Quavo has spent nearly two decades as the guy who makes a hook stick. Born Quavious Marshall and raised in Lawrenceville, Georgia, he co-founded Migos in 2008 with his nephew Takeoff and Offset, and...
Few groups reshaped rap in the 2010s as fast as Migos. The trio formed in 2008 in Lawrenceville, Georgia, and took their triplet-heavy flow from Atlanta clubs to pop radio, high school dances and...
Pitbull took a Miami block-party sound and carried it everywhere, from a Dubai arena to Hyde Park in London. Born Armando Christian Pérez, the Cuban-American rapper broke through with M.I.A.M.I. in 2004, and he’s...
Two blokes who met in a King’s Road hi-fi shop went on to become the most successful duo in UK music history, at least according to the 1999 edition of The Guinness Book of...
Few artists make messy, neon-bright funk-pop feel as natural as Remi Wolf does. The Palo Alto-born singer-songwriter started releasing music in 2019, and she’s spent the years since turning bedroom-pop energy into something closer...
Not many rock singers can say they went from singing backup on Michael Jackson’s Bad tour to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Sheryl Crow did. She grew up in Kennett, Missouri, broke...
Few pop stars have turned a bedroom YouTube channel into a Grammy-nominated career the way Troye Sivan has. Born in Johannesburg and raised in Perth, he signed with EMI Australia in 2013 and broke...
Wage War are proof that a Florida metalcore band can grow up in public and keep its crowd. They formed in Ocala in 2010 under the name Empires. Since then they’ve gone from a...
Few artists of her generation have turned a TikTok following into something as moody, theatrical and stubbornly personal as Nessa Barrett has. The American singer-songwriter (hometown: verify) built her name online, put out her...
Few artists have turned a pair of flip-flops and an old beach chair into a career like Kenny Chesney. The Knoxville-born country singer put out his first record in 1994 and has since built...