Among her most popular videos are “How Girls Get Ready”, “Shit Punjabi Mothers Say” and “The Difference Between Brown and White Girls.”Īfter she graduated from York University, Singh’s parents wanted her to study for a masters’ degree - but she persuaded them to let her put her studies on hold for a year to see if she could make a living from YouTube. As her comic sketches grew in ambition, Singh began to play multiple characters in full make-up and costume. She brainstorms, scripts, stars in, shoots and edits all her comedy videos herself. I took the stairs, not the escalator.”īeing a YouTuber has afforded Singh total control over her output. “Every video and every tweet has counted,” she told Marie Claire magazine. “And from a business point of view, when I discovered YouTube, I saw that there were no South Asian females doing it, so I thought it was a great opportunity,” Making other people laugh became her therapy.

“I was coming out of a really difficult time period and I wanted a way to cheer myself up and also cheer other people up,” she said in an interview with Buzzfeed. Singh began posting YouTube videos in 2010, while still a student, as a way of battling depression caused in part by her lack of enthusiasm for a conventional career. Growing up, she wanted to be a Power Ranger or a rapper, but her parents steered her towards a psychology degree at Toronto’s York University, with a view to becoming a counselor. Growing up, Singh was an extrovert, who “used to be that annoying kid at parties who would be at the center of a circle to get everyone’s attention,” she revealed in a 2016 interview with AOL. She and her older sister, Tina - also now a YouTuber - were given a traditional Sikh upbringing by their parents, Malwinder and Sukhwinder, who had emigrated to Canada from the Punjab. Lilly Saini Singh was born on September 26, 1988, and raised in Scarborough, Toronto. In 2019, she began hosting the late-night talk show A Little Late with Lilly Singh. Her main channel, IISuperwomanII - a moniker she often adopts online - has had more than 2 billion views and has more than 12 million subscribers her second channel, SuperwomanVlogs has more than 2.2 million subscribers. All have helped her become a huge hit on the video-sharing platform. She is known for her kooky, energetic mix of comedy sketches - which regularly feature Punjabi parents (both played by her), raps and skits that gently riff on ethnic and gender stereotypes - as well as her observational/motivational monologues and behind-the-scenes vlogs. Lilly Singh has turned her lifelong love of performing into YouTube alchemy.

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