Austin Mahone

Austin Mahone is an American pop singer-songwriter. He began his career by posting videos on YouTube in June 2010. More music videos followed, and by January 2011 he began to build an online following. On February 14, 2012, Mahone independently released his first single, "11:11", to iTunes. On June 5, 2012, he released his second single worldwide, "Say Somethin". In November 2012, Mahone signed a deal to become the new "Teen Ambassador" for Lil Wayne's Trukfit fashion clothing line. He has filmed commercials for McDonald's and Hot Nuts, a Mexican snack. On December 3, 2012, Mahone released a song titled "Say You're Just a Friend" featuring rapper Flo Rida as a digital download.

In June 2013, Mahone released a song called "What About Love." The music video won MTV's Artists to Watch at MTV Video Music Awards, and he was chosen as one of the opening acts of Taylor Swift's Red Tour. In December 2013, Mahone was named a "Digital and Brand Strategist" for Aquafina's FlavorSplash, a new line of flavored sparkling water targeted towards teens. On October 17, 2013, he kicked off his first ever headlining tour, MTV's Artist to Watch Tour. On July 25, 2014, Mahone kicked off his second headlining tour, Austin Mahone: Live on Tour.

In August 2015, he was picked as Elvis Duran's Artist of the Month and was featured on NBC's Today show broadcast nationally in the United States where he performed live his single "Dirty Work" after an interview with Hoda Kotb and temporary host Jenna Bush Hager. May 2016, Mahone became one of the faces of Macy's American Icons campaign.

On New Year's Eve, Mahone performed "Lady" on Pitbull’s New Year's Revolution. He has since then performed at two Dolce & Gabbana fashion shows in Italy with his new work. He performed two shows while on the Pitbull After Dark Cruise.

At the end of March 2017 he performed at POPSPRING Japan with his Hot 100 song "Dirty Work" which peaked at #1. He has now begun a campaign working with Fossil.

Since 2017, Japanese comedian Blouson Chiemi started to use "Dirty Work" as the background music of her popular comedy routine, which led the song to peak number 4 on the Japan Hot 100 Chart, also ending up being certified gold in the country. Later, Mahone announced the release of his first debut studio album exclusively in the country. It also included his collaborations "Lady" with Pitbull and "Creatures of the Night" with Hardwell which reached the number 1 position on Billboard's US Dance Club Songs chart.

On February 4, 2019, Mahone signed on to Atlantic Records and released the new single, "Why Don't We" which is penned by Charlie Puth and categorized as a fusion of modern pop and old school R&B under the 90s' influences. The music video was released on March 2, 2019 on YouTube. The music video is described as a throwback of Michael Jackson's blueprint with group choreography and some solo scenes chasing a lucky girl. He has also photoed for the Galore Magazine on February 14, 2019 as the cover star to talk about his new music. In March, he was featured in Paper magazine to talk about his new single, "Why Don't We" and the upcoming album.