Jake and Friends

Jake and Friends (Portuguese: Carlos e seus amigos) is a Brazilian children's electronic music project formed in 2018 by singer and rapper João Vieira (born 17 June 2002) and his two friends, Maria Gomes (born 19 July 2004) and Erik Rutte (born 2 January 2004). The band is best known for its use of Vocaloid technology and its exceptional style of costuming, using glowing contacts and wigs for Vieira's stage costume.

Vieira portrays the role of a 12-year-old boy, Jake Molson (Carlos), and his two friends, Suzie (Portuguese: Teresa), a fairy girl in a Japanese schoolgirl uniform, and Randy (Portuguese: O Robo), a robot. Jake is generally a happy-go-lucky boy going on adventures with his two friends.

The band uses the Vocaloid software to provide the voices of Suzie and Randy, whose real actors are not shown actually singing and instead pretend to lip-sync with the Vocaloid voices. The band is based in Brasilia.

On YouTube
Jake and Friends' official YouTube channel has over 5 million subscribers and 200 million total views. The channel uploads mainly music videos, covers of popular children's songs, gameplays and their Twisted Fairytales series.

His target audience is mainly 6-13 year-olds.

TV series
The trio have made a TV series about their characters, titled The Many Adventures of Jake and Friends, airing on Gloob since 17 December 2019. It features the eponymous Jake and his friends Suzie and Randy going on various adventures across the world while outsmarting various bullies along the way.

Trivia

 * Vieira says he is completely opposed to Elsagate. He believes that Elsagate is "ruining the face of YouTube Kids" and are "probably made up to lure children into sexuality". He has also made a video criticizing Elsagate, warning kids to avoid any and all Elsagate content.
 * Vieira does not support any political movement, but is opposed to far-right politics of any kind, especially Nazism.
 * The trio have actually gone on tour outside Brazil a few times, having held gigs in Uruguay since February 2020.