I have been in this industry since 2014 when I started uploading silly video's of me dancing.
In 2018, I became a fulltimw youtuber- uploading a video a day for a few month's.
After I became monetized & I moved from Florida back to Michigan, I started focusing more on my modeling again in 2019.
Photoshoot after photoshoot, brand deal after brand deal, magazine publication after magazine publication; I started growing a fan base on Instagram.
I lost track after my 50th magazine publication for my modeling and my 20th for writing. That same year I started writing for Vivid magazine (Interviewing other's & writing articles), & Mora modeling magazine (Writing about fashion & trends).
I also wrote a 54 page science fiction screenplay on my cell phone, through Microsoft Word.
I them submitted it to the London City Film Awards and surprisingly, I won "Best screenplay".
In 2020 the Pandemic hit the entire World. It changed everything.
I, like all of you, was stuck at home wondering "What next?" But then I remembered 'If I am stuck at home, so are is everyone else... in a nutshell Hollywood was stuck at home too.
So, I started writing celebrities and getting to know my fans more.
Some of those celebs actually wrote me back.
I used the Pandemic to network.
In 2021, when the World started to re-open from the four walls we were all trapped behind for month's, I wrote & recorded my first song. "Royaltea" by Andrea Jenkins & Zentazy. An upbeat pop-damce-edm song.
I did photoshoot after photoshoot.
I entered modeling competitions and ended up on a local radio station.
Articles were published about me through some really big news outlets.
In the Summer of 2021, I stopped everything.
I stayed on social media & engaged with my fans, but I stopped modeling, my plans to make more music.
At the end of 2023, after a very toxic marriage that I was finally getting out of, I made another song. It was released in January of 2024.
"Anymore" by Andrea Jenkins Featuring Jesaiah Rae. A pop-jazzy-hip-hop type of song.
But then "Royaltea" started streaming again.
As of today (March 1st 2024) It has been on 6 different radio stations, from France, to the UK, to Mexico and here in the US in Chicago.
Over 250,000 streams across all platforms.
Today I signed up for Chart Metric, a site that logs all activity across the internet for each artist.
It said my fanbase is 1.74 Million people & that people have engaged with my music and content over 735,000 times! (Both in the past month) Wow. Seriously. I am still in disbelief and I wanted to write this and say thank you. To everytime one of you listened to one of my songs, old video's of me on Tiktok, Instagram, or YouTube. For every purchase of one of my songs- you are all truly amazing!
I am very thankful and beyond blessed to have the fans I have. Alot of you have been around since 2018 or before!
It has been and will continue to be awesome growing as a musician, model and soon to be author- with all of you! & if you are new to the "Andrea Train" (lol) Introduce yourself on my socials! I love interacting with my fans!
Thank you all so much & I am excited for new things coming this year & I hope you all will enjoy these things as much as I have enjoyed creating them for you!
God bless,
Andrea Jenkins
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