Life
Omar Arafat originates from McAllen, Texas. The channel never grew in popularity, but some of his close friends who found inspiration in this, followed him in creating their own channels. A few years later, he then went on to create another YouTube channel called "YoungBrockens" that involved pranks, trick shots, and funny short-films.
The stage name 'OmarGosh' was created when he frequently misunderstood his friends when saying "oh my gosh" in amazement, sounding very similar to ‘OmarGosh’.<ref name=":0" /> He looks up to fellow musician Justin Bieber, and always tweets that he is motivated by his work ethic.<ref name=":4" />
Career
Omar began to develop a strong passion in music in 2015, when he started recording his first ever song having been influenced by Justin Bieber, who also started off by uploading YouTube videos before he was discovered.<ref name=":4" /> He later started learning the process of music production and began adding his vocals on various beats, later signing to independent record label, Gospa Studios. His dreams of seeing one of his major influences became a reality when he watched Justin Bieber perform live in 2016, and later when he got into contact with one of his inspirations, Jacob Sartorius, with whom they even talked about working on a collaboration with the young singer.<ref name=":0" /> OmarGosh released his first single Hold Hands on August 19, 2016, which is available on music stores such as iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and Amazon. He then released the music video for "Hold Hands" on September 8, 2016 on his "YoungBrockens" YouTube channel, which was trending for over 2 hours on YouTube and has reached over 50,000 views.<ref name=":2" /> He later performed the song which was an opening act for over 1,000 people at the McAllen Convention Center on November 23, 2016.

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