Category: Entertainment

Working in the creative and entertainment world can go in two ways—achieve success or fail. Actor and social media influencer David Murietta has found a way to thrive in the entertainment industry, social media, and his personal life. David Murrietta grabs every opportunity to move ahead, which has helped him build his name in the entertainment world.

David Murrietta is an actor, social media influencer, and vlogger at Dalex Vlogs, which he runs with his wife, Alexandra Creteau. He has ramped up an impressive resume in film and television over a very short time with appearances in films like Underdog, Vicious Circle, Internal Conflict, Taps, Sunset Glory: Doolittle’s Heroes, Angelics: Ascension, and Grey’s Anatomy, to name a few.

David has personalized stud roles and is well-known for playing police officer and army-men roles in films and television shows. One fact that sets him apart is that he never had any acting training before he landed his first role. His acting journey has also been largely accidental, as it was not always a dream he actively worked towards achieving.

“I got into the acting and influencer business quite late. But, seeing how little theatrical training and experience I had, I was determined to make up for that by creating as much content as possible. So I have been involved in virtually everything from dramatic short stories to comedy sketches and full feature films. Anything that seems like it would project me further, I am all in,” David said.

Before he took on his journey in entertainment full-time, the actor had a background in business and law enforcement. He moved from San Jose to San Francisco to pursue a career in entertainment, and the journey began from there. After a few roles, he moved to Los Angeles, where he took entertainment as a fully fledged career that now spans social media influencing, vlogging, modeling, and fashion.

His social media presence is marked with over 85,000 followers on Instagram. He also runs a YouTube channel with his wife, Alexandra Creteau, where they both host a vlog called Dalex Vlogs. On their vlog, they share lifestyle videos, travel stories, health tips, and dating tips. They have a cumulative 700,000 views on all their videos, and the views continue to grow daily.

Looking back on his journey, he never envisaged getting to this point or taking entertainment as a full-time career. Finding himself as an entertainer that many people have grown to love is a dream come true, and he intends to make full use of the platform he now owns. He hopes to contribute to pressing issues in the world and use his influence to inspire those who have given up on their dreams because of one difficulty or the other.

“Perseverance always pays off in the end, and I would like to help people believe in themselves again,” David said. Learn more about David Murrietta on his official Instagram page or check out Dalex Vlogs on the YouTube channel.

There’s so much hassle with traveling, and a significant chunk of the hassle lies in where to stay during the trip. Holiday Swap was established to meet that need and solve accommodation problems for travelers at a near-zero cost of $1 per person per night.

Holiday Swap works using a simple principle—a traveler leaving a place swaps their home with another traveler visiting that place. It’s essentially home exchanging done via a secure platform and convenient for all the parties involved. Holiday Swap is being used by more than 500,000 users in 185 countries worldwide with its unique model that does not exactly create a business for its users.

Holiday Swap was established to be a point-of-need platform rather than a business opportunity for its users. It takes away the worry of booking expensive travel accommodation so that travelers can put their money into use for other luxuries during their travels.

“With our subscription plans, travelers can save even more and benefit from unlimited swaps, instantly messaging unmatched users and bringing one guest for free,” a spokesperson for the company said.

Holiday Swap gives users the option of swapping homes with another user or being a host to incoming travelers or just a guest in the destination location. “Our platform promises so many possibilities, which includes making social connections worldwide for future trips, exchanging local travel tips, discovering new destinations, or visiting old favorite locations,” the spokesperson opined. The company was listed in Forbes‘ “Top 20 Companies for Social Good” and named LUX Life Magazine‘s “The Best Home Sharing Platform,” which lends further credence to how much good Holiday Swap does for the travel industry.

With an easy-to-use platform and a free mobile application available for both Android and iOS devices, Holiday Swap gives its users no limits to what they can do when traveling the world. The company was born out of personal interest by a founder who loved traveling and made the news for it. James Asquith, a London banker and an avid traveler who holds the Guinness World Record for being the youngest man to visit all the 196 countries in the world at the age of 24, established Holiday Swap to make the dream of traveling the world a bit easier for those who hope to, someday.

While the company continues to make its platform more user-friendly and accessible to everyone, the founder has a projection of a $2 billion valuation in the next two years. The company’s goals for the next five years include signing up more than 50 million users in as many countries as possible. In the founder’s words, “We want to disrupt the travel industry and change the way young people travel. The ultimate goal is to become a leader in the travel industry and widen the gap progressively every year.”

As part of Holiday Swap’s value offering, it recently released an update to its mobile app to include new features such as New and improved search rankings and results, intuitive interactive maps, the ability to create multiple spaces linked to users’ profiles, new chat interface, removal of matching to allow users send messages to one another without an initial matching process. Holiday Swap also has a premium subscription that offers 14-day property damage guarantee included in every swap, one free guest included in every swap, trip cancellation and COVID-19 protection included in every swap and a free space boost. To celebrate the launch, the company is hosting a $10,000 giveaway. Those interested are advised to stay tuned for details.Learn more about Holiday Swap on the official website.

