Kurt Caz – Detailed Biography

Kurt Caz is a popular vlogger and travel YouTuber.

He has over 4 million subscribers on his eponymous YouTube channel.

Introduction-

Kurt Caz was born in April 1998 to a German father and a South African mother into a middle-class family in South Africa.

He grew up there and hails from the picturesque Jeffreys Bay town near Plettenberg Bay.

Kurt’s father was an adventurer, traveller, street fighter and a brown belt judo master. He taught boxing in a police academy in East Germany. Thanks to him, Kurt learnt fighting at a young age and has been training boxing since 4.

Kurt has dual citizenship of South Africa and Germany and his mother tongue is South African English.

He has two siblings, a brother and a sister.

Wanderlust-

The teenage Kurt, along with his father and brother, travelled around southern Africa.

This was his first proper trip and thanks to this, he fell in love with travelling.

Kurt grew up in an environment which required him to keep his head on a swivel. This came in handy when he started visiting dangerous places.

He also developed foresight, learnt to read people and their body language. Thanks to these, he has been able to safely travel in dangerous places.

Europe & MMA-

Kurt moved to Germany at 15 and did his schooling there.

At the time, he didn’t speak German.

He used to work as a day laborer at a construction site after school hours along with his father.

Kurt despised school and dropped out of it.

He then searched for jobs in Germany but didn’t like jobs there. So, he moved to the United Kingdom.

His UK friends suggested he work as a plumber but as it didn’t work out, Kurt moved back to Germany.

Then, he moved to Southern France and started working on boats and lived there for a year.

His French employer was into MMA, had a black belt in judo and a brown belt in jiu-jitsu. He got Kurt into MMA.

Kurt trained in MMA for five years and became proficient in kickboxing, jiu-jitsu and wrestling but stopped it after becoming a vlogger.

YouTube-

Kurt started his eponymous channel on 13 March 2016.

In his first video, he was seen searching for a kitchen job in London. This video is currently unavailable.

Even before starting on YouTube, the young Kurt used to shoot random videos with his brother and friends and edit them on the laptop.

Shooting videos has been his creative outlet and he wanted to grow up to make a career in it.

He learnt video editing on his own.

Struggles-

Kurt shot some videos in Italy and other countries but they didn’t get decent views as they weren’t engaging.

He even shared his videos with all his Facebook contacts but this too didn’t help.

Even after working on his YouTube channel for a year, Kurt couldn’t crack YouTube.

He used to work as a garden boy for a cleaning company in Berlin, Germany. His job, which he didn’t like, involved cutting grass and cleaning staircases.

Kurt continued working on his YouTube channel even at the time.

He returned to South Africa after his father passed away and started working on his uncle’s farm.

Becoming viral-

As the farm job frustrated him, Kurt decided to quit it and start travelling and vlogging.

He travelled to Egypt with his savings and shot a few videos there which went viral.

Kurt’s first video to cross a million views is “$4 Haircut and Facial”. It was published on 25 October 2020.

This video became viral as Egyptian influencers shared this video on Facebook. Some YouTubers also shared this and Samy, a German rapper, shared this on Twitch.

His other videos of Egypt, “Avoid This Man! Cairo Market Scam” and “Avoid These Scammers At The Pyramids!” also became viral by crossing a million views.

These made him a successful YouTuber and he never looked back.

Currently, Kurt has over 4 million subscribers on his channel.

He sells merchandise under the brand Conquest.

Kurt shoots videos with a Sony α7 IV camera.

He has a manager, Martin. Kurt’s brother, Tom, helps him as a cameraman.

Inspirations-

Initially, Kurt realized that his videos weren’t performing well because they weren’t interesting.

He got inspired by the videos of Harald Baldr and bald and bankrupt and started following their style of making videos interesting before developing his own style of making videos.

Brother’s support-

Kurt survived only on a few hundred dollars while travelling in Egypt, Mexico and Colombia. At the time, his brother extended financial support to him.

He used to also work as an online editor for some rappers but later as his videos gained traction, he became a full-time YouTuber.

After hitting a million subscribers on YouTube, Kurt felt that he had accomplished everything and grew depressed as he felt that he had nothing more to work towards.

But thanks to his love for video production, Kurt decided to continue working on his channel.

Adrenaline junkie-

Kurt is an adrenaline junkie and loves travelling to dangerous places. He finds the white picket fence neighbourhoods to be boring and depressing.

He regularly ends up in adventurous places but shows only a portion of it on his channel.

Tidbits-

• Kurt knows Spanish, German and Afrikaans.
• He is 6.06 feet tall and loves Peruvian, South African and English food.

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