His father, Michael Schneider, was a mathematician and that's from where probably Kurt inherited his flair for maths. His mother, Laurie S Auth was a visual artist and may be attributed with his musical bent. He has mixed German and Austrian ancestry from his father's side. Music runs in his family. He has only one sister named Carson Rose Schneider.

Kurt Hugo Schneider is started his study first in Wissahickon High School let in Hopper College .Schneider attended Yale University, where he got his start producing videos when he worked at Yale's Digital Media Center for the Arts. He graduated magna cum laude in 2010 with a degree in mathematics and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa

Kurt Hugo Schneider is an American video editor, producer, musician, singer, and songwriter who has a net worth of $4 million. Kurt Hugo Schneider was born in Baltimore, Maryland in September 1988. He is known by his initials KHS and has a YouTube channel KurtHugoSchneider which has more than 11 million subscribers and more than 2.5 billion total views.

He produced a video of a Michael Jackson medley for Tsui that has more than 34 million views. Kurt Hugo Schneider has collaborated with Coca-Cola to create music videos. Kurt Hugo Schneider, sometimes referred to by his initials KHS, is an American video editor, producer, musician, singer and songwriter, whose primary medium is YouTube music videos. He has produced music videos for various YouTube musicians, such as Sam Tsui.

Kurt Hugo Schneider was the associate producer, music producer, sound editor, vocalist, and artist for the video That's Why I Chose Yale in 2010 and he also directed the short Nothing Left Unsaid the same year. Schneider directed the short film College Musical: The Movie in 2014. He plays the piano, guitar, and percussion.