Blesiv

Background

Alex Guzman was born in Reno, Nevada on October 20, 2001. Alex and Gala Rivas, his parents, raised him aling with his brothers Harry, and Henry. He attended Sparks High School which is situated in Sparks, Nevada. Guzman was initially introduced to social media by his cousin, who often urged him to join him in his Facebook live and YouTube videos. Later, he became famous for publishing lip-sync videos on TikTok, formerly known as musical.ly. He presently has over 7.2 million followers thanks to his hilarious lip-sync videos to the songs of popular musicians. He’s also an Instagram sensation, having over 1.7 million followers.

Guzman decided to start his own YouTube channel to upload amusing videos after being inspired by his cousin. He joined YouTube in May 2015 but didn’t start publishing videos until July 2017, after gaining a following on other sites. His videos on the popular video-sharing platform were largely challenge and reaction videos, as well as compilations of his previous musical.ly videos. His fan base from other platforms migrated to YouTube, assisting in the rapid growth of his channel.

Guzman goes by the name Blesiv on all of his social media accounts. He explained in a YouTube video posted on March 14, 2019, that he used to play games with the gamer tag Xander G, but had to come up with a new tag after being asked into a clan to try out the Call of Duty hunt and destroy game mode. He needed to come up with something unique because everyone in the clan used Vexa as a prefix to their gamer tag. He was particularly fond of the song ‘6 God,’ which had hands folded in prayer on the cover. He saw the image as a request for blessings, so he combined the term Bless with his favorite number, four. He wanted to use the tag Bless4 but it had already been taken, so he used Roman numerals instead, creating BlessIV. He changed his alias to Blesiv when short gamer tags became popular in the P.S.3 community. Guzman was dating Instagram model Hailey Orona at the time. The two had an on-again, off-again romance, which ended in a messy breakup due to their incessant disagreements.