Shirin David

Shirin was born in Hamburg, Germany, to an Iranian father and Lithuanian mother[1] and has one younger sister. She graduated from a school of opera singing, dancing and acting in Hamburg. David currently lives in Berlin. She openly talks about the struggles of being raised by a single mother, after her father left the family.

She started her YouTube channel in March 2014. In the ranking of Most Subscribed YouTube Channels in Germany, she is in the Top 50 with over 2.6 million subscribers.[2] In 2015, she reached the Top 10 of the German Charts as a feature on German R&B singer Ado Kojo's song "Du liebst mich nicht", a cover of the song with the same name by German rapper Sabrina Setlur. In February 2016, it was reported that she had cancelled her contract with YouTube network TubeOne Networks, who had made her famous.[3] In 2017, she was one of four judges at Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of American Idol.[4] She moved to Berlin in 2018, having lived in Cologne for more than three years previously.

In January 2019, David released her first official single "Orbit", which was later one of the tracks of her debut album Supersize.[5] In February, her second single "Gib Ihm" was released, reaching number one in the German Charts. About two months later, Shirin released the song "ICE", which was followed by "Fliegst du mit" in May. At the end of June 2019, she published the single "On Off" featuring Maître Gims,[6] which was followed by the single "Brillis" in August. On 20 September 2019, she released both the single "Nur mit Dir" featuring german singer Xavier Naidoo and her album Supersize, which peaked at number one on the German Album Charts. She became the first national female solo hip-hop artist to reach number one with an album as well as the first female hip hop act to top the charts with her debut album.[7]

In a YouTube Video released in September 2019, she announced her second perfume was set to come out in October 2019, after she had already sold a perfume as part of a collaboration with dm-drogerie since 2014.[8] The newest fragrance is a collaboration with Douglas and a first sample of it is found in the limited content box to her album Supersize.[9]

After David had already released two merchandising collections in November 2016 and June 2017 in collaboration with Holymesh,[10] she released a pair of slippers with GIB IHM printed on in April 2020 on her Shop ShirizzleShop. The Merchandise happens in collaboration with 30 Management GmbH.

David released the single "90-60-111" on 24 April 2020[11] which turned being her second number one-hit in Germany, as well as her first number one-single in Austria. She also released a limited merchandise collection for that single. Only two weeks after the release of "90-60-111", David was featured on the track "Conan x Xenia" by German rapper Haftbefehl.[12] Later in 2020, she released her song "Hoe's Up G's Down". Later, she released with german rapper Luciano "Never Know", which debuted in the Top 10 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

In 2017, David brought her own perfume called "Shirin David — Created by the Community" in cooperation with dm-drogerie. Her fans had the chance to vote for their personal preferences and tastes on a perfume during a specific time and created the perfume as a community. For her second perfume, "Shirin David — Created by Shirin", she cooperated with Douglas.

• 2017: Shirin David — Created by the Community (in cooperation with dm-drogerie)
• 2019: Shirin David — Created by Shirin (in cooperation with Douglas)