Lydia the Bard

Lydia Buckley, also known as Lydia the Bard, is an English YouTuber specializing in music and singing. She is most popular for her various covers and parody songs.
==History==
Lydia Buckley has stated that she began singing since she was eight years old. She grew up a fan of Taylor Swift and , growing a love for music and theatre. She went on to attend the D&B Academy of Performing Arts and receive an ALCM Diploma in Musical Theatre Performance and Musical Theatre Teaching.https://www.lydiathebard.com/faq
Lydia created her YouTube channel on July 19, 2020. The name of the channel was based around her character when playing , a bard class. Though the early videos she uploaded are now unlisted, the first video still publicly available uploaded to her channel was uploaded August 20, 2020. It is a cover of the song "My Future" by Billie Eilish. Covers have remained a staple of Lydia's channel.
On July 30, 2022, Lydia uploaded a minor key cover of the song "Arabian Nights" from the 1992 Disney film Aladdin. In the video's description, Lydia wrote a brief story about how she envisioned the song to be sung by a version of the princess character Jasmine "if she took over Agrabah and turned into the villain". This video would mark the beginning of Lydia the Bard's most popular series of videos, "Disney Princesses but they're Villains", which usually feature minor key covers or parodies of Disney songs, usually ones by princesses or female leads, accompanied by stories and animations about how they became villains.
On July 1, 2023, Lydia the Bard uploaded her most popular video (as of February 2024), an entry in the "Disney Princesses but they're Villains" series. This video focuses on an alternate version of the 2021 Disney film Encanto, where the character Mirabel becomes a villain and sings an evil parody of the song "We Don't Talk About Bruno".
Lydia the Bard has also gone on to collaborate with other YouTube musicians such as Annapantsu, Caleb Hyles, Chloe Breez, Frostudio Chambersonic, and Cami-Cat, among others.
==Subscriber Milestones==
==Trivia==
*Lydia loves plants, and grew a "personal forest" during her free time during the COVID-19 pandemic.https://www.lydiathebard.com/about
*Lydia has a twin brother and two younger sisters.
*Lydia owns a dog named Toby.
*Outside of YouTube content creation, Lydia has stated that she enjoys theater performing, romance novels, and Dungeons & Dragons.
*Lydia is a certified singing coach and offers lessons online.
*The microphone she uses is a Neumenn TLM 102 Condenser Mic.
*Lydia revealed some fun facts in a 2023 QnA:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTGWWvmseOlcSqfDM3dXdaw/community?lb=UgkxQFVteE-aaAJkNfo8Nvpmv8yyBypER2Gb
**Her favorite Disney princess is Mulan from Mulan.
**Her favorite Disney villain is Mother Gothel from Tangled.
**Her favorite entry in the "Disney Princesses but they're Villains" series is "Meg's Villain Song".
**Her favorite animal is an otter.
**Her favorite animated movie is either The Prince of Egypt or Meet the Robinsons.
**One of her favorite songs is "Reckless Driving" by Lizzy Mcalpine.
==Gallery==
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Lydia300k.jpg|Mascot illustration
Vampirelydia.jpg|Illustration of a vampire version of her mascot persona
Chibilydia.jpg|Illustration of a chibi version of her mascot persona
==References==
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:English YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2020