Image Credit: Vevo
Image Credit: Vevo
Vevo announces the release of Bakar’s DSCVR performances of “1st Time” and “Having A Good Time, Sometimes”. Vevo DSCVR focuses on the development of emerging artists, through performance content and careful curation. Vevo has a long history of helping emerging artists break into new and broader audiences. Vevo’s DSCVR series alumni include Billie Eilish, AB6IX, and Alfie Templeman. Vevo is committed to working with artists at an early stage in their career to create unique content that visually brings their music to life and provides exposure to new audiences through the platform.
The singles “1st Time” and “Having A Good Time, Sometimes” build on the worldwide success of Will You Be My Yellow? EP and its smash hit “Hell N Back”, which has been streamed over 100 million times to date and has spent most of the year in the US alternative charts, where it is currently in the top 10. More early this summer, the song peaked at #1 on the Adult Alternative radio chart for two weeks, where it broke a ten-year record set by Kings of Leon.
Much of Bakar’s music pays homage to classical songwriting, full of warmth and puns. However, Bakar is an unmistakably contemporary take, partly informed by his first-generation British experience (“I make black music. We’re children of hip hop – it’s all from there”) and a network of global collaborators sharing the same ideas and peers: whether collaborating with Kenny Beats, Dominic Fike and BENEE or absorbing the knowledge of Skepta, A$AP Mob or Virgil Abloh. On the downside, he hasn’t had a phone for two years, so he can still focus on songwriting rather than social media, instead spending his time writing songs on the go, whether in the underground or in the streets.
Vevo announces the release of Bakar’s DSCVR performances of “1st Time” and “Having A Good Time, Sometimes”. Vevo DSCVR focuses on the development of emerging artists, through performance content and careful curation. Vevo has a long history of helping emerging artists break into new and broader audiences. Vevo’s DSCVR series alumni include Billie Eilish, AB6IX, and Alfie Templeman. Vevo is committed to working with artists at an early stage in their career to create unique content that visually brings their music to life and provides exposure to new audiences through the platform.
The singles “1st Time” and “Having A Good Time, Sometimes” build on the worldwide success of Will You Be My Yellow? EP and its smash hit “Hell N Back”, which has been streamed over 100 million times to date and has spent most of the year in the US alternative charts, where it is currently in the top 10. More early this summer, the song peaked at #1 on the Adult Alternative radio chart for two weeks, where it broke a ten-year record set by Kings of Leon.
Much of Bakar’s music pays homage to classical songwriting, full of warmth and puns. However, Bakar is an unmistakably contemporary take, partly informed by his first-generation British experience (“I make black music. We’re children of hip hop – it’s all from there”) and a network of global collaborators sharing the same ideas and peers: whether collaborating with Kenny Beats, Dominic Fike and BENEE or absorbing the knowledge of Skepta, A$AP Mob or Virgil Abloh. On the downside, he hasn’t had a phone for two years, so he can still focus on songwriting rather than social media, instead spending his time writing songs on the go, whether in the underground or in the streets.
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