Julien Bam
German internet personality (born 1988)
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Julien Zheng Zheng Kho Budorovits (born 23 November 1988), better known as Julien Bam, is a German actor, singer, dancer and internet personality. He began his YouTube channel in 2013, and uploaded music videos and large-scale projects until his retirement in 2025.[1]
- Actor
- singer
- dancer
- YouTuber
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Bam in 2015 | |
| Born | 23 November 1988 Aachen |
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| Years active | 2013–2025 |
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| Subscribers | 6.21 million |
| Views | 1.7 billion |
| Last updated: 30 January 2026 | |
In 2015, Bam won the Bravo Otto award for Best Social Media Star.[2] In 2015 and 2016, he won the 1LIVE Krone awards for Best Video.[3][4] In 2016, he won the Webvideopreis Deutschland award for Person of the Year.[5] In 2017, he won the Webvideopreis Deutschland Golden Camera Digital Award.[2] During the 2017 German presidential election, he was a delegate of the Social Democratic Party to the Federal Convention.[6] He was the most-viewed German YouTuber in 2017, having uploaded six of the top ten most popular videos of the year as curated by Google, excluding traditional music videos.[7] In 2018, he joined the jury of the dance competition show Masters of Dance.[8] He won the Favorite Big Kid award at the 2018 and the 2020 Kids' Choice Awards.[9][10]
In 2019, Bam announced his intention to retire from his main YouTube channel, citing heavy workload and health problems.[11] He planned to make three final videos to conclude an ongoing video series, and eventually made 16 new videos until his retirement in 2025.[12] From 2020 to 2024, he starred as Sonic the Hedgehog in the German-language dubbings of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3.[13] In 2021, he starred as himself in the Netflix series Life's a Glitch.[14] In 2025, he donated his gaming channel JuTubeGaming to fellow YouTuber Sturmwaffel.[15]
Personal life
Bam was born in Aachen, but briefly raised in Singapore, where his mother, a Chinese Indonesian, was born. His father is from the Czech Republic, with Czech, Romanian and Russian ancestry. Bam has a brother, Shawn, who is also a video content creator.[16][17][18]
Between 2018 and 2019, Bam ran a dance school in Cologne, which closed down due to financial issues.[19][20]