
As he grew, Bieber taught himself to play the piano, drums, guitar, and trumpet.In late 2007, when he was twelve, Bieber sang Ne-Yo's "So Sick" for a local singing competition in Stratford and placed second.Mallette posted a video of the performance on YouTube for their family and friends to see. She continued to upload videos of Bieber singing covers of various R&B songs, and Bieber's popularity on the site grew.
While searching for videos of a different singer, Scooter Braun, a former marketing executive of So So Def, clicked on one of Bieber's videos by accident.Impressed, Braun tracked down the theater Bieber was performing in, located Bieber's school, and finally contacted Mallette. Mallette was reluctant; she remembered praying, "God, I gave him to you. You could send me a Christian man, a Christian label!"However, after praying with her church elders and receiving their encouragement, she permitted Braun to fly Bieber, then 13,to Atlanta, Georg

His debut single, "One Time", was released worldwide during 2009, and charted within the top 30 in over ten countries. It w
