Kellen Sarmiento was a four year old Filipino kid who became famous after his YouTube video performing the song “Teenage Dreams” in a warbler uniform. The video was posted on June 5, 2011 and right now it has already garnered a total of 1.9 million pageviews. He was popularly known in the US as “The Mini Warbler.”
In an interview shown in a local television station in the Philipppines. His mother Emily Mirador Sarmiento stated that his son was shy in performing the favorite song of his son when their relatives asked him to do so but when they were gone he do it all for himself.
The young kid, Kellen Sarmiento the latest addition to the list of famous Filipino YouTube sensation. His idol was the leader of the Warbler, Darren Kris who performs as the leader of the Warbler of the famous American show “Glee.”
Here is the video that goes viral: Kellen Sarmiento performing “Teenage Dreams”:
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Interview from Pacific Rim Video Press
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