Dodie Clark

Dodie Clark
Clark in 2016
Background information
Birth name	Dorothy Miranda Clark
Born	(1995-04-11) 11 April 1995 Enfield, London, England[1]
Genres	Pop indie pop folk
Occupation(s)	Singer songwriter YouTube personality
Instruments	Vocals ukulele piano guitar
Associated acts	Evan Edinger Tessa Violet Bry Emma Blackery
Residence	London, England
Nationality	British
Home town	Epping, Essex
YouTube information
Also known as	dodie
Channels	doddleoddle
Years active	2011–present
Subscribers	1,698,230 (main channel subscriber count)[2]
Total views	345 million views (rounded all channels)[3][4][5]
Play buttons 100,000 subscribers 2015 1,000,000 subscribers 2017
Subscriber and view counts updated as of 21 August 2018.

Dorothy Miranda "Dodie" Clark^[6] (born 11 April 1995) is an English singer-songwriter, author and YouTuber from Epping, Essex. Clark posts both original songs and cover songs on her main YouTube channel "doddleoddle" and posts vlogs on her side channel "doddlevloggle". Clark is known for her piano and ukulele covers as well as her original songs. As of July 2018, she has over 160 videos, over 1.7M^[4] subscribers, and over 200 million views on her main channel. On her side channel, she has 350+ videos, over 870K^[3] subscribers, and over 100 million views. On 9 December 2016, she released the first video on her Vevo channel, dodieVEVO, where she has over 11.8 million views and over 372K subscribers. She has collaborated with many other YouTube artists including Tessa Violet, Lauren Aquilina , Orla Gartland, Thomas Sanders, Jon Cozart, Emma Blackery, Flashback and more.^[7]

Clark has released two independent extended plays, Intertwined and You, both of which charted within the top 40 of the official UK Albums Chart at numbers 35 and 6, respectively.^[8]

Career

Dodie's first channel was called "Dodders5", now known as the "Alice and Dodie show!", which was created on 1 August 2007 and shared with her friend Alice Webb.^[9]

Clark's main channel "doddleoddle" was created on 7 February 2011; her first video on that channel, an original song called "Rain", was uploaded on 14 April that year. In addition to her main channel, Clark has a VEVO channel, "dodieVEVO",^[10] and a side channel, "doddlevloggle".^[11]

On 18 November 2016 Clark self-released her first EP, Intertwined.^[12] Despite its unsigned status, the EP reached number 35 on the official UK album charts during its first week of release.^[13]

Clark also co-hosted Coca-Cola's CokeTV alongside fellow YouTuber Manny Brown, where they took part in various activities.^[14]

Dodie's second EP, You, was released on 11 August 2017. In its opening week of release, the EP debuted at number 6 on the official UK Albums Chart—29 places higher than the peak of Intertwined, thereby marking a new personal best for Clark.^[15] It also debuted at number 55 on the US Billboard 200.^[16]

In June 2017, Dodie announced that she was writing a book.^[17] On 2 November 2017, Clark published her autobiographical book titled Secrets for the Mad: Obsessions, Confessions and Life Lessons.

Dodie has also been featured on lyric annotation website Genius where she analysed her single "Party Tattoos".^[18] In 2018, she was featured in a collaboration with Faultline, a cover of the song All I Do Is Dream of You which was featured in an advertising campaign by Audi in the United Kingdom.^[19][20]

Dodie announced on September 18, 2018 that she has a new EP to be released in January of 2019 entitled “Human” with the title track being the lead single released on September 21.^[21]

Touring

In 2014, Clark joined fellow YouTuber Bry on his national tour of the UK and rejoined him on his Australian and New Zealand tour in 2015. In January 2015, she supported Bethan Leadley (MusicalBethan) on her UK Tour. She toured with Tessa Violet twice over the period of 2015-2016, as well as with Jon Cozart and Rusty Clanton in 2016.^[22]

She toured the UK for her EP, Intertwined, in March 2017, with Rusty Clanton as her opening act and Orla Gartland as her guitarist.^[23][24] Dodie also toured her You EP, during October 2017, again with Orla.^[25] Dodie toured Europe in February and March 2018.^[26] She also had her 3rd UK tour, titled ‘The Spring Tour’,^[27] where she was supported by the acts Fenne Lily and Skinny Living. Dodie also frequently performs at YouTube-related and musical festival events.^[28][29][22] Dodie is touring with Tessa Violet in the US, in September 2018.^[30][31][32]

Awards and nominations

Discography

Personal Life

Clark is bisexual, and came out openly in 2016.^[42] She has since been celebrated as a prominent bisexual role model and campaigner.

In 2018, Clark voiced her support for student-led political campaign group For our Future’s Sake (FFS), who advocate a people’s vote on the Brexit deal.

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