an hour and a half each day. After six months of the daily ritual, he got his big break when he posted “Stuck in the Middle” on TikTok last August.The video, which showed him singing along to his soon-to-be hit in his car with the caption “if this gets 1000 likes I’ll put this song out,” went viral, helping Verdes accumulate some 1.7 million followers on the platform.
The track has since been streamed more than 67 million times on Spotify, where he now has over 6.5 million monthly listeners, and Verdes has been signed to Arista Records.
If this gets 1000 likes I’ll put this song out.“The only reason I’m doing the thing that I’m doing is because I think life is too long, and everyone’s trying to trick you that life is short,” the 25-year-old.
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