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Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, but moved with his family to Australia when he was age two.

Popular YouTuber.

Was signed to EMI Australia (a Universal Music label) on his eighteenth birthday, June 5, 2013, but he kept it a secret until a year later.

His father is from a Jewish family and his mother converted to Judaism before marrying his father, as they agreed to raise their children in Judaism.

Musically, he is primarily known as a singer, but he also plays piano and bass guitar.

Made his film acting debut in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), portraying the childhood James Logan, later to be known as just "Logan," and better known as "Wolverine," portrayed as an adult by another Australian, Hugh Jackman.

As of 2018, he lives in Los Angeles, California, USA.

He was raised in Perth, Western Australia, where his family settled after relocating from Johannesburg, Union of South Africa in 1997, and where the family continued to live until 2016, when they moved to Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria.

His public performing music career started on the local Channel Seven Perth Telethon, where he sang in 2006-2008, including a duet with Guy Sebastian, the winner of Australian Idol (2003) 2003.

He is one of four siblings, with two brothers and one sister, Steele, Tyde and Sage.

He attended Carmel School, a private Modern Orthodox school in Perth which offered religious and cultural Jewish education as well as conventional secular education. Founded in 1959, it is the only Jewish day school in Western Australia (from the school's founding, continuing at least through 2018). He attended there until 2009, after which he continued his education as a distance pupil.

He was raised in a Modern Orthodox Jewish family.

His parents are Laurelle Mellet (a stay at home mom/homemaker) and Shaun Mellet (a Real Estate agent).

Due in large part to his huge YouTube and other social media presence, Time Magazine (USA) named him as one of the "25 Most Influential Teens of 2014.".

In 2018, with his partner/boyfriend Jacob Bixenman, he became a dog owner of a Staffordshire Bull Terrier named Nash.

Troye was a finalist on "Star Search 2007.".