Jeffree Star
Jeffree Star (* 15. November 1985 in Orange County , California as Jeffrey Lynn Steininger ) is an American make-up artist, entrepreneur, fashion designer , singer , DJ and Webvideoproduzent .
Life
Steininger "discovered in his early childhood that he was bisexual". His father died early, and his mother worked as a model. Star experimented with his mother's makeup and stopped going public without makeup. He currently lives in Hidden Hills, California. At the beginning of 2020, he announced the separation from his friend Nathan Schwandt.
Career
Myspace
Jeffree Star used the popular social networking website Myspace in the early 10s to advance both his music and fashion design careers. Jeffree Star used the popular Myspace social network to blog about his life and provide advice on "self-image and self-esteem" as well as fame, beauty and life. The number of his Myspace friends was over 1 million in September 2010. In November 2006 it was the most linked profile in Myspace. Star also became known as one of the most popular independent artists as he was at the top due to his daily ranking on Myspace.
Music career
Star's music career as an electro and dance singer began when he befriended the drummer from the band Peaches , who encouraged him to make music. Star was then asked by Hollywood Undead if he would rap on the song, "Turn Off The Lights" for their debut album. However, the song didn't make it onto the finished CD.
He wrote his first two own songs We Want Cunt - named after his former scene name "Cunt: Queen of the Beautifuls" - and Straight Boys together with Hole and once with Mötley Crüe drummer, Samantha Maloney and singer Jessicka Addams from Scarling.io - his first single, which he offered as a free download to thank his fans. The song is a cover of Rockwell's Somebody’s Watching Me . Metro Station's Trace Cyrus and Mason Musso originally recorded lyrics for the song, however, due to a feud between the band and the star, the band was replaced by Danger Radio's Andrew de Torres.
Cupcakes Taste Like Violence , Star's second extended play, was released on December 9, 2008. This was his first recording that was offered both on CD and as a download . It is also Star's first recording to Popsicle Records by the Warner Music Groups Independent Label Group. Star said the extended play "reminds me of myself. I may look cute, but actually I'm very creepy and brutal inside." Cupcakes Taste Like Violence rose to number six on the Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart Number eight on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. "Lollipop Luxury" was the first single in Extended Play, released on November 18, 2008.
Stars debut studio album , Beauty Killer was released on September 22, 2009. The album's first single, "Prisoner," was released as a download on May 2, 2009. The song received two million views on Myspace after just the second week. Love Rhymes With Fuck You was the album's second single; like Prisoner , it was offered as a download from June 30, 2009. The album debuted at number 122 on the US Billboard 200 chart . It also rose to number 7 on the US Billboard Top Dance / Electronic Albums chart and then dropped to number 12 in week two. A music video for Prisoner, directed by Robert Hales , was originally planned. However, it was later replaced with a music video for "Get Away With Murder," which was filmed on November 7, 2008. The video premiered on the Myspace homepage on January 23, 2010.
Star released a remix cover version of Black Eyed Peas ' Boom Boom Pow , which was offered as a free download. Morgan Pages Radio Edit Mix of "Prisoner" was released on December 18, 2009 as a free download from Star.
He worked with producers Lester Mendez, Nathaniel Motte from 3OH! 3 , God's Paparazzi. Star also performed on the 2009 Warped Tour to promote his new album. In 2010 he made a world tour with the title 2 drunk 2 fuck , with appearances for the first time in Germany, in Cologne, Stuttgart and Munich.
Star released its fifth single "Blush" on February 16, 2010. "Size of Your Boat" was released on July 1, 2010 as Stars' sixth single. This was followed by the song "I'm In Love (With a Killer)", which was released on October 10, 2010 as a free download via Facebook . Star also recorded an Anthem song for the It Gets Better Project called Kiss It Better . The song was also released as a free download on November 4, 2010.
Star has had a few guest appearances in songs by other singers. Together with Gods Paparazzi (also known as Lucian Walker) he recorded the song Heart Raper , which also appeared on Gods Paparazzi Mixtape 333 ; the song was also offered as a free download. On March 1, 2011, Star released their song Catch Me If You Can together with the Millionaires .
2012 became Prom Night! published and played several times on the radio, including in the United States, Canada and France. The song is Jeffree Stars' radio debut. A single Mr. Diva was released on October 2, 2012 and was also available as a record for the first time .
