Uwe Baltner
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About
Uwe Baltner is a German vlogger famous for his karaoke videos of popular songs he records in his car. Starting with lipsync videos posted on Musical.ly in April 2016, Baltner achieved social media breakout with Instagram karaoke videos recorded in his car which he started uploading in September 2018, accumulating over 1.2 million followers as of December 2019.
Online History
On April 8th, 2016, Uwe Baltner uploaded his first lipsync video to Musical.ly and to Instagram (shown below, left),[1] with more lipsync and karaoke videos recorded in his car uploaded in the following years (example shown below, center).[2][3] On September 3rd, 2018, Baltner uploaded his first karaoke video recorded in his car (shown below, right).[4][5] In the video, Baltner performs "Wishing Well" by Screaming Females; the video accumulated over 66,400 views and 1,100 likes in two years.
In the following years, Uwe Baltner uploaded karaoke videos he performed in his Fiat 500 car on a daily basis (examples shown below),[6][7] accumulating over 378,000 followers by August 26th, 2019,[8] over 460,000 followers by September 3rd, 2019,[9] and reaching 1.2 million followers as of December 13th, 2019.[10]
Starting in August 2019, a number of news outlets reported on Baltner and made interviews with him, including articles by OMR,[8] Capital Xtra,[9] Kerrrang[11] and Milk.xyz.[2]
Use in Memes
Starting in late September 2019, Uwe Baltner gained popularity in meme edits on Instagram. On September 28th, 2019, Instagram user notkinghill posted one of the earliest known edits featuring Baltner, gaining over 107,000 views and 18,800 likes in three months (shown below, left).[12] In the following days, multiple Instagram users posted more memes based on Baltner's videos, including notable posts by ins.step,[13] igotsilver[14] and retry.mp4[15] (examples shown below, center and right).
Personal Life
Uwe Baltner lives in Backnag, Germany. Baltner is a co-CEO of a small marketing agency. As of December 5th, 2019, Uwe Baltner was 56 years old.[2]
Baltner is married to Birgit Baltner and has three adult daughters. Uwe and Birgit Baltner own three labrador retrievers.
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External References
[1] Instagram – uwebaltner's Post
[2] Milk.xyz – YOUR WEEKEND PLAYLIST, COURTESY OF UWE BALTNER
[3] Instagram – uwebaltner's Post
[4] Instagram – uwebaltner's Post
[5] Instagram – uwebaltner's Post
[6] Instagram – uwebaltner's Post
[7] Instagram – uwebaltner's Post
[8] OMR – How a 50-something German used car karaoke to turn Rihanna, Chris Brown and Cypress Hill (and 378K others) into fans.
[9] Capital Xtra – Instagram Star Uwe Baltner Covered Megan Thee Stallion's 'Big Ole Freak' – And We Can't Cope
[10] Instagram – uwebaltner's Instagram
[11] Kerrang – GERMAN MAN GOES VIRAL WITH HIS WHOLESOME CAR KARAOKE
[12] Instagram – notkinghill's Post
[13] Instagram – ins.step's Post
[14] Instagram – igotsilver's Post
[15] Instagram – retry.mp4's Post
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