Pop
United States
gnash
Chi è gnash
“I’ve been trying to remind myself recently that today can be a good day,” gnash tells Apple Music. “It’s up to me to say, ‘Okay, I feel weird and I’m going to change that.’” That message of self-acceptance goes to the heart of what the Los Angeles singer/songwriter/producer is all about: vulnerability, resilience, and a happy-sad clash of emotions represented in the crying smiley face on his merch. Born Garrett Charles Nash in 1993, the L.A. native grew up on a diet of Fall Out Boy and Jack Johnson. He started DJing at 13, playing hip-hop at high-school dances, then began producing cover versions of songs like O.T. Genasis’ “CoCo,” flipping boisterous rap choruses into a wistful emo croon. Out of that mix of influences—topped by Ben Gibbard’s Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service, his chief inspirations—came gnash’s unmistakable style. Fusing skeletal hip-hop beats with pensive piano melodies and a guileless tenor, his sound arrived fully formed on his 2015 debut EP, U, which he recorded in his parents’ garage in the aftermath of a painful breakup. Later that year, he turned his attention to finding himself on the Me EP, and in 2016 broke through in a major way with the Olivia O’Brien collaboration “i hate u, i love u,” a characteristically ambivalent ballad that anchored his us EP. Since then, across unplugged pop, minimalist R&B, and clean-lined pop-punk, his voice has kept getting smoother and his melodies sharper. But the sparkle in his eye hasn’t faded.
Influenze MusicaliLe influenze musicali di gnash includono Ed Sheeran, The Postal Service, Drake e altro.
Influenzato da gnashgnash ha influenzato la musica di ARTice, CloudAsh, Chance Davies e altro ancora.
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