Career
Goot grew rapidly through the channel lists YouTube Top 200 with his covers of famous songs and his original songs such as his song "Sensitivity". His channel, GootMusic, is one among the over 1000 registered with more than two million subscribers. He plays acoustic guitar, bass guitar, piano, drums and other instruments.
Goot began recording music in 2004 at the age of 16 and since then has gained popularity from his profiles on various social network sites, as well as his own website, from which he distributes some of his music and provides news and regular updates.
His time is almost all spent in his home studio self-producing all audio and video for his releases, or touring the world. Goot released his first studio album In Your Atmosphere, which was made possible by his fans via an extremely successful Kickstarter campaign.
He is the example of celebrity in the YouTube age. Self-driven, self-promoting, aside from his musicianship, relying on modern messaging and technology to get heard.
His YouTube channel has about 2,000,000 subscribers and his videos have been viewed over 330 million times.
His celebrity rank has fallen and he is now ranked in the 400"s among subscribers and 800"s in views. According to Goot, his inspiration is to show the love he has for music He further states that he "had no plan B".
After he recorded his music as well as videos for many years in his home studio in Poughkeepsie, he moved in early February 2015, immediately after his European tour in January 2015, to Los Los Angeles
Goot has made several videos in collaboration with other artists such as We Are the In Crowd, Kurt Hugo Schneider, Megan Nicole, Sam Tsui Goot has released four volumes of with some of the versions of his channel on YouTube. As of July 3, 2015, Goot is engaged to his girlfriend of two years, Elle Fowler.
He proposed on the beach, wrote the song "Unstoppable" about her, and played it during the proposal.