Chalton kenneth Jeffrey howard(born 17 august 2003), professionally known as the Kid LAROI, is an Austrailian rapper, singer and songwriter. He was born in waterloo, New South Wales. Kid LAROI is from the kamilaroi people,an indergenous australian nation, fron which he derived his artist name ”LAROI”.
Before his 18th birthday, Kid LAROI, is already one of the fastest-rising music stars in the world. Just a few years ago, he and his mother were couch-surfing and struggling to make ends meet. Now, he’s living in L.A. and has accrued more than a billion streams across music platforms. Through his social media savviness, openness about mental health issues, genre fluidity and global reach, he’s practically the epitome of what a young music star looks like 2021. Here’s where the Kid LAROI came from—and where he’s headed.
He gained a local following before joining a partneship with Lil Bibby’s Grade A productions and Columbia records. Kid LAROI gained international attention with his song ”Let her go”, and attained further popularity with his song ”Go” featuring Juice Wrld, which peaked at the number 52 on the billboard hot 100.
In the past three months alone, The Kid LAROI has released collaborations with Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber, broken an Australian chart record, hit the top 10 in charts in more than a dozen countries, signed an enormous worldwide deal with Sony Publishing, won Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year at the APRA Awards in Sydney. This weekend, he’s set to make his Saturday Night Live debut.
His debut mixtape F*ck Love peaked at number 1 on the Australian ARIA charts, making him the youngest Australian solo artist to reach the top, and also reached number 1 on the US billboard 200. Additionally Kid LAROI’s song “Without You”, it’s remix with miley cyrus and “Stay”(with Justin Bieber)reached the top 10 of the billboard top 100, with stay peaking at number one.
