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Since his critically acclaimed debut albums ‘Disillusions’ and Flawd were released, with Disillusions landing on RedBull Soul Select Top 100 Albums of 2016, Adrian Daniel has amassed over 100 million streams on DSPs to date, earning support from Billboard, Vevo, TIDAL Rising, Amazon Music, Revolt TV, DJ Booth, The Fader, EarMilk, The Source, Highsnobiety, and Clash all while staying an independent artist. His album REQUIEM (2022) landed on multiple global charts while his single Wolf Cry recently went #1 on Itunes R&B chart in New Zealand.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Adrian Daniel is a storyteller who grew up on Stevie Wonder, Jay Z, Kanye West, Tame Impala, MJ, Usher and dug into crates to find Pink Floyd, Marvin Gaye, Freddy Mercury, Phil Collins (Love Me intro) that inspired him to take risk with his music and writing.
Adrian Daniel is a self-taught musician that plays the acoustic guitar on top of recording all his songs himself. An entertainer since age 12, he has performed at BAM and NJPAC and at 16, he was teaching dance at Harlem’s Uptown Dance Academy. He never gave singing a second thought until he attended a studio session and was asked to sing a hook. When he heard the track he was pleasantly surprised and wrote his first song at age 17. Shortly after releasing mixtapes in 2011 & 2012
What followed was accolades and fans. He was noted as an artist who stood out from the crowd at SXSW 2018 Music Festival by DJ Booth, and Australia Review. NPR Austin 100 Ones to Watch describes his music as akin to the R&B greats but “a more modern version. Music journalists shared he is “one of the reasons R&B is exciting again, pushing the genre into new territory.”
He has toured in the states, and overseas, performed with Louis the Child at Volkswagen Jetta Haus 2019 Launch ,the Heineken Green Room NYC with Grammy-nominated artist Jidenna, headlined Brooklyn Museum’s 2019 First Saturday Best of the Borough and recently performed at Madison Square Garden. His live performance received rave reviews by Bandintown, MSG and PopDust who shared, “The humble Pop R&B musician delivers an awesome performance."
Press
“The Brooklyn-bred wunderkind meshes sonics with storytelling”
“Adrian Daniel, one of Northside’s most influential talent at the 2017 Festival”
“Adrian Daniel’s modern R&B slithers and shape-shifts alluringly, propelled by a commanding falsetto that’s practically engineered to make knees quiver.”
““The humble Pop R&B musician delivers an awesome performance.””