Charlie Puth is adjusting to life in the fast lane. The 23-year-old newcomer has topped Billboard’s Hot 100 chart with his Paul Walker tribute song featured in the box office hit ‘Furious 7’.
But the young singer-songwriter has not let let success go to his head: “I knew that the movie company was looking for a song to have at the end of the movie, for Paul Walker. And I was like, ‘I’ll take a whack at it.’ I was like ‘They’re not going to choose mine, though. I’m just going to try just to show my publisher that I can work and I deserve to be signed.’ And I sent it to them and I got a response in like two minutes saying that ‘That’s it. That’s the one.’”
Written for rapper Wiz Khalifa, ‘See You Again’ has helped the blockbuster’s soundtrack debut at No. 1 on the Billboard’s 200 albums chart.
Puth says that while he was writing the song, he was thinking of a friend of his who, like actor Paul Walker, also died in a car crash: “It was a similar situation with my friend. He loved r
