Madilyn Bailey

Madilyn Bailey (born 2 September 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, and YouTuber who makes YouTube covers of popular songs. She also goes by her alias Maddy. She first became popular on YouTube for her unique music videos that remixed hip hop songs into pop covers.

She signed with PlayOn in France, a label of Warner Music Group, and has toured the United States and Canada with the American cover band Boyce Avenue.

Madilyn Bailey was born as Madilyn Wold on 2 September 1992, in Boyceville, Wisconsin, to Heidi Wold and Greg Wold. She has five siblings: Jordan (older brother), Alex (younger sister), Caden (younger brother), Isaac (adopted younger brother), and Hayley (adopted younger sister).

She has been playing music from a young age. It also helped that her father, who works with an advertising firm, can play the guitar and her mother can sing. She began writing songs since about the age of 7, and then picked up the piano, followed by the drums and then the guitar. She actually was interested in playing drums from the start, however, her music teacher wouldn't teach her drums until she had spent two years learning the piano. The first song she learned was a song by the Australian Christian rock band Newsboys. (Trivia: Newsboys is headed by Peter Furler, who is the cousin of singer Sia).

Bailey graduated from Boyceville High School, Boyceville, Wisconsin, in 2011. At the school, she played in the marching band. Earlier, she attended Grahams Elementary School.

Before becoming an artist, Bailey worked as a certified nursing assistant. She is dyslexic.

She began her career shortly before graduating, by covering popular songs and posting them on her YouTube channel, which she started in May 2008. As of now, August 2020, her channel has over 7.8 million subscribers. She is also popular on Instagram with over 795,000 followers, and on Twitter, with over 188,000 followers.

Bailey has stated that she has been inspired by Michelle Branch and [Kina Grannis](Kina Grannis).

In 2012, Bailey joined Keep Your Soul Records to assist with the production of her songs; subsequently, she moved to Los Angeles in 2013 to pursue a career in music. The same year, she toured the United States and Canada with Boyce Avenue – a Sarasota, Florida-based cover band by brothers Alejandro Luis Manzano, Daniel Enrique Manzano, and Fabian Rafael Manzano. She later described the experience by saying, "My live show has improved immensely in the few years since then and I am more than excited to hit the road and play the new songs from the 'Wiser' EP with my newly assembled band."

In 2015, her rendition of the song "Titanium" by David Guetta and Sia, gained airplay on Virgin Radio in France, as a result of which, she gained a huge fan base in Europe, specifically France and Belgium. She also signed a recording contract with Warner Music Group's PlayOn in France. The song and its follow-up, a cover of Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive," charted well in France and Belgium.

In October 2015, Bailey released an album of covers in France, entitled Muse Box. The 12-track album includes Kings of Leon's Use Somebody, Tears for Fears' Mad World, Fleetwood Mac' Dreams, Cher's Believe, and Taylor Swift's Bad Blood. One of the singles, "Rude," features German musician/comedian Flula Borg. 

In early 2016, she covered the song "Believe" by Cher. Later, the same year, she released her Wiser – a five-track EP containing her original material exclusively. Also in 2016, her cover of David Guetta's "Titanium" was featured on the Australian TV series Wanted.

In April 2018, Bailey was chosen as Elvis Duran's Artist of the Month. She was featured on NBC's Today show hosted by Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford, broadcast nationally in the United States on April 20, 2018, where Bailey performed a live version of her original single "Tetris". The same year, her original song "Drunk on a Feeling" was featured on the American action-drama TV series Station 19, starring Jaina Lee Ortiz, Grey Damon, and Barrett Doss.

Over the years, Bailey has covered songs by a wide range of artists including David Guetta, Sia, Daddy Yankee, Luis Fonsi, Sean Paul, Bruno Mars, Anne-Marie, Ed Sheeran, and Sia.

Baily married her husband James Benrud on August 22, 2014, at the age of 22, in Wisconsin. Benrud is also a musician and in addition, serves as her manager. She made the announcement in an Instagram post.

• Once, she participated in a Guitar Center Singer/Songwriter Competition and won.
• When asked "What job do you think you would have gone into?", she answered, "Probably I think a forensic scientist for like maybe in a lab or something like that."
• On her decision to rewrite hip hop songs, she has said, "...my brother was leaving for Iraq and his favorite artist was Eminem, and so I thought, why not do an Eminem song for him? Like I had no idea what I was doing so I took the song and I just switched up the melody and made the lyrics clean, and then I posted on YouTube and it went pretty viral."