R&B/Soul
United States
Khalid
Over Khalid
Woonplaats
Fort Stewart, GA, United States
Geboren
February 11, 1998
Genre
R&B/Soul
In 2016, Khalid Robinson was voted Most Likely to Go Platinum by his high school class. About a year later, he proved them right. A military kid, Robinson split his childhood between Georgia, Kentucky, upstate New York, and Heidelberg, Germany, eventually settling in El Paso, Texas—a pattern of dislocation that often made him feel like an outsider. Self-described as “an awkward teen,” he picked up songwriting primarily to stave off loneliness, sharing music through SoundCloud and quickly catching the ears of both his peers and the industry. (His breakout single, 2016’s “Location,” was recorded during spring break of his senior year; a few weeks after it came out, he won Prom King; within a couple of years, the song had sold more than five million copies in the US alone.)
In 2017, he released American Teen, a celebratory but bittersweet mix of synth-pop and neon-lit R&B that garnered five Grammy nominations—proof that you’re rarely an outsider alone. In between, Robinson featured on high-profile collaborations with Logic (“1-800-273-8255”), Calvin Harris (“Rollin”), and Normani (“Love Lies”), among others. An EP, Suncity, arrived in late 2018, opening with audio of Khalid being given the key to the city of El Paso—not bad for a kid who’d moved there only a few years before. He followed that up with 2019’s soulful, creatively unbounded Free Spirit, on which he charted new emotional terrain with a strong focus on his well-being.
More singles—including a contribution to the Barbie The Album soundtrack (“Silver Platter”)—took us up to 2024 when Khalid began paving the way towards his third album, 2024’s Sincere, by dropping the dramatic “Please Don’t Fall in Love with Me” and the slow jam of “Adore U” from the record, both of which became Top 10 R&B hits.
Muzikale invloedenDe muzikale invloeden van Khalid zijn onder andere Sam Smith, Fleetwood Mac, Jason Derulo en meer.
Beïnvloed door KhalidKhalid heeft de muziek van Dua Lipa, MUNA, Billie Eilish en meer beïnvloed.
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