Jeffree Star Cosmetics
In 2014, Star started his e-commerce makeup brand Jeffree Star Cosmetics with what was left of his savings. He started making videos to promote the brand on YouTube and became a popular YouTuber, having more than 18 million subscribers and over 2 billion visitors in 2020. Bustle Magazine described Star as "a musician and former Myspace celeb who reinvented himself in the YouTube makeup tutorial room." His first cosmetic release was a collection of liquid lipsticks, followed by highlighter palettes, lip scrubs, eyeshadow palettes, clothing and accessories such as mirrors and makeup bags. Jeffree Star Cosmetics' first physical pop-up shop opened on August 11, 2018 at Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus , New Jersey .
Discography
Studio albums
| year | Album information |
|---|---|
| 2009 | Beauty killer |
Extended plays
| year | Album information |
|---|---|
| 2007 |
Plastic Surgery Slumber Party
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| 2008 | Cupcakes Taste Like Violence |
Singles
| year | title | album |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 |
Lollipop Luxury
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Cupcakes Taste Like Violence |
| 2009 |
Prisoner
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Beauty killer |
| 2012 |
Prom night!
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| Mr. Diva | Mr. Diva - EP | |
| 2013 |
Love To My Cobain
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Promotional singles
| year | title | album |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 |
Heart Surgery Isn't That Bad ...
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| 2009 |
Love Rhymes With Fuck You
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Beauty killer |
| 2010 |
Blush
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Size Of Your Boat (featuring Muffy)
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I'm In Love (With A Killer)
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| 2011 |
Lollipop Luxury (featuring Nicki Minaj )
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Beauty killer |
B-sides
| year | title | A-side |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 |
I hate music
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Heart Surgery Isn't That Bad ... |
| 2010 |
Prisoner (Morgan Page Radio Edit Mix)
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Blush |
| 2012 |
Legs up
|
Mr. Diva - EP |
Free downloads
| year | title |
|---|---|
| 2008 |
Starstruck (featuring Danger Radio)
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| 2009 |
So Fierce (Acoustic)
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Boom Boom Pow (Remix)
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Prisoner (Morgan Page Radio Edit Mix)
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| 2010 |
Size Of Your Boat (Remix)
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I'm In Love (With A Killer)
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Kiss It Better
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| 2012 |
Virginity
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I Fell In Love For The First Time
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| 2013 |
Take a bite
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Music videos
| year | title | Director | album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 |
Get Away With Murder
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Robert Hales | Beauty killer |
Beauty killer
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Austin Young | ||
| 2012 |
Prom night!
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Robby Starbuck | - |
| 2013 |
Love To My Cobain
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Laurieann Gibson | - |
Filmography
| Guest appearances on television | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| year | title | role | annotation |
| 2007 | Video on Trial | Jeffree Star | Guest Jurist (episode 20, season 2) |
| LA Ink | "Kat's in Love" (Episode 10, Season 1) | ||
| 2011 | "Nothing Is Forever, Not Even Tattoos" (Episode 21, Season 4) | ||
| 2015 | What Now | Victoria | - |
| 2018 | The Secret World of Jeffree Star | Jeffree Star | |
Other appearances
Songs
| year | Artist | song | publication |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Hollywood Undead (featuring Jeffree Star) | Turn off the lights | Unpublished |
| 2007 | Jeffree Star | Plastic Surgery Slumber Party | True Colors: The Tour |
| 2008 | Electric Valentine (featuring Jeffree Star) | Addicted | Friends With Benefits EP |
| Ultraviolet Sound (featuring Jeffree Star) | Texxxt Bomb | OCD | |
| 2009 | IT BOYS! (featuring Jeffree Star) | Just dance | Unpublished |
| Larry Tee (featuring Jeffree Star) | Louis Vuitton (Blogula Remix) Club Badd | ||
| Jeffree Star | Prisoner | Warped Tour 2009 Tour Compilation | |
| Breathe Carolina (featuring Jeffree Star, Austin Carlile and Dave Strauchman ) | Have You Ever Danced? | Hello Fascination (Japanese Edition) | |
