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Joe Keery, the actor who plays the endearing Steve Harrington on ‘Stranger Things,’ is now a music star
The actor has had a music career under the name Djo for years, but it wasn’t until a few weeks ago that one of his songs, ‘End of Beginning,’ became a mass phenomenon after going viral on TikTok
Joe Keery
Joe Keery at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California.
Jamie McCarthy (WireImage/ Getty)
Elena Mu?oz
Elena Mu?oz
Madrid - APR 09, 2024 - 00:13 CEST
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His name may not ring a bell, but his face is more than familiar to millions of people. Joe Keery, 31, rose to fame playing the character of Steve Harrington in Stranger Things, first as a secondary character and then becoming more central in the plot until he became one of the popular Netflix series’ main characters. With his role on the show, Keery experienced what it was like to be part of a phenomenon with global appeal. Now, seven years after debuting in the series, he is once again achieving success at the highest levels, this time thanks to his work as a singer. Keery has been making music since 2019 under the name Djo and now many have discovered the actor from one of the most famous series in recent television history is behind the alias. And it’s all because of the song, End of Beginning, which went viral on TikTok; today it is very difficult not to come across the tune there.
The song in question is a track from the album Decide, which was released in 2022 and rediscovered by social media users a month ago. Thereafter, the song shot up the music charts at a dizzying pace and has come to hold the number one spot on Spotify’s global list; the song has racked up over 272 million plays on the music platform (to get an idea, the platform’s next most listened-to song does not exceed 97 million). To put that into perspective, it should be
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