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Cautious Clay
Joshua Karpeh (born January 30, 1993), known professionally as Cautious Clay, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.Cautious Clay takes us on a dream sequence in ''SIDEWINDER''
Michael Marottaon, ''Vanyaland'', June 18, 2019


Early life and education

Karpeh was born on January 30, 1993, in Cleveland, and attended Benedictine High School. He graduated with a degree in International Affairs from the

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Cleveland
Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. maritime border with Canada, northeast of Cincinnati, northeast of Columbus, and approximately west of Pennsylvania. The largest city on Lake Erie and one of the major cities of the Great Lakes region, Cleveland ranks as the 54th-largest city in the U.S. with a 2020 population of 372,624. The city anchors both the Greater Cleveland metropolitan statistical area (MSA) and the larger Cleveland–Akron–Canton combined statistical area (CSA). The CSA is the most populous in Ohio and the 17th largest in the country, with a population of 3.63 million in 2020, while the MSA ranks as 34th largest at 2.09 million. Cleveland was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River by General Moses Cleaveland, after whom the city was named ...
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Khalid (singer)
Khalid Donnel Robinson (born February 11, 1998), known mononymously as Khalid, is an American singer and songwriter. He is signed to Right Hand Music Group and RCA Records. 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). The album spawned the US top 20 singles "Location" and "Young Dumb & Broke", with the former being certified Diamond by the RIAA. Later that year, he was featured on Logic's US top 10 single " 1-800-273-8255" with Alessia Cara, which earned him a Grammy Award for Song of the Year nomination. The following year, Khalid released the No. 1 pop songs " Love Lies" with Normani and " Eastside" with Benny Blanco and Halsey, both of which tied the record at the time for longest charting songs on the Mainstream Top 40 chart and reached the top 10 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. In September 2018, he released the No. 1 Rhythmic song " Better" a ...
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John Legend
John Roger Stephens (born December 28, 1978), known professionally as John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and record producer. He began his musical career by working behind the scenes, playing piano on Lauryn Hill's " Everything Is Everything", and making uncredited guest appearances on Jay-Z's "Encore" and Alicia Keys's "You Don't Know My Name". He then signed to Kanye West's GOOD Music and released his debut album ''Get Lifted'' (2004), which reached the top ten on the ''Billboard'' 200 and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Legend received nine nominations at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards, including nominations for the singles " So High" with Lauryn Hill and "Ordinary People", with the latter song winning for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. The album also earned him awards for Best New Artist and Best R&B Album. His second studio album ''Once Again'' (2006), spawned the single "Save Room", and became his ...
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Bakar (musician)
Abubakar Baker Shariff-Farr (born 12 February 1994), better known as Bakar, is a British singer. Known for his experimental indie rock style, he made his professional solo debut with the mixtape ''Badkid'' in May 2018, subsequently releasing the extended play ''Will You Be My Yellow?'' in September 2019. He released his debut album ''Nobody's Home'' in February 2022. Early life Bakar grew up in Camden in North London and attended a state school before being sent to a boarding school in Surrey by his mother. He is of Yemeni and Tanzanian descent. He expressed that "going outside of London and hearing other tastes and how that can relate to im it definitely did something to im" Career 2015–2017: Online beginnings and solo debut Bakar began creating music in 2015 by cutting up samples of Bombay Bicycle Club and King Krule songs and uploading them to an anonymous SoundCloud account. For the next few years, he continuously uploaded projects and works to the platform, sever ...
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Sebastian (French Musician)
Sébastien Akchoté-Bozović (born 3 February 1981), known mononymously as Sebastian (stylised as SebastiAn), is a French musician, composer, producer, mixer, engineer, vocalist and DJ affiliated with Ed Banger Records. He has worked as a solo electronic musician and as a remixer for bands and singers such as Charlotte Gainsbourg, Daft Punk, Beastie Boys, Bloc Party, and Nero. He has also composed and produced songs for Charlotte Gainsbourg, Katerine, Juliette Armanet, Kavinsky, Frank Ocean, Uffie and Woodkid, and he has composed soundtracks for the films ''Our Day Will Come'', '' The World Is Yours'' and ''Steak'' (in which he also acted, credited under the name Sebastian Akchoté). Many of his tracks have been used on television and in video games. Early life Akchoté is of Serbian-French heritage. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt and raised in Paris, and Belgrade by a single mother.Green, Thomas H (July 2011)"Encore Une Fois"''Mixmag'' He is the younger brother of pop ...
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Sounwave
Mark Anthony Spears, known professionally as Sounwave, is an American hip-hop producer and songwriter from Compton, California, and an original member of the Californian hip-hop label Top Dawg Entertainment. Sounwave has worked on every Kendrick Lamar studio album since Lamar's 2009 self-titled EP, including the Grammy Award-nominated album ''Good Kid, M.A.A.D City'', Grammy Award winning ''To Pimp a Butterfly'', and the multi-Grammy and Pulitzer Prize–winning album ''Damn''. He has received two Grammy Awards: Best Rap Song (2015) for "Alright", and Best Rap Album (2017) for ''Damn''. Early life Hailing from Compton, Sounwave credits "Up Jumps da Boogie" by Timbaland as the first hip hop instrumental he ever listened to. From the age of ten, he started using a Korg drum machine to make simple drum beats. From there, he graduated to a 4-track machine and then to the MTV Music Generator for PlayStation. After using that for a while, he hooked up with rapper Bishop Lamont from ...
