Leonidas So Cool Biography

Leonidas was born on March 19, 2009, in the United States of America. He was exposed to the glitz and glamor of social media at a very young age, all thanks to the influence of Cordero and his mother Charlene ‘Royalty’ Johnson.

Cordero James Brady, best known by his pseudonym CJ So Cool, was in a relationship with Leonidas’ mother,  Charlene ‘Royalty’ Johnson, for a long time. After their wedding, Leonidas started living with Cordero along with his mother and siblings. Since both of them were involved in social media in one way or another, Leonidas quickly got accustomed to the online world. Cordero created his YouTube channel in December 2014, when Leonidas was 5 years old.

Leonidas started to appear in a number of videos with most of them garnering millions of views each. He starred in different kinds of videos that ranged from pranks and vlogs to makeover videos.

Some of the most viewed videos that feature Leonidas are ‘Pencil Stuck In My Eye Prank,’ ‘The So Cool Family Daily Routine,’ ‘Gave My Son An Extreme Makeover,’ ‘Father & Son Basketball Time Courtside With Lonzo Ball & The Lakers,’ ‘I Gave Leonidas $9000 For His 9th Birthday,’ ‘Happy Birthday Son,’ and ‘Finally Changed My Son Hair & Got A Surprise In The Mail.’

Some of the most viewed videos that feature Leonidas are titled as ‘Pencil Stuck In My Eye Prank,’ ‘The So Cool Family Daily Routine,’ ‘Gave My Son An Extreme Makeover,’ ‘Father & Son Basketball Time Courtside With Lonzo Ball & The Lakers,’ ‘I Gave Leonidas $9000 For His 9th Birthday,’ ‘Happy Birthday Son,’ and ‘Finally Changed My Son Hair & Got A Surprise In The Mail.’

Apart from appearing on CJ’s YouTube channel, Leonidas also features on his official Instagram page (cj_socool), which has more than 5.1 million followers. CJ often shared Leonidas’ photographs and video clips on his Instagram page which increased Leonidas’ popularity over the years.

Leonidas and his siblings have their own Instagram page, socoolfam1, which has close to 590k followers. Leonidas uses this Instagram account to show off his latest hairstyle and keep his fans and followers updated about the recent events in his life. The siblings also created their Youtube channel, So Cool kids, in December 2018. While the channel only has one video, it still hosts a family of over 8.2k subscribers. Currently, Leonidas features on his mother's channel, LIFE WITH ROYALTY, where he is admired and adored by over 1.39 million subscribers.

He also has a TikTok account under the name leonidas.socool where he has amassed over 30k followers and 201k likes with his “cool” (no puns intended) and catchy lifestyle videos.

Leonidas was born to Royalty Johnson and Jamie. However, the couple later got separated and Royalty took care of Leonidas and his siblings as a single mother. Leonidas currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. He has 2 sisters named Karnation and J'aaliyah and 2 half-siblings named Cordayah and Cordero Jr. He took a fair amount of inspiration from Cordero, which is apparent from his style and personality. He often mimicked Cordero’s gestures and has even started dressing like him. 

In 2022, his mother Royalty decided to part ways with Cordero. Their break-up sent social media into a frenzy with many wondering what went wrong. Royalty later posted a video titled “WHY I LEFT…” where she accused her former husband of cheating with multiple women. While Cordero, in a separate video, admitted to “messing up,” he refuted all the cheating allegations leveled against him. 

Leonidas is quite close to his sisters, J’aaliyah and Karnation, and spends a lot of time with them. He likes playing video games with Rocket League being his favorite. He describes burgers as his favorite food. When it comes to cars, the young social media star wishes to own a Lamborghini truck.