The New Jersey native caught the attention of Ellen DeGeneres who signed him to her label in 2011.
Ellen DeGeneres Signed Charlie to her record label eleveneleven in 2011 after he won the Can You Sing? In another photo, he threw on a brown-ish button-down shirt and socks and stood outside his front door, smiling in the sunshine and holding a bottle of water.
This in itself is not an invalid speculation, as artists like Vanilla Ice have done the same for a long time.
He admitted his rather strange nickname in a Billboard interview.