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Some job opportunities can slip away from our grasp as quickly as they arrive, a lesson that TikTok celebrity Addison Rae learned following a controversial tweet just days ago.

Addison Rae rose to fame when she joined the TikTok community and pursued a career as an online celebrity. Before becoming a TikTok influencer, Rae was dancing competitively, taking part in competitions throughout the country. She also studied at Louisiana State University in 2019, where she was learning about sports broadcasting. However, Rae joined TikTok and started gaining traction for videos of her dancing with her mother. 

Following a sudden surge in her followers’ count, Rae decided to drop out and fly to Los Angeles to pursue a new career. By January 2020, the dancer signed with talent agency WME. Eight months down the line, she became one of the most followed users on the app, accumulating over 81.8 million followers. Rae revealed that she first got into the app when she saw that the middle-schoolers she babysat were using it, prompting her to join the fad. 

Since then, her popularity has only grown. Addison Rae has risen quickly thanks to her platform, and she is set to feature in the film He’s All That and has appeared in Keeping Up with the Kardashians, being extremely close with Kourtney. While life had been looking up for the young dancer, Rae was faced with some controversies.

Earlier this year, Rae was invited to appear for a segment on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. During her appearance, she taught the veteran host how to perform some popular TikTok dances, sparking an online uproar as the segment failed to credit many of the black creators of the dance. Addison Rae later got into the hot seat following an incident where she opted to use a handheld face shield over a face mask while meeting some fans. After filming her segment on The Tonight Show, the celebrity was spotted in New York with a plastic shield in place of a mask, sparking another backlash from the online community for choosing her vanity over safety amid the pandemic. 

Much like many topics on the internet these days, the issue died down instantly. However, Rae once again made the headlines on July 10 when she tweeted, “I studied broadcast journalism in college for 3 whole months to prepare for this moment,” with pictures of her in front of a UFC backdrop. The photos were taken when Rae reported on a preliminary event for UFC 264. Her captions alluded to her short stint in Louisiana State University and were initially a joke. However, the online community called her out for having “zero self-awareness” and taking the job away from more qualified professional journalists. Rae’s fans quickly jumped to her defense but were unable to put out the fire. She later claimed that she was fired, tweeting, “nvm y’all got me fired.”

Despite her announcement, a source close to the situation declared that Addison Rae was not an official employee. She was merely invited to interview Dustin Poirier for a social media post as they came from the same city in Louisiana.

As everyone prepares for the summer fever, music playlists are about to be reconstructed. Music artists like Kaarmaa. are taking the opportunity to break beyond their current music scene into greater heights. As a talented and young songwriter, he took his passion into action for years and has lived for his music since.

Kaarmaa. deserves to be included in any discussion on this century’s most outstanding music songwriters as he spearheads the sound of summer for this year. As he does so, he is blurring the boundaries between rap, hip-hop, and electronic dance music. He is imbuing a sense of summertime energy with his music that attracts enthusiasts looking for up-and-coming artists dedicated to what they do. 

In the heart of San Francisco Bay Area, California, Kaarmaa. is carefully probing his feelings and the needs of others to ensure everyone from all walks of life relates to his songwriting. He’s a brilliant musician and a technical wizard who never loses sight of a song’s basic humanity, making him display an incredible aptitude for success in the music industry. 

Despite being known worldwide for its hip-hop/rap industry, the Bay Area offers a diversified roster of musicians. Kaarmaa emulates how he can go above others by his versatility as he reflects the diversity present in where he’s from. 

The singer-songwriter moves through the spaces of the industry with ease as his music waves reflect his knowledge of the industry’s ins and outs. Kaarmaa., who has been producing music for over six years, has been taking his craft seriously and is creating new songs on the verge of release. Since Kaarmaa.’s first single, “Influence,” was released on Soundcloud a year ago, he continuously attracts more fans and becomes a promising star. 

It seemed like 2020 would only bring more opportunities followed after his debut project, “Inst!nct,” was released, which was engendered to be the voice and help people cope with uncertain times. It also aims to bring hope to those who are in need. 

His lyrical journey began in his final year of high school in 2014, and he has worked tirelessly to hone his creative abilities during his college studies at UC Davis. Now, one can hear his skills on Kaarmaa.’s 2021 breakout single, “Stay.” Currently, Kaarmaa. is attempting to break into social media platforms where his new tune is already receiving a lot of attention—gaining rapid success on Spotify. 

Even though he has only published one track on the major streaming platforms, he manages to pack a lot of textures and tempos into the four minutes and ten seconds. Kaarmaa. not only demonstrates his abilities to rap and singing, but he also demonstrates that he has a strong ear for mixing and the modifications that need to be made to his voice to bring out the best version of himself—a complex understanding of the nuances of art. 

