Bryan Evertz

Bryan Evertz Oquendo is a Venezuelan singer, songwriter, photographer, video editor and youtuber of Colombian and Dutch descent.

Early Life
Bryan was born and raised in Maracaibo, Venezuela. At the age of 16, he started posting spanish version covers on his current YouTube channel. His Dear Porcupines spanish version by Melanie Martinez helped him reach more than 140.000 views. In 2016 he graduated from High School at U.E. Miguel Servet.

At 17, he participated on a local singing contest called Soy Una Estrella 18, performing Disparo Al Corazón by Ricky Martin. Even though he didn't win one of the first spots, it was something he "enjoyed very much".

On the same year, Bryan created a YouTube channel dedicated to singer Melanie Martinez called mel's corner, which was very succesful and help him to attract more than 195.000 subscribers and 33 million views, earning his YouTube Silver Play Button Reward. However, it was taken down on 2018 due to copyright infringement.

On 2019, he moved to Barranquilla (Colombia), where he worked as a sales agent, but he went back to his hometown on 2020.

2018-present: No Signal EP
Since 2018 Bryan's been giving hints related to his music release. He stated during the entire year that the name of his debut album was Evolution, but a 2019 Instagram story he shared hinted that this project was scrapped, since he was working on an EP named A Singer With No Public.

However, on May of 2020, Bryan revealed that the final title of his upcoming EP via Twitter was No Signal, which will contain 6 or 7 tracks. He also announced he would perform live from home on the platform Sessions Live, stating he was hired. The next day, he performed his upcoming EP singles: Rubik's Cube and Silly Shadow, produced by Bodby Olwen, and songs by other artists as well.

On June, Bryan participated on an local online singing contest called Estrella Del Lago. Due to COD-VID19 outbreak, this contest was made via Instagram. His post, in which he sang Bonnie Tyler's spanish version of Total Eclipse of the Heart (Eclipse Total Del Amor) acumulated almost 1000 votes, being the most voted person out of the other 36 contestants. Despite the good reception of the audience, he didn't make it into the first spots, but his engagement made him earn the Social Media Star title.

Bryan set the EP release date "by the end of this year".

Trivia

 * His favorite video game sagas are Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Pokémon.
 * Bryan has a dog named Kira.
 * He owns a Nikon D3300 professional camera, which he uses for Instagram posts, videos and his freelance project Evertz Photography.
 * He is 5'7" (1.76 cm).