The Bee Family | |||||||||||||
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Created by | Andres Holer Burgos | ||||||||||||
Years active | 2013–present | ||||||||||||
Genre | Video blogs (Vlogs) | ||||||||||||
Subscribers | 10.4 million [1] | ||||||||||||
Total views | 3.23 billion [1] | ||||||||||||
Associated acts | Gabriela Bee | ||||||||||||
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Last updated: 18 August 2024 |
The Bee Family (formerly the Eh Bee Family) are Canadian internet personalities best known for their social media channels, which have over 33 million combined subscribers and well over 6 billion total views. [2] [3] They create skits and parodies to entertain a family-centered audience. They are a family of four members [4] consisting of the father (Andrés Burgos, known as Papa Bee; born in November 25, 1977 ), the mother (Rossana Burgos, known as Mama Bee; born in October 2, 1979 ), their son (Roberto Burgos, known as Mr Bee; born April 30, 2005 ), and their daughter (Gabriela Rossana Burgos, also known as Gabriela Bee or Miss Bee; born in September 9, 2006 ). [5] [6]
The Bee Family first started posting vines in January 2013. They became popular on Vine and made it their career. Their social media accounts include Vine, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. They have also starred in sponsored advertisements for such companies as Johnson & Johnson, Toyota, and Regal Cinemas and have also been featured in the New York Daily News , [7] on BuzzFeed, [8] Good Morning America , [9] Today.com, [10] and other media outlets. The family's social media was nominated for a Streamy Award in 2015 [11] and a Shorty Award in 2016. [12]
On July 15, 2020, the family changed their name from the "Eh Bee Family" to "The Bee Family".
On February 17, 2018, Gabriela Bee released her song "Sound in Color". [13] On September 1, 2018, she released another song, "Something More". [13] In April 2019, she posted a cover version of the Beatles’ 1968 hit song Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da on YouTube, appearing in the video as seven different musicians and performing all of the vocals herself. By January 2024, the song had earned more than 42 million views. [14] [15]
Gabriela Bee made her film debut in the 2022 horror drama film, The Bad Seed Returns , in the supporting role of "Lola", Emma's classmate and friend. [16]
In 2023, Gabriela first charted in the UK as the credited singer on the London-based rapper Prinz's single "Highs And Lows", a song which featured a sample of Bee's cover of the Walk Off The Earth track "I’ll Be There" from 2019. [17] [18] [19] On 6 October 2023, Gabriela Bee released a song that she wrote, "Look at You Now", dedicated to her younger self. [20] On 1 December the same year, she released another song that she wrote, "Maybe", dedicated to her best friend. [21]
"Too Much Heaven" is a song by the Bee Gees, which was the band's contribution to the "Music for UNICEF" fund. They performed it at the Music for UNICEF Concert on 9 January 1979. The song later found its way to the group's thirteenth original album, Spirits Having Flown. It hit No. 1 in both the US and Canada. In the United States, the song was the first single out of three from the album to interrupt a song's stay at #1. "Too Much Heaven" knocked "Le Freak" off the top spot for two weeks before "Le Freak" returned to #1 again. "Too Much Heaven" also rose to the top three in the UK. In the US, it would become the fourth of six consecutive No. 1s, equaling the record set by Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and the Beatles for the most consecutive No. 1 songs. The six Bee Gee songs are "How Deep Is Your Love", "Stayin' Alive", "Night Fever", "Too Much Heaven", "Tragedy" and "Love You Inside Out". The songs spanned the years of 1977, 1978 and 1979.
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