Adam Saleh

Adam Saleh
Born Adam Mohsin Yehya Saleh
(1993-06-04) 4 June 1993
New York, USA
Alma mater John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Occupation
Years active 2012–present
Website www.adamsalehworldwide.com

Musical career

Genres
Instruments
  • Vocals
Years active 2012–present
Associated acts

Adam Mohsin Yehya Saleh (born 4 June 1993) is an American YouTube personality, vlogger, actor and rapper from New York City, USA best known for his YouTube videos.

Life and career

Adam Saleh was born in Brooklyn to Yemeni parents. He first attended Central Park East High School and then John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He started making YouTube videos in 2012 as a part of his YouTube channel "TrueStoryASA" with his college friends Sheikh Akbar and Abdullah Ghuman.[1] He told an interviewer: "Sheikh, Abdullah, and I went to college in New York City. One day we were really bored and we just decided to do a video for fun. We started to upload videos on YouTube and Alhamdulillah (praise be to God) it got us to where we are right now. We had a lot of interviews on TV shows.". He also became part of another collaborative channel "3MH" with Sheikh Akbar, Karim Metwaly and Slim Albaher. TrueStoryASA and 3MH split up in May 2015.[2] Since then he has created many videos and is known as solo YouTuber. He has also appeared in American buddy cop comedy-drama action film American Sharia.[3] Adam first released the single "Diamond Girl" on May 3, 2015 featuring Sheikh Akbar and Mumzy Stranger as a part of TrueStoryASA.[4] On 16 August 2015 he released his debut solo single "Tears" featuring Zack Knight as a tribute to his cousin.[5] Later on during that year, he released another single " Survivor" on October 18, 2015. Adam released his third single "Tomorrow's Another Day" on December 4, 2015.

Controversies

A video titled "Racial Profiling Experiment'" uploaded on Adam's YouTube channel in October 2014 became viral around the world. In the video Adam and Sheikh Akbar argued with each other in front of a police officer wearing western outfits but the cop ignored them. Few minutes later they fight again while dressed in Muslim clothes but this time the cop stops them and behaves rudely with them. The video received more than 200,000 views on YouTube and it was also picked up by media. Public reaction to the video was against the police officer. Later Adam admitted that the video was a hoax.[6][7][8]

In December 2015, Dailymail.co.uk reported that the Scotland Yard spent £80,000 on Adam. They claimed that Adam was paid £26,00 by the Scotland Yard for performing in London and Manchester. The Scotland Yard also spent money for releasing the single Survivor which was written by a British counter-terror officer. The lyrics of the single had a positive message so it can attract Muslim teens and keep them away from extremism. The lyrics of the single Survivor includes the line: "I’m trying to put my homies on the right track, so people ain’t scared of every Asian with a backpack.". Daily Mail also referred to Adam as a "criminal" for his YouTube video in which he steals his manager's car to prank him and drives it with one hand while holding the camera and saying that he cannot legally drive in the United Kingdom.[9][10]

Channels

Singles

References

  1. ↑ "Adam Saleh: Omar Dana, a 15 year old from kansas, had reached out to saleh's nephew, hamzah. the rise of a Muslim YouTube star". Thenational.ae. Saeed Saeed. August 16, 2014. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ "TrueStoryASA split". BBC. May 15, 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  3. ↑ "American Sharia (2015)". IMDb. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "True Story ASA's Adam Saleh and Sheikh Akbar release first single". Thenational.ae. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  5. ↑ Saeed Saeed (13 August 2015). "Exclusive: Adam Saleh on his new hip-hop single and his UAE shows in December". Thenational.ae. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "YouTube pranksters admit NYPD stop-and-frisk video staged". RT. 22 October 2014. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Muslim Vloggers Come Clean About Staged Stop-And-Frisk Video (UPDATE)". HuffingtonPost.com. 20 October 2014. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Watch police frisk man in Muslim dress – moments after letting him walk past in Western clothes". Mirror.co.uk. 19 October 2014. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
  9. ↑ Martin Beckford (19 December 2016). "Criminal! Met Police blow £80,000 on US hoaxer to perform gun cop's VERY PC rap to help turn Muslim teenagers away from extremism". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  10. ↑ Richard Littlejohn (22 December 2015). "Snoop Ploddy Plodd and the Scotland Yard Massive: RICHARD LITTLEJOHN wants to know who in the police had the idea to hire a rapper to perform anti-radicalisation songs to young Muslims". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 24 January 2016.

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