Ryan Higa

Ryan Higa: Biography in Details

Who is Ryan Higa?

Ryan Higa is an American YouTuber, Comedian, and Actor. He is also known as ‘nigahiga’ because of his YouTube username by which ‘Niga’ means “rant” in Japanese whereas ‘Higa’ is after his last name. He is mainly known for his comedy videos. Besides making comedy videos he has made music videos and Short movies.

Recently, he joined a K-pop band with David Choi, Philip Wang, Jun Sung Ahn, and Justin Chon and released a Korean Music Video ‘Dong Saya Dae’ which has 13 million views.

What is the birth name of Ryan Higa?

Ryan Higa was born in Hilo, Hawaii on June 6, 1990. His birth name is Ryan Higa. Ryan was raised by his mother and father. His mother’s name is Luci Higa whereas his father’s name is Wendell Higa. There is no detailed information on their occupation but his mother is seen in some of his videos. Ryan has an older brother as well and his name is Kyle Higa.

He is of American nationality and his ethnicity is Japanese. Ryan was a sporty kid oh his childhood he used to play Judo till he was in Fifth grade and he has a black belt as well. His childhood was full of competition because of his brother, they studied at the same school and his brother was a good Judo player.

Ryan Higa: Education History

Ryan Higa was a very energetic child, he holds black belt rank at the age of 5 during his studies till fifth grade. After fifth grade in middle school, he moved to another school where he had to do a placement test which resulted in him skipping grades due to the placement test.

After finishing school Ryan moved to Waiakea High school, in high school he played wrestling. He graduated from High school in 2008 and he won first place in Wrestling and second place in Judo.

He went to Nevada to attend UNLV for a degree in nuclear medicine but that didn’t last long. Ryan was stressed out because he was never interested in nuclear medicine so he dropped out after 1 semester and gave full focus to his YouTube career.

Ryan Higa: Professional Life and Career

Ryan first started to make lip sync videos with his friend Sean Fujiuoshi in mid-2006 while they were attending High school at Waiakea. In 2007 Ryan Higa, Sean Fujiuoshi, Tim Enos. Ryan Villaruel, Kyle Chun, and Tarynn Nago started making comedy videos and they started YouTube name ‘Yabo Productions’, ‘How to’ series being their first release.

On Christmas Eve of 2008 their most popular videos ‘How to Be Emo’ and ‘How to Be gangster’ were removed due to a copyright strike. On Jan 21, 2009, Nigahiga’s channel was temporarily suspended and forced to remove some of the copyrighted videos by which he had to remove his lip sync videos.

Ryan Higa had a rough time from 2008 to 2011 because of copyright claims. He made a second channel as well named ‘HigaTV’ on which he uploads his Vlogs and other daily life videos.

Ryan Higa: Achievement and Awards

Ryan Higa got nominated many times, he got nominated for ‘The Streamy Awards’ 3 times. In 2013 he got nominated for ‘Best First-Person Series’ and ‘Audience Choice Personality of the Year’, In 2015 he got nominated for ‘Best Comedy Series’, Similarly, in 2016 he got nominated for ‘Best Comedy Series. He got nominated for ‘Yong Hollywood Awards’ as well as for ‘Viral Superstar’.

Besides that nomination, he got awarded 2 silver play buttons, 2 gold play buttons, and 1 diamond play button from YouTube for the super passing a certain number of subscribers on his main channel as well as his side channel. He got the Black belt in Judo as well.

Ryan Higa: Salary and Net Worth

Ryan Higa has not revealed his current salary. However, his net worth is $2 million, acquired from his years working as a YouTuber, Actor.

Ryan Higa: Rumors and Controversies

There are no Rumors and Controversies about Ryan Higa up till now.

How tall is Ryan Higa?

Talking about his body measurement, Ryan has a height of 5 feet and 8,5 inches with a slim body structure. Additionally, he weighs around 69 kg or 152 lbs. Furthermore, his hair color is black and spiky and his eye color is black.

Ryan Higa: Social Media Profile

Ryan Higa is active on social media. He has a huge number of followers on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. He has around 2 million thirty-nine thousand followers on Facebook, 2.04 Million followers on Twitter and 2.5 million followers on Instagram, and 21 million subscribers on his Youtube channel.

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