Later that year, he was featured on Logic's US top 10 single "1-80" with Alessia Cara, which earned him a Grammy Award for Song of the Year nomination. The album spawned the US top 20 singles "Location" and "Young Dumb & Broke", with the former being certified Diamond by the RIAA. He rose to fame after the release of his debut studio album American Teen (2017), which was certified 4× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He is signed to Right Hand Music Group and RCA Records.
It was a commercial success and marked his first solo top ten in the US reaching number eight in its 30th week on Billboard, making it one of the slowest singles to reach the top ten.Khalid Donnel Robinson (born February 11, 1998), known mononymously as Khalid, is an American singer. The track was released as part of his first EP Suncity released in 2019, but it also featured on his album Free Spirit. In April of 2019, Khalid scored his first solo top 10 single with “Better.” But where did it all begin?Īfter his first single “Location” began charting, it started featuring in a variety of publications including Billboard, Yahoo, BuzzFeed, and Rolling Stone.Īs 2016 came to a close, “Location” finished at number 20 on the US Mainstream R&B/Hip Hop Airplay chart, while it reached the Top 10 on the US Hot R&B Songs chart in the year following. Just four years into his career in 2020, this exceptional singer-songwriter has released two studio albums, one extended play (EP), seventeen singles, and nine promotional singles. You had people saying I was stupid, that I was lame, that I was feminine, this and that.” I wasn’t afraid to sing, you know? I wasn’t afraid to be in musicals. He said, “I wasn’t like the typical alpha-male. A short while afterward, Khalid signed a record deal with RCA and Right Hand Records.ĭespite that he was still in high school, Khalid was determined not to give up on his dreams no matter what his peers thought.
With little prior experience in the music industry, Khalid took to SoundCloud to upload his earlier works that he’d written while he was still attending high school. Of being a military child and having an unsettled environment, Khalid said in an interview with Rolling Stone, “you don’t really have any form of stability.”
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