Rich Chigga is one of Indonesian rappers and comedians. He is from Jakarta and single that made him famous is released in 2016 and it was called Dat $tick.
He moved into USA to make there his career.
Early life:
Rich Chiga was born in Indonesian town Jakarta on September 2, 1999. His real name is Brian Imanuel. His father is from China and his mother is from Indonesia, but their names are unknown. His father is a lawyer. He is youngest of five kids, and he have four siblings. His sister whose name is Eryka is famous in Indonesia and she owns channel on YouTube.
His family is middle class, and he never actually went to school. He was educated at home.
With only 11 years he got interested for social media and Internet. At first he interested for Photoshop and he started to post images on Twitter. That led him to making videos, in that time to him suited the best dark-comedy genre.
When he was 15 years old he transferred to Vine and he daily posted his videos. He learned English all by himself when he watched on YouTube videos of different kind. In the same time he interested and started to listen rap music and that also helped him a lot in learning English language. His the most favorite artists in that time was Childish Gambino, Mackelmore and 2Chainz.
From 2012 he listened rap more seriously and soon he started to listen Kanye West and Drake.
Career Development:
In 2014 he started to write his first song which he recorded on his Iphone. In the same year he opened his channel on YouTube and it was called Brian Imanuel.
In the next year he published his song Living the Dream on YouTube. After this song he published another titled Dat $tick which got him attention of many rappers and it also became known to the audience all over the world.
In 2016, Brian released his next song titled Who That Be. He also made a remix of a song Dat $tick with Pouya and Ghostface Killah because of popularity that this song had.
After that he released his 3rd single titled Seventeen. This song became popular with more than million views on YouTube. On SoundCloud was little or less the same number of views.
His popularity grows up and he started with tour though Amaerica in spring 2017. His tour name is Come to my Party Tour. In the same year he published song with XXXTentacion which was titled Gospel. On the beginning of 2018 this song have 26 million views on YouTube.
In May in 2017, Brian was a winner of 4th Indonesian Choice Awards. He won award for an Breakthrough Artist of the Year. Then he made announce for his next album.
In August 2017 he released song Glow Like Dat on YouTube channel 88rising, where was uploaded his previous songs. In October in the same year he published new song named Chaos, and in November he released song named Crisis with 21 Savage.
In December he make announce that he will release his album titled Amen in 2018 on February 2.
On the first day in 2018, January 1, on YouTube channel 88rising was released song titled See Me. Than he changed his official name in Brian, but seven days later he decided to change his name again and he changed it in Rich Brian.
Personal life:
There are no many informations about his dating history or with who Brian dating now. In 2015 he had relationship on long distance with girl from Maryland. They was in relationship for 2 months.
As home schooled kid he never really wanted to go to college.
Brian is active on several social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and he also have his channel on YouTube.
On Facebook his name is Rich Brian and he have more than 600 thousand likes on his page. Link of this page is: https://www.facebook.com/iamrichbrian/.
On Instagram he is signed up as brianimanuel and he have 1.5 million followers. Link of his account on Instagram is: https://www.instagram.com/brianimanuel/.
His Twitter account is very popular and it have 1.15 million of followers. Link is: https://twitter.com/richbrian.
On his channel on YouTube, Brian have 819 thousand subscribers. His songs and videos are very popular. His song titled Dat $tick have 83 million views, and for now this is his the most popular song. His next song by popularity for now is Seventeen with 7.2 million views.
Brian regrets for his stage name and he would love more that he can change it. That is why he changed his name from Rich Chigga to Rich Brian.
Quick summary
Full name: Brian Imanuel
Date of birth: September 2, 1999
Birthplace: Jakarta, Indonesia
Age: 19
Profession: comedian, singer, rapper
Height: 173 cm (5 feet 8 inch)
Weight: 70 kg (154 lbs)
Net Worth: $250 Thousand
