Charles Otto Puth Jr. (born December 2, 1991) is an American Singer, Songwriter,and Record Producer. His initial exposure came through the viral success of his song videos uploaded to YouTube.
Puth shot to fame earlier this year when he teamed up with Khalifa to write “See You Again” for “Furious 7.” The song was dedicated to the franchise’s late star Paul Walker, who tragically died in a car accident in November 2013 before filming for “Furious 7” was complete.
Sitting down to play, Puth said that the words “it’s a long day” just came out of his mouth. He instantly liked the feel and quickly made his way into the vocal booth. “And I just blurted out ‘when I see you again,’” he said. Then with Frank ten minutes later, the two of them had written the chorus and sent it off to their publishing company – followed by everyone at Atlantic records, and finally by the Fast and Furious people.
Puth went to Atlantic to write this song for someone else to sing, and finally sang the chorus of “See You Again”.