Khaby Lame The Secret, Incredible, and Inspiring Story of (Khaby Lame) | Infomist gurru
Lame was born in Senegal on 9 March 2000. His family moved to a public housing complex in Chivasso, Italy, when he was one year old. He has three siblings. He studied in Italian schools, however at the age of fourteen, his parents decided to send him to study temporarily in a Quranic school near Dakar. Lame worked as a CNC machine operator at a factory near Turin, before getting laid off in March 2020.
After he was laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lame began posting on TikTok.His early videos showed him dancing and watching video games, and were mostly filmed in Italian and included Italian subtitles. He rose to popularity with his video responses in the form of TikTok's "duet" and "stitch" features to videos depicting overly complicated "life hacks", in which he performs the same task in a simple way, without saying anything. In April 2021, he surpassed Gianluca Vacchi as the most-followed Italian TikToker, and, in July 2021, he surpassed Addison Rae to become the second most-followed TikToker. In August 2021, Lame appeared as a co-star for Juventus F.C.'s announcement of Manuel Locatelli. In September 2021, he attended the Venice Film Festival as a special guest for the first screening of French film Lost Illusions by Xavier Giannoli. In January 2022, Lame signed a multi-year partnership with Hugo Boss and was featured in the #BeYourOwnBoss campaign.
On June 22, 2022, Lame became TikTok’s most followed creator, surpassing Charli D'Amelio with 142.1 million followers.
