![]() His contribution to the English language. It now sold more than 2 million downloads, according to Nielsen Music. In April, See You Again ended the 14-week run fo r Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' Uptown Funk! atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart. That day, Puth promised his friend's father he would write a song in his memory. "I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, 'I need to write a song for this guy, because he always told me I would have a No. ![]() Though associated with Furious 7 co-star Paul Walker, who died in a 2013 car crash before the film's completion, See You Again's hook also was inspired by a college friend of Puth's who died after being struck by a car. ![]() Seeing beyond the injury to her son's musical interest, Puth's mother began teaching him to play, which led to his studying in the Manhattan School of Music's precollege program and a full scholarship to study jazz piano at Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music. "I knocked a tooth out on the piano when I was 3 because I was trying to pull myself up to play it," says the New Jersey native, 23. The long road to See You Again, Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's massively successful rap ballad from Furious 7, began with Puth's broken tooth. ![]() This week in On the Verge, USA TODAY's spotlight on breakthrough artists, Brian Mansfield talks to singer-songwriter Charlie Puth.
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