Samuel Tsui is a Chinese American musician and Internet celebrity who rose to fame onYouTube. He is best known for covering and performing songs by popular artists, as well as original medleys and mashups. Tsui is currently an undergraduate at Yale University.

According to his profile on The Duke's Men of Yale's official website, Tsui is from Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.^[2] Tsui is of Chinese origin and grew up a street away from Kurt Schneider, his producer and accompanist, who along with Tsui attended Wissahickon High School.^[3]^[4] Tsui attends Yale University, where he is a member of Davenport College. He is expected to graduate with a major in classical Greek in 2011.^[2]^[5]^[6]

Collaborations between Tsui and Schneider began in high school with an electronic keyboard, primitive recording equipment, andGarageBand. Both attended Yale University, and there a musical partnership developed.^[5] They have produced videos ranging from coversand original medleys to the College Musical online series. As of December 2010, the YouTube channel "KurtHugoSchneider" has garnered over 115 million upload views and 550,000 subscribers.^[7] The most viewed video is the Michael Jackson medley, with more than twenty million

views.^[7] This medley is one of several where, using multiple pitch variations, Tsui sings as a one-man choir, covering both lead vocalsand background vocals, ranging from baritone to tenor.^[3]^[8] His videos have been described by Time as a combination of Glee and Attack of the Clones.^[9] Tsui was also a member of The Duke's Men of Yale, an all-male a cappella group.^[2]

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