Featured In
ALBUMWhere Do I Go - SingleDJ Antoine, Aloe Blacc & INFINITY
Albums by Aloe Blacc
ALBUMAll Love Everything (Deluxe)Aloe Blacc
ALBUMChristmas Funk (2019)Aloe Blacc
ALBUMLift Your SpiritAloe Blacc
ALBUMGood Things (Deluxe Edition)Aloe Blacc
ALBUMShine ThroughAloe Blacc
ALBUMThe Waiting RoomEmanon, Aloe Blacc & Exile
Aloe Blacc's Popular Music Videos
SOS (feat. Aloe Blacc) [Fan Memories Video]
Avicii
Wrote My Way Out
Nas, Dave East, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Aloe Blacc
The Man
Aloe Blacc
Hello World
Aloe Blacc
I Need a Dollar (Long Version)
Aloe Blacc
Wake Me Up (Acoustic)
Aloe Blacc
Verge (feat. Aloe Blacc)
Owl City
Brooklyn In The Summer
Aloe Blacc
Better Day (feat. Aloe Blacc)
Young Bombs
Better Than Ever (feat. Aloe Blacc)
Flight Facilities
Artist Playlists
Aloe Blacc Essentials
This rapper-turned-singer is part Bill Withers and part Sam Cooke.
Artist Biography
Singer and rapper Aloe Blacc began performing in the ’90s as half of the underground hip-hop duo Emanon before launching his solo career in 2003.
• He’s said he chose the name Aloe because his style is “smooth like lotion.”
• Blacc was a teenager when he formed Emanon with the producer Exile. The group’s moniker is “no name” backward, a nod to a 1955 track by the jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.
• Music was initially a hobby for Blacc, who graduated from the University of Southern California in 2001 with a degree in linguistics and psychology.
• Blacc’s solo breakthrough came on the single “I Need a Dollar,” from his second solo album, 2010’s Good Things. The song was an international hit, reaching the Top 10 in nine countries.
• He cowrote and sang on “Wake Me Up,” a massive 2013 single by the Swedish DJ Avicii. Blacc recorded an acoustic version as the title song of an EP he released the same year.
• Blacc appeared on the sitcom Black-ish in 2016 and the crime drama Godfather of Harlem in 2019. He also voiced Boris the Frog on the animated children’s show Beat Bugs in 2016.
Hometown
Laguna Hills, CA, United States
Genre
Pop