Sam Tsui launched his career on the internet, where the American pop singer
began uploading his vocal performances during the late 2000s. Born to a
Cantonese father and Caucasian mother on May 2, 1989, he was raised in Blue
Bell, Pennsylvania, and began collaborating with his high-school friend Kurt
Schneider as a teenager. The two both attended Yale University and continued
their musical partnership as college students, with Schneider producing Tsui's
covers of pop songs by Britney Spears, Nelly, and Michael Jackson. Some of those
performances were collected on Tsui's debut EP, ...