Discovered by Scooter Braun, who is also his manager.Usher Raymond signed him to Island Def Jam Records, and beat out Justin Timberlake 's hopes of signing the young singer.Taught himself four instruments including the piano, guitar, drums. He hopes to learn the violin.Has a high GPA.Can moonwalk.The Dream produced and wrote his songs Baby and One Time.His single "Baby" debuted at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.Moved to Atlanta, Georgia to pursue his music career.Born and raised in Stratford, Ontario in Canada; the same area as other stars including Brendan Meyer , Seth Sieunarine and Shawn Roberts .The craziest gift from a fan that he received was a rubber golf club.Bought a Macbook Pro with his own money - one of his biggest purchases.Likes the TV show "Smallville" (2001).Started out by posting youtube videos in 2007.His debut album was "My World".His mom, Pattie Mallette, travels with him all the time.Likes to play video games.Met Céline Dion at a New York Knicks basketball game. She approached him and said my son loves your songs.Plays guitar at many of his concerts.Has performed with Rihanna at the Super Bowl Weekend concert in Miami.Likes to play hockey and basketball.Recorded a few songs with fellow singer Sean Kingston .Has one day a week where he just relaxes.Recorded "We Are The World" for Haiti. He got the opening verse which was previously sung by Lionel Richie.Dad still lives in Canada.Wrote the song "Down To Earth" about his parents' seperation.The executive producer of his first record, My World was LA Reid.Has a twitter which he updates daily.Is good friends with Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez .His father's name is Jeremy, and his mother's name is Pattie.Plays the left-handed guitar.Has a younger half-sister, Jazmyn (born 2008) and a younger half-brother, Jaxon (born 2009).When he was child his church held a benefit to buy him a drum kit and 6 months of lessons.His first time in an airplane was flying to Atlanta to meet his future manager Scott 'Scooter' Braun.