| 2010 | Blood on the Dance Floor (featuring Jeffree Star) | Sexting (remix) | single |
| Inject Me Sweetly (feat. Jeffree Star Version) | |||
| DUI (feat. Jeffree Star Version) | Free download | ||
| Jeffree Star | Bad girls | Turn The Beat Around OST | |
| Deuce (featuring Jeffree Star and Truth) | Break Them Wallz | Free download, The Call Me Big Deuce EP | |
| T. Mills (featuring Jeffree Star) | Purr Like a Cat | Free download | |
| William Control (featuring Jeffree Star and Ashley Costello) | Dorian Gray | Noir | |
| Deuce (featuring Jeffree Star) | Freaky Now | Free download, Nine Lives | |
| School Boy Humor (featuring Jeffree Star) | California Love | Free download | |
| 2011 | Gods Paparazzi (featuring Jeffree Star) | Heart raper | Free download, Mixtape 333 |
| Millionaires (featuring Jeffree Star) | Catch Me If You Can | single | |
| Drummerboy (featuring Jeffree Star) | Freak show | single | |
| Cash Cash (featuring Jeffree Star) | Sexin 'On The Dance Floor | single | |
| It boys! (featuring Jeffree Star) | Burning Up | single | |
| Deuce (featuring Jeffree Star) | Let's Get It Crackin ' | Single, nine lives | |
| 2014 | Blood on the Dance Floor (featuring Jeffree Star) | Poison Apple | Single, bitch craft |
Music videos
| year | Artist | song | Label (s) | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Godhead | Push | Cement Shoes Records | Agata Alexander |
| 2007 | Good Charlotte | The River | Epic , Daylight | Marc Webb |
| Amy Winehouse | Tears Dry on Their Own | Island Records | David LaChapelle | |
| The Autumns | Boys | Bella Union | Piper Ferguson | |
| Aiden | One love | Victory Records | Nathan Cox | |
| 2008 | Metro station | Shake It | Columbia | Josh Forbes |
| 2010 | Ke $ ha | Take It Off (K $ n 'Friends Version) | RCA Records | SKINNY |
| 2011 | Falling in reverse | I'm not a vampire | Epitaph Records | Zach Merck |
| 2012 | It boys! (featuring Jeffree Star) | Burning Up | Hollywood Waste Records | Chris Crary |
| 2013 | Far East Movement (featuring Riff Raff) | The Illest | Mike Clattenburg | |
| 2015 | Memphis May Fire | The rose | Brian Thompson |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jeffrey Steininger , myheritage.de, accessed December 10, 2017.
- ↑ Face to Face: Jeffree Star . October 26, 2009 ( out.com [accessed December 31, 2016]).
- ↑ a b c d Linda Immediato: Jeffree Star: The Fairest One of All . LA Weekly . May 9, 2007. Retrieved June 9, 2007.
- ↑ Jeffree Star: Jeffree Star: Electro / Pop . MySpace . July 15, 2009. Retrieved July 15, 2009.
- ^ Weiner, Jonah: Tila Tequila for President. April 11, 2006, accessed April 21, 2020 .
- ↑ 22 January 2006: Jeffree Star Interview - Part 1 (repost) . YouTube. August 7, 2009. Archived from the original on February 25, 2007. Retrieved on March 29, 2010.
- ↑ MPFree: Jeffree Star 'Starstruck' . In: Buzznet.com . Archived from the original on October 21, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 3, 2008.
- ↑ We're Listening To You. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. purevolume
- ↑ Jeffree Star Interview YouTube
- ↑ Miley's Brother Is Tranny Hating ?! And He's A Druggie Too ??? Perezhilton.com
- ↑ EXCLUSIVE: Trace Cyrus From Metro Station Responds To Jeffree Star. YouTube
- ↑ a b Cupcakes Taste Like Violence Jeffree Star. Amazon.com
- ↑ Jeffree Star, On Recording 'Cupcakes Taste like Violence' In Nothing But Heels . MTV Buzzworthy Blog
- ↑ Jeffree Star Beauty Killer Out Sept. 22nd . July 24, 2009. Retrieved July 24, 2009.
- ↑ a b c Jeffree Star to release debut “Beauty Killer” this summer . Hip Online. Retrieved May 4, 2009.
- ↑ Jeffree Star announces his second single from 'Beauty Killer' .
- ^ Beauty Killer - Jeffree Star (2009) Billboard.com
- ↑ Prisoner Music Video Update . Retrieved on September 14, 2009. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. September 7, 2009
- ↑ Jeffree Star announces debut music video release date January 15, 2009
- ↑ Jeffree Star Takes No Prisoners . 29-95.com. Archived from the original on September 26, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
- ↑ Vans Warped Tour 2009 . WarpedTour.com. Archived from the original on September 19, 2009. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
- ↑ itunes.apple.com
- ↑ Meet the Real Jeffree Star: "I'm in a Different Place. I'm Growing Up." . Cosmopolitan.
- ↑ About jeffreestar . YouTube.
- ↑ When Is Jeffree Star's Beauty Killer Eyeshadow Palette Coming Out? You Can Buy It On This Date . Bustle.
- ↑ YouTube makeup star Jeffree Star coming to Garden State Plaza to launch cosmetic store (en) . In: North Jersey .
- ↑ Take It Off - Music Video . Retrieved January 5, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Star, Jeffree |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steiniger, Jeffrey Lynn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American model, drag queen, make-up artist, fashion designer, singer and DJ |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orange County (California) , California, United States |