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About Brent Faiyaz

Christopher Brent Wood was born September 19, 1995 in Columbia, Maryland — the planned mixed-use community founded by James Rouse in 1967 in Howard County, midway between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. He grew up between Columbia and the broader Howard County corridor and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina during high school before returning to the East Coast to pursue music full-time in his late teens. He adopted the Brent Faiyaz stage name — a phonetic version of fire — early in the SoundCloud era and released a series of independent singles through 2014 and 2015 that built a small but devoted online following on the late-night, slow-tempo, sample-heavy alternative R&B end of the streaming catalogue. The breakout moment was the 2016 feature on GoldLink's Crew alongside Shy Glizzy — a track that became GoldLink's first major commercial single, reaching the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100, earning a Grammy nomination for Best Rap/Sung Performance, and turning Brent Faiyaz into a recognizable name on R&B and hip-hop radio without a record deal behind him. He formed the Sonder collective with producers Dpat and Atu in 2016 and released the Into EP in 2017 — five tracks of dim, mid-tempo R&B that established the sonic template the rest of his catalogue has built on. The debut solo album Sonder Son arrived in October 2017, recorded largely on a trip to the Dominican Republic and released independently through his own Lost Kids imprint with no major-label distribution — a notable independent move at a moment when most artists at his streaming volume were signing major deals. The 2020 EP F*ck The World — released April 3, 2020 in the early weeks of the pandemic — became a streaming sleeper hit anchored by Rehab (Winter in Paris), Clouded, and Been Away, and pushed his monthly Spotify listenership past 10 million for the first time. Wasteland landed July 8, 2022 as the first full-length follow-up to Sonder Son and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 behind only the week's top release, the highest-charting independent R&B album of the year. The album ran 19 tracks across 53 minutes and featured Drake on Wasting Time (originally a Drake solo on Honestly, Nevermind that was re-mixed and re-released as a Brent Faiyaz feature), Tyler, The Creator on Gravity, Alicia Keys on Loose Change, and contributions from The Neptunes, DJ Dahi, and Jordan Ware on production. Single performance ran through All Mine, Gravity, Wasting Time, and Price of Fame. The 2023 deluxe extension carried additional tracks and the Larger Than Life mixtape collaboration arrived later that year as a tour-cycle drop. The Trust single with Tommy Richman in mid-2024 was the catalogue's biggest viral moment to date — the song's slow-burn TikTok cycle through summer and fall 2024 produced a Hot 100 climb and pushed the live demand into arena scale for the first time. He has performed at Coachella, Lollapalooza, Wireless Festival in London, Rolling Loud Miami and California, the Made in America festival, and the OVO Fest in Toronto across multiple cycles, and has co-headlined runs with broader R&B and hip-hop acts on Live Nation routings. Lost Kids — the label, brand, and creative collective — continues to operate independently with Brent Faiyaz as the anchor artist alongside a small roster of affiliated producers and writers. His catalogue is now widely cited as the most commercially significant independent R&B run of the streaming era, alongside H.E.R. and Daniel Caesar in the broader Black alternative R&B ecosystem.

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