The Californian had a break-out moment in 2017 with early single ‘When I’m Down’. He has in the meantime cultivated a sort of anti-image, with a pudding-bowl haircut and the world’s baggiest jeans. It has paid off, his frenetic and often absurd pop earning 150 million streams in 2019.

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