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Summer Marjani Walker was born April 11, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia and raised primarily by her mother in the East Atlanta and metro Atlanta suburbs. She picked up guitar in her teens, posted bedroom acoustic covers and original material to SoundCloud and Instagram through 2016 and 2017, and was discovered by the Atlanta-based label and management collective LVRN (Love Renaissance) — co-founded by Tunde Balogun, Sean Famoso McNichol, Justice Baiden, Junia Abaidoo, Carlon Ramong, and others. LVRN signed Summer Walker and released her first EP, CLEAR, in October 2018 — a five-track acoustic set anchored by Riot, Just Might, and BP that became a cult R&B release on the strength of its stripped-down production and her distinctive smoky alto-soprano. Her full-length debut Last Day of Summer followed in November 2018 through LVRN and Interscope and produced Girls Need Love, the breakout single that turned the catalogue into a national conversation when Drake jumped on the official remix (Girls Need Love Remix) in February 2019 and pushed the song into mainstream R&B and hip-hop radio. Over It, her second album, arrived in October 2019 — an 18-track project that paired Summer Walker's vocal intimacy with production from London on da Track, Drew Love, and a deeper bench of LVRN collaborators. Anchored by Playing Games (the streaming hit that interpolates 911/Mr. Lonely by 112), the Bryson Tiller-featuring Playing Games (Extended Version), the viral SoundCloud-era Session 32, Come Thru with Usher (built around a flip of his 1997 hit You Make Me Wanna...), and Body, Over It debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, sold 134,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, broke the streaming-era record at the time of release for the biggest debut week by a female R&B artist since Beyoncé's Lemonade in 2016, and earned diamond, platinum, and gold RIAA certifications across the lead singles. The Over It tour through 2019 and into 2020 ran at theater and small amphitheater scale and was deliberately calibrated around her openly-discussed social anxiety, with set lengths and venue sizes pitched to keep the performance environment manageable. Still Over It, her third album, dropped in November 2021 as the sequel — a 20-track project with executive production from London on da Track, JT Genius, and others, and feature work from SZA, Cardi B, Pharrell, Ari Lennox, JT, Lil Durk, Omarion, Ciara, and others. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, sold 166,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, made Summer Walker the first female R&B artist to debut at number one with an R&B album since Beyoncé's Lemonade in 2016, and held the top spot for two weeks. Lead singles Ex for a Reason (with JT) and No Love (with SZA) became catalogue anchors; 4th Baby Mama, the album's pointed opening track addressing a public relationship situation, became one of the most-discussed R&B songs of 2021. The CLEAR 2: Soft Life EP in October 2023 returned to the stripped-down acoustic palette of the original CLEAR EP and bridged Still Over It and Finally Over It with the more minimal production tone the catalogue is also known for. Finally Over It, her fourth album, arrived in late 2024 as the closing chapter of the Over It / Still Over It / Finally Over It trilogy — a deliberate syntactic and narrative completion of the relationship arc the catalogue had structured itself around for five years. Across the catalogue Summer Walker has earned multiple Grammy nominations, multi-platinum and gold certifications, and BET Award and Soul Train Award wins for Best Female R&B Artist and Best New Artist. She is publicly the mother of three children and has spoken across her career about social anxiety and the way it has shaped her approach to live performance; her touring framework is deliberately calibrated around amphitheater and theater-scale venues, intimate production design, and a measured cadence between album cycles. She continues to record and operate creatively out of Atlanta through LVRN.

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