-he was born on January 11, 1997.
-he used to live in the neighbourhood of Robina in Gold Coast, Australia, but moved to Los Angeles after he signed a record deal with Atlantic Records in May 2010.
-he was inspired to make music because he saw his dad play the guitar at backyard barbeques. 
-he got his first guitar and guitar lessons when he was seven.
-he also wrote his first song at that age. The first two sentences of the lyrics were "I bought some chickens, I changed their diapers". In 2012 he said he hoped his sonwriting skills had improved since then.
-after a few lessons, his guitar teacher told his parents come over because he had never seen anything like this: he had made Cody face the wall and the teacher played chords, and Cody could pick every chord out by ear.
-when his videos went viral late 2009, his parents said Cody was dreaming about living in New York.
-when asked in late 2009, he said he was 1,62m tall.
-he has a younger brother & sister, Tom and Alli.
-his parents' names are Brad and Angie. 
-Brad owns an investment company. Before the family moved to the US he had to make sure that he could oversee the business from across the ocean.
-in a July 2010 interview, Angie said that as soon as they would see signs that their son was getting carried away with his newly found fame, they'd "be knocking it out of him pretty quickly."
-Brad and Angie were glad to see though that Cody had acquired a healthy dose of confidence thanks to his YouTube career.
-several years before Cody signed a record deal, his grandma asked him: "Codes, what are you going to do? You're so good at guitar and swimming", and Cody said: "Well, I know I was born to be famous at something but I haven't quite figured it out yet."
-when he was 10, Cody asked his mom to reserve the domainnamewww.codysimpson.com for him. They finally registered it on August 17, 2008. It initially cost them $12.95 for two years and the record label was glad the Simpsons had already bought the domain before Cody got famous.
-at age 11 Cody managed to persuade his parents to let him upload some videos to YouTube to see what everyone thought of them.
-after a while, when Cody still only had a few subscribers, producer Shawn Campbell found him.
-after some online promotion, including bywww.youtube.com/BieberZone (Justin Bieber fan channel owned by one of the creators of this website), tons of teens around the world found him - and loved him and his music.
-Cody was briefly signed by Wired Records in 2009 but left them after a few weeks.
-in 2010, Cody signed a 4-album record deal with major label Atlantic Records and his first single, iYiYi featuring rapper Flo Rida was released on June 1st, 2010. 
-Cody's grandfather initially did not want him to go into the music business because he had heard a lot of stories about artists ending up using drugs.
-his parents noted that they want to keep their family close together and express love and support for each other to prevent this from happening.
-Angie was hesitant about moving the US because she was so used to life in their city and she had lived on the Gold Coast her entire life. Alli asked if they couldn't just do everything from the Gold Coast. Tom wanted to know if they'd go to Disneyland.
-the last week before moving to the US, the Simpson family resided with Cody's grandparents. Cody slept on a mattress on the floor.
-he loves Italian food.
-his favorite color is green & blue.
-his favorite book is "Ice Stations" by  Matthew Reilly.
-he speaks English & French.
-his favorite baseball team are the Yankees.
-he has a Mac computer.
-he loves peanut butter.
-his favourite city is New York.
-he has two dogs named Molly and Buddy.
-he used to go to All Saints Anglican School.
-he still holds 10 swimming records on his former school.
-he won academic awards at his school every year from year 3 onwards.
-he was a champion swimmer aspiring to compete in the 2012 London Olympics.
-he is close friends with Kylie Jenner, who is a half-sister of the Kardashian sisters. They are said to have dated briefly in the past.
-in December 2012 he went back to Australia for the holidays. He hung out with his family and friends on the beach as December is middle of summer in Aussieland.