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Jack Antonoff
Jack Michael Antonoff (born March 31, 1984) is an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer. Antonoff is the lead singer of rock band Bleachers, and is the guitarist and drummer in the pop rock band Fun. He was previously the lead singer of the indie rock band Steel Train. Aside from his work with Bleachers and Fun, Antonoff has worked as a songwriter and record producer with various artists, including Taylor Swift, the 1975, Lorde, St. Vincent, Florence and the Machine, Lana Del Rey, Fifth Harmony, Kevin Abstract, Carly Rae Jepsen, the Chicks, Tegan and Sara and Clairo. Antonoff has often been credited with having a significant impact on the sound of contemporary popular music. Antonoff has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won seven Grammy Awards, including the 2022 Grammy for Producer of the Year. He has also won Grammy Awards for his work with Fun, for production on Swift's albums ''1989'' and ''Folklore'', for production on St ...
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Quinn XCII
Mikael Temrowski (born May 6, 1992), known by his stage name Quinn XCII (pronounced "Quinn ninety-two"), is an American singer-songwriter from Detroit, Michigan. He began his career in 2011 when he started writing and recording his own music as a sophomore at Michigan State University, before releasing his debut EP ''Change of Scenery'' in May 2015. On September 15, 2017, he released his debut studio album ''The Story of Us'' under Columbia Records, with his second album ''From Michigan with Love'' released on February 15, 2019. His third studio album ''A Letter to My Younger Self'' was released on July 10, 2020. On March 5, 2021, Temrowski's fourth studio album, ''Change of Scenery II'', was released on all streaming platforms after being teased a week before. Early life Mikael Temrowski was born on May 6, 1992 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He grew up listening to the city's Motown musical history. He met his primary producer and close friend Ayokay in third grade of elementar ...
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Heart To Mouth
''Heart to Mouth'' is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter LP (singer), LP, released on December 7, 2018, through BMG Rights Management, BMG. It was preceded by the singles "Girls Go Wild" and "Recovery". Background LP said she named the album ''Heart to Mouth'' because she feels that when she comes up with melodies, she "can feel that direct line from my heart to my mouth", and that "whether they're sadder songs or big anthems, they all come from the same place." Music ''Gay Star News'' described the album's sound as "confessional pop-rock", while it was noted as "full pop" by ''Irish Independent, Independent.ie''. Critical reception James Robinson of ''Independent.ie'' said that LP's "smart lyrics that characterised previous releases are all in tact, [sic] delivered in her inimitable Roy Orbison-on-helium tones, but they're matched with an appealing electro-pop backing", summarizing that "LP might yet steal Lady Gaga's crown as the world's strangest, most versat ...
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LP (singer)
Laura Pergolizzi (born March 18, 1981), known professionally as LP, is an American singer and songwriter. LP has released six albums and three EPs. LP has written songs for other artists including Cher, Rihanna, the Backstreet Boys, Leona Lewis, Mylène Farmer, Céline Dion and Christina Aguilera. Early life Pergolizzi was born in 1981 on Long Island, to an Italian father and mother, her paternal grandfather coming from Palermo and grandmother from Naples, Italy. Pergolizzi adopted the stage name "LP" after moving to New York City. Career David Lowery of the band Cracker saw LP performing and featured her on "Cinderella", a hidden track on the band's 1998 album, ''Gentleman's Blues''. Lowery followed up by producing LP's debut album ''Heart-Shaped Scar'', released in 2001 through Koch Records. LP's second album, ''Suburban Sprawl & Alcohol'', was released in June 2004 through Lightswitch Records. On the record, she collaborated with songwriter and music producer Linda Perry. ...
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Stelios Phili
Stelios Phili is a Cypriot-American songwriter, record producer, and composer based in New York, New York. He has produced tracks featuring artists such as A$AP Ferg, Young Thug, Lolo Zouai, SZA, MIA, and Big Sean. Songwriting and production According to an interview with MTV, Stelios Phili met rapper A$AP Ferg while working at GQ in 2013. The two began collaborating after fellow A$AP Mob member A$AP Nast passed along one of the producer's beats, which would later become the A$AP Ferg song "Ja-Rule" featuring Big Sean. In 2014, Phili produced the first single from A$AP Ferg's mixtape, ''Ferg Forever''. The song, "Doe-Active", was met with positive reviews. Pitchfork Media described the song as "a minimalist beat that could've slid right into ''Yeezus''", Stereogum called it "a total nutso banger", and ''Complex'' named it a "certified banger, with club-destroying drums". Phili's production was featured on four additional tracks on ''Ferg Forever''. In 2015, Phili produced Don ...
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Willy Moon
William George Sinclair (born 2 June 1989), better known by his stage name Willy Moon, is a New Zealand musician, singer, songwriter and producer. He is known for his 2012 single " Yeah Yeah" which appeared on the 2012 Apple iPod advert and peaked at number 26 on the UK Singles Chart. In March 2015, Moon and his wife, Natalia Kills, were fired as judges from The X Factor New Zealand for their harsh comments towards one of the contestants. Early life Moon was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He left school when he was 16 and left New Zealand when he was 18. He spent time in Berlin before moving to London, United Kingdom.Since 2014, Moon has been living in New York City. Music career 2010–2013: ''Willy Moon EP'' and ''Here's Willy Moon'' In 2010, Moon released his first song "I Wanna Be Your Man" on Myspace, where he was first noticed and subsequently acquired a record deal with Island Records. He released his first two singles through Luv Luv Luv Records. He received buzz ...
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