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Speaker

"A future world leader" - BBC Television, Politics Today

"America's Prince William" - Shalom News

"That's the funniest speech I ever saw." - Boris Johnson

"Austin turned the ancient art of debating into Rock Star status. I actually saw papers blow off a podium with a gust of wind, caused by a single, unified laugh of the hundreds of people in the hall." - The Robinson Twins

Author

Donald Trump and Mark Stein's publisher, Regnery, is currently working with Austin on a book they hope to be a New York Time's best-seller.

Austin has been published in several magazines and newspapers recently - his critique of education was called a "star piece" by Maria Burganova, the editor of "Home of Culture" in Moscow.

Media

Austin has appeared in countless media all over the world - he has almost never been on a show in which he was not asked back. Recently a reporter for Moscow Music Television said her interview with him was "the best interview I've ever done". This is a common type of comment - even jaded crew members who've "seen it all" regularly come up and say such things as he moved them emotionally, or reporters say he gave the funniest interview they can remember, or perhaps the most sincere. He is a ratings booster, and call getter, a long remembered and loved guest. He has true star power, yet prefers only to do media appearances when he feels it can do real good - he likes to bring attention to the issues he feels strongest about, but prefers not to have the focus on himself.

Television

Austin turned two television appearances into a contract to star in his own network television show.

Austin became disappointed in the pandering he was expected to take part in to appeal, as his producer put it, to "a fat guy with a beer in one hand and a remote in the other". While on the one hand he loves making television shows - it suits his quick, keen intelligence, and his intuitive grasp of situations and people - "It's fun to do!" he says - on the other hand, "but I hate to watch it. And, anyway, I don't want to be 'that guy on cable television'"

However his talent was such that Brian Leonard, the Emmy winning producer notable for his fair dealings with others in an industry not known for honour, lured him to work on quality projects. This adherence to principles is finally paying off - slowly, but in a better way - Austin has just announced a deal to develop programming that it is hoped will appeal to his own audience. Younger, cooler, and smarter (than the guy with the remote!) As a first step, Austin is appealing to Facebook fans, to give him feedback on demos and taster tapes. He is also mid-way through a documentary exploring love around the world. These are ongoing projects.

Music

Austin's fans know him as a bringer of joy, light and happiness. Although he considers it a mere hobby, millions of streams, downloads, comments and likes of his music each year, a devoted regular following, and 1.7 million members of his music sites PopMusic.com and Sharemusic.com, make it a hobby that positively affects people in every country on earth.

Awards

Austin has received accolades and awards from the world over. However, he is most appreciative of the words and kind thoughts of both friends and strangers who support, and are personally touched by, his work.

He was awarded a position as cultural youth ambassador to France, where he stayed at the homes - often chateaus - and met with the descendants of the French officers who fought in the American Revolution, including the current Contessa de Lafayette. His favourite moment was when he was pointing out the room in which he was staying, on the top floor of a chateau, at which moment his picture was snapped. He had also made a joke about his ambition being "to invade and conquer Switzerland - because it's never been done!" The next day, on the front page of the local paper, his picture appeared, pointing forward and looking up in a glorious manner (really pointing out his room), above the headline "George Washington's Relative Vows to Invade and Conquer Switzerland".

Beyond this, he has been awarded everything from Youtube's most popular musician to the Friend of Russia Award, presented by Young Miss World and three of the most prestigious Russian artists: a painter, pianist, and singer.

Austin Washington is, more than anything, like a self-contained, slightly older and much wiser, and far more talented, Disney star. He's been educated at Oxford University, which make some people think he's smart. He's currently signed to the best publisher of books about American values, Regnery, to write a book about his great uncle, George Washington - and how he became great (and how you can, too).

So far, not very Disney-esque. But hold on. He's also signed with the best producer of television shows today to create a series, hopefully for Oprah's OWN network. In the meantime, like Jon Stewart, he is combining comedy and a sceptical - yet in his case also optimistic, rather than cynical - world-view, in his series "War, Hate and Misunderstanding (and How to Solve Them)".

Still not very Disney-esque? It would be easy here to make a joke about having big ears, like Mickey, except Austin's are rather more perfectly shaped than Mickey's (or at least less protrusive).

Well, he writes, produces and makes music with a vast coterie of friends and collaborators around the world - and sometimes, when inspired, in country houses on Christmas day, when no one else is around (well, that happened once - long story). With millions of downloads and streams a year, his music changes lives around the world on a daily basis.

Really, again, not so very like Disney.

He smiles a lot, but his smile is sincere, and comes from a well-spring of wisdom and kindness, not from the scream of a stage-mother just off camera. Again, really, nothing like Disney.

He is like a Disney star in the following way, though - he does a lot of different things, all of which have a large and devoted following. He really wants to make the world a better place, and feels spreading the power of the little wisdom he feels fortunate enough to have acquired, along with his own optimistic temperament and spiritual feelings, through the various projects he contributes to, is not a bad way to spend his time on earth...

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