Despite his sound of genre-mixing magic being a success, Kaarmaa. is still open to new ideas, adapting to new situations, and learning and relearning new things. This, coupled with his display of personality by fusing elements from several sounds into a single unified mood, has led him to the continuously growing 6,000 monthly listeners. 

As the young artist from the Bay Area is making his way to the greater heights of the industry, get updated by following Kaarmaa. on Spotify.

Scar Nitti is back and better than ever with the release of his new EP titled “Price Check”. The 4 song project marks a big moment for the young New York artist. Coming off the success of his breakout single “Success Pains” he is maintaining momentum and is showing no signs of letting up. New York is one of the densest populated cities in the United States and was hit hard by Covid-19 at the beginning of the pandemic. As the city recovers from such a devastating year, new music from Scar Nitti is a sign of hope and optimism, symbolizing the rebirth of the city as springtime begins. 

The “Price Check” Ep is short but densely packed with deep content from the artist. Starting off the project with “Scan It” the listener is instantly immersed in the east coast boom bap style that originated from the East Coast back in the ’90s. Scar Nitti takes elements from the classic Hip-Hop flow and makes it into his own. The lyrical ability of this MC is unmatched and needs to be appreciated. 

With only one feature on the entire project coming on song 3, we get an incredible section from DJ Tek Wun. The melodic up-tempo record adds a groovy vibe to the project, giving it an even more mainstream appeal. The final song on the project wraps it up perfectly, the outro titled “Still A Soldier” brings Scar Nitti back to his roots. This hard-hitting east coast banger is what many fans are looking for in an era with so many bubblegum trap and pop songs. Scar Nitti is the opposite of a soft pop singer. He attacks this beat hard, leaving no space for anyone who doubted to even get a word in. If you consider yourself a Rap fan and enjoy real East Coast boom-bap music, Scar Nitti is a must-listen. Go give “Price Check” a listen on all streaming platforms including Spotify, and follow Scar Nitti on social media to keep up with him on all things. In an era where thousands of new songs are released every day, it is refreshing to hear such a talent rise out of New York once again, giving all real Hip-Hop heads hope for what’s to come.

Psychedelic dream-pop artist Jonny Kasai, or also known as Kazaizen, looks to break the barriers of time with the release of his first-ever album, “Cyclops Dragon Light Switch.” The new record builds a bridge that joins the psychedelic sounds of the 60s and more contemporary styles of the music industry’s most recent evolutions. 

Kazaizen hails from Saint Paul, Minnesota. A multi-instrumentalist with a vision of the future of culture, society, and art, Jonny knows what music means to people and delivers it to them. His sound has attracted a niche group of music lovers, which continues to grow by the day, given his unique sound. Kazaizen’s music merges melancholy and surrealism through the reverberations of electric pianos, organs, and synth instruments. His music is ethereal at its core and transports people into a sci-fi-like reality where pipe dreams come to life. 

On December 31, 2020 – just before the turn of the New Year – the artist launched his debut album, “Cyclops Dragon Light Switch,” which features ten trippy tracks that bring back the best of Psychedelia. The album’s production comes through the genius and efforts of Wormhole Records, based in Houston, Texas. When sharing about the album’s goal, Kazaizen is clear about his direction- and it seems that all routes of the musician’s work lead towards the future. “The album release represents a movement into the future,” shares Jonny Kasai. 

The release of “Cyclops Dragon Light Switch” comes as a string of musical campaigns from a collective of musicians called the Non-Violent Music Nation. The Minnesota-based group is a collaboration of artists who plan to release various albums and singles throughout 2021 and many other years following that.

The album, along with the works of Non-Violent Music Nation, seeks to challenge the status quo. Kazaizen, along with other artists, hopes to move people away from the repetitive musings of pop culture and encourage people to move into new realms of music that could bring more profound experiences to listeners everywhere. 

Kazaizen has risen to prominence in record time as he is now the talk amongst many social circles both online and offline. The artist released four music video singles in no more than two months, which have grown in popularity since their publishing. The first music video, “Oranjtanman,” first came out right after the US Presidential Elections and referenced recent political themes in the nation. The music video has collected over 10,000 views in the first few months alone and continues to grow. Kazaizen quickly followed the breakthrough single with three other tracks with music videos, namely “What the Funk,” “Telephone (All Alone),” and “By The Sea.”

Apart from the hard-to-miss hypnotic melodies, Kazaizen’s music has drawn crowds for the relevance and powerful messages his songs carry with them. “Telephone (All Alone,” for instance, talks about the rising obsession people have over smartphones and other devices that continues to pull people away from each other. The artist shares how his music exists not just to entertain but also to grow people. He believes that art can be a way to create greater awareness of messages that matter and use an artistic twist to catch people’s attention. 

To learn more about Kazaizen and check out his debut album, “Cyclops Dragon Light Switch,” visit his Instagram account and YouTube channel.