Daniel Cole Thrasher (born February 24, 1993) is an American

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, filmmaker, actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for writing, directing, and starring in his piano-based

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videos to his self-titled

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(@danielthrasher). , his main YouTube channel has accumulated more than 1.7 billion views with more than 5 million subscribers.

Personal life

Daniel Thrasher was born on February 24, 1993 in

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, United States. He is the last of four children, having an older brother and two older sisters.

Career

Thrasher went to

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, a

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. Thrasher created his main YouTube channel, then titled ''muffinman3000'', on January 5, 2007, with the first video being uploaded on December 1, 2011. On November 13, 2012, Thrasher uploaded a video titled "How I Accidentally Wrote ''The Office'' Theme Song," in which he explains how, after he got a new piano, he was testing a chord progression that sounded familiar, before he realized it was the theme song of ''The Office''. A few years later, when Thrasher was in college, the video went

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, and has over 22million views and is the fourth most-viewed video on his channel. In 2015, Thrasher graduated from

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with Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performing Arts. In 2019, Thrasher quit his job as a

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to pursue YouTube as a full-time career. By that point, he had accrued over one million subscribers. During the

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s, Thrasher continued to post videos. As a result, he almost tripled his amount of subscribers. He was able to increase the size of his operation to a four-person team. In 2021, American comedy duo

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of ''

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'' announced that a fund called the Mythical Creator Accelerator was created to invest over $5 million into creators, through their production company Mythical Entertainment. Thrasher was the second beneficiary of the fund in April 2022. On December 1, 2021, Thrasher performed a one-day show at the

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in Los Angeles, entitled ''Daniel Thrasher: Laugh or Die''. He also embarked on a five-show tour in August 2022, entitled ''Daniel Thrasher Live'', traveling to three states across the

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. In October of the same year, he received a nomination for the Craft Award for Writing at the

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. Thrasher attended as a featured creator at

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in June 2023; in May of the same year, it was revealed that he was set to feature in the US

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of British television

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'', titled '' Dinner with the Parents'', which premiered on

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on April 18, 2024.

Awards and nominations

Discography

Solo albums

* ''Quick and Sketchy'' (2019)

Singles

* "Once Upon a Paradise" (2018) * "The After" (2021) * "When You Make a Musical Promise" (2022) * "I Play Piano Too" (2022) * "Shiny Object Syndrome" (2022) * "Igowallah" (2023) * "The Wiener Song" (2023) * "Leinad's Waltz" (2024) * "Need to Calm Down" (2025) * "Stay Up" (2025) * "Planes Are Falling Down" (2025)

Filmography

Film

Television

Web

Notes

References

External links

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