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THE KID LAROI.
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(AU)
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Mike G, David Zedeck, Chris Jordan, Matt Meyer & Noah Simon UTA
LAEL NEALE AGENT
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Nikita Lavrinenko Pitch & Smith
iq-mag.net
(US)
ultiplatinum Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, and producer The Kid LAROI. has emerged as one of the hottest rising artists in the hip-hop landscape. His July 2020 debut mixtape F*ck Love peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 200 Albums Chart, while his most recent single Without You ascended to #52 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles chart and has been certified gold by the RIAA. It also reached #2 on the Australian charts and has been certified platinum in Canada. Currently working on his highly anticipated debut studio album, The Kid LAROI. first gained mainstream popularity outside Australia in 2019 with his single Let Her Go, and has earned international accolades for his work. Those achievements have helped amass a rapidly expanding social media fanbase with more than 27 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
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ael Neale grew up on a farm in Virginia among acres of clouds, fields, and woods. It was writing and writers close to nature – Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Steinbeck, and Mary Oliver – that she most connected with. In 2009, she moved to California with a rising devotion to music and for nearly ten years she has called Los Angeles home. Neale has worked with countless musicians, producers and collaborators, making entire records and eventually stowing them away. Despite endless frustration, she never resigned. After discovering a new instrument, the Omnichord, she experienced a moment of illumination and began recording a deluge of emerging songs with the intention to capture them in their truest form. Using a cassette four-track, she recorded most of the songs for her album Acquainted with Night in her bedroom in the early darkening evening.
