RecD

Thomas Hart Jr., known online as RecD, is an American YouTuber and musician. He is known for singing lyrical adaptations of the music from various video games, ranging from indie titles like Friday Night Funkin', Deltarune, Pizza Tower, and Undertale, to classical game series like Kirby, Pokémon, Mario, and Sonic, as well as composing original songs based on these games.
==History==
RecD created his YouTube channel back on June 8, 2007, where he initially focused on animations. The first video he uploaded came out on July 11, 2007, titled "Maze Craze,"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H8B8sDzKnI a Lego brickfilm about a Professor searching for a gem in a labyrinth. He continued uploading sporadically, although the focus slowly shifted from stop-motion to digital animation, and from animation as a whole to music, most of which was based on video games. In September 2015, he set out on one of his first more major projects, UNDERSONG, a musical of completely original numbers based on Undertale. The first song he completed, "Kill Or Be Killed,"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJmQN7NA52s was released on September 25th, mere days after the game's release. It remained his primary focus for the coming years, although it sadly didn't garner much attention at first.
2018 marked the year he and UNDERSONG first began getting noticed, due to the rising success of two other series he was working on; Kirby Vs. Dedede, a collection of lyricizations of songs from the Kirby series, revolving around a largely reimagined version of the series' plot, and Deltarune The Musical IMSYWU (short for I'm Making So You'll Watch UNDERSONG,) a similar adaptation of Deltarune Chapter 1's soundtrack, although while remaining more faithful to the original game's story. His cover of The World Revolving,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkzO-nxsKCA the first song to come out of the latter series, was arguably his breakthrough song, as it soon became his first video to surpass 1 million views, and Jevil became a frequently recurring character on the channel. He continued to see huge growth throughout 2019 and 2020 as he continued working on UNDERSONG, Deltarune The Musical IMSYWU, and Kirby Vs. Dedede, while also still posting one-off songs. The most notable of these by far was "Furret Walk,"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wTDsCplARY a song that had become a meme in the Pokémon community, which had viewcounts rivaling those of the aforementioned Jevil's videos, to the point that his 50K Subscriber Special was a duet between Furret and Jevil.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN3fCn2FR-A
In early 2021, at a point when he had exhausted most of the tracks he could cover from Kirby and Deltarune, he started what would go on to become his most famous series, Friday Night Funkin' the Musical. Like the original game, the series quickly blew up, and thanks to the game's vast modding community leaving no shortage of music work with, as well as the huge fan-demand, it is still on-going, although the frequency of uploads has slowed down due to the increasing complexity of the videos. His most viewed video is his cover of Whitty's songs, one of the first major modded characters to appear in the community.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phtyYzhU4oE 
==References==
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2007