Lilly Singh
Lilly Singh
Lilly Singh, is a Canadian YouTube personality, vlogger, and comedian. Singh is known by her YouTube username IISuperwomanII. Since beginning her channel in October 2010, her videos have received over 1 billion views, and her channel has accumulated over 9 million subscribers. In 2016, she was ranked 8th on the Forbes list of World's Highest Paid YouTube Stars, earning a reported 3 million in 2015. Singh was part of YouTube Rewind 2014 and led YouTube Rewind 2015...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionYouTube Star
Date of Birth26 September 1988
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
I don't say no as much as I should. I'm an extreme workaholic. So I can be sick, and I still say yes to anything. When you are the CEO of your own company, editor of your own videos, your own writer ,and you do every role yourself, you have a hard time saying no to opportunities.
In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.
Fighting for happiness is the hardest thing you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.
The parent characters that I portray are Indian because I grew up in an Indian household. Having said that, I feel like people of all cultures would relate to those parents.
When I was coming out of depression, I made one random video. It wasn't funny or anything, but just the idea that people I didn't know were watching it made me feel less alone than I'd felt in a long time.
When I was younger, I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry.
You have a character who is wearing a scarf on her head on a billboard in LA, New York, Sydney and Melbourne. That's how I would face barriers being thrown at me.
Everything I do with my day is related to Superwoman. I'm either doing conference calls or writing a script or reading a script, editing a video, shooting a video.
Every day, something new gets thrown at me, and I'm like, 'How did this happen?' I've gone through some of the craziest life experiences because of YouTube.
The good thing about me is, I only do deals with people that I love to begin with.
You are not any different. You can do anything you want. So many times, I've been asked what I think of women stand-ups. If you actually look around, there are so many female comedians starring in the biggest TV shows.
When I started out the videos, I was dealing with depression, and I wanted to make inspiring videos for others, which would end up inspiring me in turn. I wanted to show the world that it was possible to make a positive switch in life and start over.
My job requires me to always be on. I'm always getting my makeup done for a shoot.
My creative process is a bit manic at times, to be honest. I wake up Monday and Thursday stressed because I don't have a video. I usually - with the exception of maybe a handful of videos - wake up, write the video, shoot the video, edit the video, release the video all in the same day.