vaultboy, is a singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, Florida who first began experimenting with music during high school and has been perfecting and growing his craft ever since.
In 2018, he started livestreaming himself singing, performing and also gaming full-time under a previous alias. It wasn’t until late 2020 that he posted his debut TikTok as vaultboy, a name that pays homage to his love of video games, specifically the Fallout series. He began sharing his original music and found, with his fun and relatable lyrics, that he was able to deeply connect with the audience that has grown around him.
In early 2022, vaultboy released his self-titled debut EP including viral hit ‘everything sucks’ which spent two weeks at #1 on the Spotify global viral chart and hit #1 on the QQ Music Western music chart in China. Regionalised feature-remixes of ‘everything sucks’ including versions with Korean-American artist Eric Nam, British artist Gracey and Chinese rapper Lil Jet have helped the record has generate several hundred millions of streams worldwide and allowed vaultboy to begin to build a truly global fanbase.
As an artist birthed in the pandemic, vaultboy’s main connection with his audience has been online where he has accumulated over 2.5 million followers across his main social channels to date. In late 2023, he began rolling out new singles, signifying the start of a new chapter of his project. With US touring under his belt, vaultboy recently announced his UK, EU, Australia, and Asia 2024 headline tour, with the announcement of the release of his debut album coming on May 10th, 2024.
Besides creating his own music, vaultboy has written with the likes of gnash and co-wrote Sarah Barrios’ single “Have We Met Before?” featuring Eric Nam. vaultboy has also began to build in the Web 3.0 space with his debut music NFT release on Sound XYZ which rapidly sold out of all 25 editions and generated 2.5 ETH.
Jordan Suaste
With an undeniably radiant and uplifting personality, it’s easy to see why 23 year old Jordan Suaste and his dedicated fans lean into the saying: ‘change the world with a smile’.
Championing themes of self-worth in his music, Suaste recognizes and embraces the value in individuals, no matter where they are in life. The high-school dropout— and once homeless struggling musician— has lifted himself into a bonafide rising artist that always stays true to his unique DIY mentality. By utilizing his natural gifts to craft authentic and vulnerable pop music, Suaste has quickly created personal connections with a dedicated fan-base through his music.
After self-releasing his song “Body” in 2020 amidst the backdrop of a global pandemic, Jordan’s message of self-love quickly resonated with both his followers and new audiences alike.
Using “Body” as a springboard to his newfound audience, Suaste began utilizing TikTok more-and-more during both the height of COVID and a personal emotional low as a means of simply recording and sharing songs he’d been working on.
“My whole life kind of exploded”, he laughs, as users garnered an immediate interest in Suaste’s deeply personal lyrics and vulnerability. Through hard-work and perseverance, Suaste continued to ride some rarified social media algorithm waves as he routinely shared his music and life journey online, and practically blew up overnight. Today, Suaste’s followers are up to 630,000 on TikTok and over 264,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. Shortly after “Body” had its online viral moment, Suaste moved on his own from his hometown near Salt Lake City to the bustling city of Los Angeles.
Once in LA, Suaste’s minimalist and lyrically sincere track “If the World Ended Tonight” was properly placed into the Netflix’s popular indie-drama To All The Boys: Always and Forever, which brought his profile up yet another rung as more-and-more new and young music fans discovered him for the first time. Suaste was elated to have his music encapsulated in conjunction with visual storytelling. “It’s a really great way to connect and make emotional things even more emotional”, says Suaste.
With an absolute dreamy visual and musical aesthetic, Suaste’s vision and commanding presence as an artist emerges complete with his beautiful lyrical message in his latest single “love who you want to” via Position Music. “Say what we wanna say, do what we wanna do, be who we wanna be, love who we want to”, the track’s anthemic and infectious chorus boldly encourages his listeners to embrace the freedom to be your authentic self.
“Love Who You Want To” officially kicks off suaste’s debut ep entitled maybe i already am. A project that thoughtfully reflects on the essence of self-love; not being hard on yourself for past disappointments, nor dwelling in dissatisfaction of who you think you should already be. “This whole project is about me realizing that maybe I already am special”, he asserts. “Maybe I don’t need to keep longing to be special, because maybe I already am, you know? Maybe I just have to love the parts of me that are.”
