It was in 2012 when ‘Peter the Eel ‘ gained internet fame thanks to his song ‘The Style of Peter the Eel’.
However, although the video in which he appears dancing with a special step that was made viral, the YouTube star got caught up in it scandals over the years.
Peter de Anguilla tells this from his home in Miami managed to overcome the problems of the past, remarried and currently works in a bakery to support his family and raise money to re-record songs.
Fame is fleeting and Peter had to learn it abruptly when other content creators’ videos were more relevant, leaving him in the dark. Peter fell into a depression knowing he was a person again “common and current “ and he had to look for work to support his family.
This is how he talked about how hard it was to become famous and have conventional jobs:
“Before everyone was by my side and now no one writes to me, nobody tells me anything. I fell into the depression when I had to face reality, which was no longer so much Peter The Anguilla, but I had to work… I was shocked by the reality because a lot of young people went there (to their job as a dispatcher in a hamburger chain) and said: ‘You are a crack to work here’; every time they told me it shocked me because I wanted to continue with the character, but I couldn’t, I didn’t have a production, a record label “, He narrated for the program ‘De Primera Mano’.
But in 2015 got into prison accused of domestic violence and again in 2017 for possession of illegal substances.