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Conan Lee Gray was born December 5, 1998, in Lemon Grove, California, to a mixed Irish-American and Japanese-American family, and moved frequently as a child — between California, Hiroshima in Japan, and eventually Georgetown, Texas, where he settled through middle school and high school. The small-town Texas years became the autobiographical bedrock of his songwriting: the suburban malls, the quiet streets, the feeling of being a queer teenager in a conservative community that he would later draw on directly in Crush Culture, Idle Town, and the broader Sunset Season aesthetic. He started a YouTube channel in 2013, initially uploading vlogs and acoustic covers, gradually shifting toward original songwriting as his audience grew. The pivot point was Idle Town, a self-produced acoustic track he uploaded to YouTube and SoundCloud in March 2017 while he was still in high school; the song accumulated millions of plays inside the year and brought major-label attention from Republic Records, which signed him in 2018 ahead of his enrolment at UCLA. He attended UCLA briefly before pausing his studies to focus on music full-time. The Sunset Season EP arrived in November 2018 and collected the early YouTube-era material — Idle Town, Generation Why, Crush Culture, Greek God — into a polished six-song release that worked as a thesis statement for the project: bedroom-acoustic core, slick pop production around the edges, queer-coded longing throughout. Kid Krow, his full-length debut, arrived in March 2020 — the same week the world went into pandemic lockdown — and became one of the era's defining streaming-pop releases on the back of Heather, the third single, which slow-burned through 2020 into a TikTok-driven viral moment that pushed it onto the Billboard Hot 100 and made it one of the most-streamed pop songs of the year. Maniac, the album opener, lifted the cycle into pop-radio territory; the record itself debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, the highest debut for a male artist's first full-length on Republic in over a decade. Superache in June 2022 pushed the project into bigger productions and more anthemic choruses — Memories worked as the lead single, Disaster and Yours filled out the streaming-pop singles run, and the album debuted at number eight on the Billboard 200. The Superache World Tour ran across 2022 and 2023, scaling from clubs and ballrooms into proper theatre and amphitheatre rooms. Found Heaven in April 2024 represented the most significant sonic pivot of his career: a full synth-pop and 1980s-leaning record co-produced with Greg Kurstin (the Adele and Sia collaborator), pulling from Cyndi Lauper, the Cure, and the broader 1980s Hi-NRG and new-wave palette. Lonely Dancers, Never Ending Song, and the title track Found Heaven worked as the album's defining singles. The Found Heaven World Tour scaled the live operation into amphitheatre and arena-tier rooms across North America, the UK, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He remains Republic Records, remains publicly out as queer (he came out in interviews around the Superache cycle, though his songwriting had always read as queer-coded to the audience that arrived early), and remains based in Los Angeles. He is also a published novelist — his debut Y/A novel arrived in 2024 alongside the Found Heaven album cycle.

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