I was like, ‘You know what? I need something to help me a little bit more.’” So he took it on himself and started to write.

American Teen, his sensational debut album, is all about summer sunshine, young love, and the adventures of tight-knit friendssubjects perfectly matched with the elegant blend of throwback. Reflecting on his evolution from spectator to artist for Apple Music’s Up Next series, Robinson said, “I would sit in this apartment, I would look at the mountain behind me, I would watch all the lightning and I would listen to music. An alumnus of the Apple Music Up Next program and a 2018 GRAMMY Award contender, the Texas songwriter is one of the year’s most impressive newcomers. In April 2019, he released his second studio. 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. 1 Rhythmic song Better as the lead single from his top 10 EP Suncity. An EP, Suncity, arrived in late 2018, opening with audio of Khalid being given keys to the city of El Paso-not bad for a kid who’d moved there only a few years before. Genres: R&B/Soul, Music Released: 2018 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment FILES INFO 7 Songs, 21 Minutes Format: Purchased AAC audio file (. In between, Robinson featured on high-profile collaborations with Logic (“1-80”), Calvin Harris (“Rollin”) and Normani (“Love Lies”), among others.

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. (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 U.S. 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. 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. About a year later, he proved them right. In 2016, Khalid Robinson was voted Most Likely to Go Platinum by his high school class.

Khalid 2018 album