La Divaza
Quick Facts
Biography
Pedro Luis Joao Figueira Álvarez (June 18, 1998), better known as La Divaza, is a Venezuelan YouTuber. La Divaza is the second Youtuber in Venezuela to reach one million subscribers after Dross.
Biography
He was born in the city of Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela, and studied at "Instituto Escuela Maracay" in which graduated in 2015. He began producing videos on YouTube at the end of 2012, where he described the situation in his home country. His character, "La Divaza" caused controversy nationally and internationally for the peculiar personality it presented and the content of his videos. To this day he has become an icon and a phenomenon on social media.
In 2011, Pedro began making videos of the social networking site Habbo, but stopped in 2012 when his channel called La Divaza flourished.
"La Divaza" is Pedro's alter ego. "A diva." It is a varied channel as far as content is concerned, ranging from vlogs, gameplays and reviews to annual awards like the VMAs, EMAs and the Grammys, to more serious topics of social awareness.
His is Jose Gregorio Santos (La Jose) who lives with him in Mexico City. He has made several appearances in his channel when he lived in Venezuela but because of the distance, only contact via social networks. He is currently touring and performing for his millions of fans throughout the world and he has collaborated with many famous Youtubers such as Mariale, Alejo Igoa, Kimberly Loaiza and Juan Pablo Jaramillo. He got six million of subscribers in YouTube.
In December 2017, he released a song as a part of a viral YouTube challenge called "Roast Yourself" (like the challenge itself) that was accompanied by amusic video, promoting her alter-ego. On week later, the song was available on iTunes, reaching the top on Mexico and others Latin American countries. The music video got one million likes in 24 hours and more than six millions views on YouTube. As of June 2018, the music video had 70 million views and 2,5 million likes, making it the most successful song ever by a YouTuber. He performed the song live at the 2018 MTV Millennial Awards, where he hosted the show alongside Chilean singer Mon Laferte, in which he won two awards, there are: MIAW Icon of the Year and Rostizado del Año.