Lilly Singh

Television host

Birthday September 26, 1988

Birth Sign Libra

Birthplace Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

Age 35 years old

Nationality Canada

Height 1.65 m

#12098 Most Popular

1982

Her older sister Tina (born 1982) is also a YouTuber; she makes videos about her family life with her husband and their three sons, under the name 'The Tina Singh' (formerly 'MOM BOSS OF 3').

Singh had said she was a tomboy as a child.

1988

Lilly Saini Singh (born September 26, 1988 ) is a Canadian YouTuber, television host, comedian, actress and writer.

2006

She attended Mary Shadd Public School during her elementary years, and in 2006, she graduated from Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute in Malvern, Toronto, where she returned as an alumna to visit her old teachers.

She was a member of Girl Guides of Canada and participated in their youth programs.

2010

Singh began making YouTube videos in 2010.

In 2010, she graduated from York University in Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.

In October 2010, Singh started a YouTube channel under the pseudonym "IISuperwomanII".

She has explained that the name Superwoman was prompted by a childhood idea, making her believe she could do anything.

Starting out, Singh had intended to go to graduate school as her parents had requested, but chose to make YouTube videos and decided that she would return to graduate school if her YouTube career did not progress.

2011

In December 2011, Singh created a second channel called "SuperwomanVlogs", now titled "Lilly Singh Vlogs", where she chronicles her daily activities and includes behind the scenes footage from her videos.

Singh appeared as a background dancer in the movies Speedy Singhs and Thank You in 2011.

2012

When Singh acquired 100,000 subscribers in 2012, she applied to YouTube for monetization on her videos.

When YouTube accepted, Singh "became more career-minded" and bought her first camera for $699.

2013

In August 2013, Singh was featured alongside Jassi Sidhu in his Punjabi song Hipshaker.

2014

She used it as a second channel to upload videos until August 2014, when she began uploading vlogs.

Singh rapped in the song Mauj Ki Malharein, which played in the Bollywood drama Gulaab Gang in August 2014.

In July of the same year, she released a song titled #LEH in a collaboration with her friend, author and rapper Kanwer Singh, who is known by the pseudonym "Humble the Poet".

In 2014, Singh appeared in a small role in the Canadian production Dr. Cabbie.

In 2014, her channel ranked at #39 on New Media Rockstars Top 100 Channels.

The same year, she was nominated for a Shorty Award and a Streamy Award.

2015

She recorded and released another music video in February 2015 titled The Clean Up Anthem in collaboration with Canadian artist Sickick.

In March 2015, Singh began a world tour called "A Trip to Unicorn Island", adapting her YouTube content and including singing, dancing, music performances, comedy, and her parent characters.

Her tour covered India, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

She documented the tour in her first feature movie, A Trip to Unicorn Island, which also describes how YouTube fame is affecting her life.

In April 2015, Singh released a song about her hometown Toronto in collaboration with Humble the Poet titled #IVIVI (roman numerals for 416, Toronto's area code).

2016

In 2016, she was included in Forbes list of world's highest paid YouTubers ranking third and earning a reported $7.5 million.

In 2016, Singh released her first film, a documentary chronicling her world tour, entitled A Trip to Unicorn Island.

The movie was released on February 10, 2016, on YouTube Red (now called YouTube Premium).

She describes the film as being very "raw and genuine".

2017

By 2017, she was ranked tenth on the Forbes list of the world's highest-paid YouTube stars, earning a reported $10.5 million; as of February 2022 she has 14.7 million subscribers and over three billion video views.

In March 2017, she released her first book, How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life, which reached number one on the New York Times Best Seller list.

2019

She originally appeared under the pseudonym Superwoman (stylized IISuperwomanII), her YouTube username until 2019.

Forbes named her one of the 40 most powerful people in comedy in 2019.

She has received an MTV Fandom Award, four Streamy Awards, two Teen Choice Awards and a People's Choice Award.

In addition, Singh has received nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award and two Canadian Screen Awards.

From September 2019 to June 2021, Singh acted as executive producer and host of the NBC late-night talk show A Little Late with Lilly Singh.

She is the first person of Indian descent to host an American major broadcast network late-night talk show.

Singh was born and raised in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Her parents, Malvindar Kaur and Sukvindar Singh, are Indian Punjabi immigrants from Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India and raised her as a Sikh.