Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer It’s something of a marvel to trace the trajectory of Troye Sivan’s pop career. Only a decade ago, the singer-songwriter sat poised in front of his camera, the “most nervous” he’d ever been in his life.
He was coming out to his YouTube followers in a video that now has more than nine million views, three years after he’d told his family he was gay.
What viewers didn’t know is that it was also a surreptitious way to get ahead of a potential issue with EMI Australia, with whom he was negotiating for a record deal and feared would tell him to stay in the closet.
Instead, EMI sent him a congratulatory email, marking the first step towards becoming one of the music industry’s foremost gay male pop stars.
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