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It’s 7 a.m. in Hawaii and Hyram Yarbro hasn’t slept a wink. The skin care whizz has been up all night editing a collaboration video for his YouTube channel, Hyram, that he’s “really, really excited about.” All-nighters such as these are mere child’s play for Yarbro, who grew up working on a cattle ranch deep in Arizona, and used to work upwards of 85 hours a week at various service jobs. Now, at just 24 years old, he’s at the helm of a disruptive skin-care subculture revolutionizing the beauty industry.
Langman says you can find bandmates in unconventional ways.
“Me and Ross started connecting on Facebook,” he says, adding that he didn t know many kids who listened to indie music. Guitarist Ross Monteith joined the band in 2016 thanks to that online interaction.
The power of social media helped the band in other ways, as well.
“Reed Carson out of Chicago did our Hungry People music video. He hit us up on Instagram,” Langman notes. And the band had professional photos posted to their social-media accounts that “were taken by a college student, Ellie Thorne. She first reached out online. We got an awesome photoshoot out of it.”