Criss is a co-founder of Elsie Fest, a music festival which features Broadway and pop music acts. The first annual show was held on September 27, , in New York City. Criss was born in San Francisco, California, the youngest child of Cerina and Charles William Criss, an investment banker and a patron of the arts. Criss is Eurasian — his mother, a native of Cebu, Philippines, is of Chinese, Filipino and Spanish descent while his father, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was of English, German, and Irish descent.
Criss' interest in music started in early childhood; at age five, he began taking violin lessons and was classically trained for the next fifteen years. Criss taught himself how to play other instruments, including guitar, piano, mandolin, harmonica, and drums. In high school, Criss immersed himself in music — he held the position of concertmaster in the school orchestra, he fronted his own band, and was voted "most likely to win a Grammy" by his peers.
When he was fifteen, Criss began learning music composition and wrote his first song, which he later used as the title track of his first EP Human, released in During a benefit concert for public school arts on April 14, , Criss was made an honorary member of Yale University's a cappella singing group The Whiffenpoofs. His stint there proved to be a success: apart from Daniel Radcliffe's final week, the musical had the three most lucrative weeks of its month run with Criss in the lead role, grossing more than four million dollars.
In Concert! Criss is featured in the fall ad campaign for Uniqlo, a Japanese clothing line. A founding member and co-owner of StarKid Productions, a musical theater company based in Chicago, Criss first garnered attention playing the lead role of Harry Potter in, and writing most of the music and lyrics for, StarKid's musical production of A Very Potter Musical. The theater troupe made Billboard history when their original album, Me and My Dick, became the first charting student-produced musical recording, debuting at number eleven on the Top Cast Albums chart in In , Criss co-founded Elsie Fest which is touted as "New York City's first outdoor music festival celebrating tunes from the stage and screen".
Criss is best known for his portrayal of Blaine Anderson on the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee from until Can anyone confirm whether he actually plays the harmonica at all? He's holding it correctly, so maybe? What the hell is that? Seriously, I don't even know what that is ignorant American, what? Can someone educate me so I look a little less like an ass? Or where do you read it? In the ten minutes per day LJ is working,….
Anonymous comments are disabled in this journal. Your IP address will be recorded. Log in No account? Create an account. In significant part, his popularity was driven by the chemistry between his character and main character Kurt Hummel, who was being bullied in the story but received some much-needed assistance from the former.
Criss has stated that he loved the fact that a lot of people commented about changing their opinions about gay marriage because he saw a lot of his friends struggling with similar issues when they were growing up, which made the marriage more important from a cultural perspective than most people imagine. In it, Criss played a character called Lee, who encouraged the heroine of the story to persist with writing her play in spite of her insecurities as well as all of the shenanigans that happen throughout the course of the film.
Criss had the honor of performing at the inaugural balls of the 57th Presidential Inauguration, which saw President Barack Obama being inaugurated into his second term as the President of the United States. One interesting example is his support of The Trevor Project, which is a nonprofit organization that seeks to prevent suicides among target groups by providing a toll-free hotline as well as information to those who need it the most.
This nonprofit is important because LGBTQ youth have much higher suicide rates than other youth, thus making it a matter of the utmost importance. Like its name states, the album was meant to honor all of the work that has been done by the nonprofit organization over the years, which range from raising awareness to seeking the release of political prisoners in countries situated all around the world.
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In short, it is a festival meant to celebrate music from both the stage and the screen, which in turn, means that it features songs from both Broadway and the pop genre.
It remains to be seen whether Elsie Fest will become a true success, but so far, Criss has promised that it will be making a return in as well as in subsequent years. Naturally, part of the proceeds from the event went towards charitable causes.
Interestingly, Criss has also done some voice work in animated shows as well. For example, he voiced a character on one episode of the Cleveland Show. Similarly, he did some work with not just the Transformers franchise but also the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, albeit in minor roles.
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