Rising R&B star Giveon is currently best known to music fans for his appearance on ‘Chicago Freestyle’, a Drake single that made the US Billboard Top 20 and UK Top 10 despite only being uploaded to YouTube and Soundcloud. He has, however, had hits in his own right, the biggest so far being 2019’s ‘Like I Want You’, which made the Top 20 of the US R&B charts.

Giveon has only been releasing music professionally for a couple of years yet has already built up an impressive back catalogue, including two EPs, Take Time (which reached the top of the Billboard Heatseekers charts) and When It’s All Said and Done (which climbed to number nine in the R&B charts), and a clutch of singles and guest appearances. He’s collaborated with the likes of Snoh Aalegra and Philly Phantom, but it’s the hook-up with Drake, one of the most celebrated and influential artists of recent years, that has really got people talking about his talent. 

Giveon was born Giveon Dezmann Evans in California. A music lover from a young age, he attended a music education program at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles and released his debut single, ‘Garden Kisses’ during 2018. His profile got a boost when he joined award-winning Swedish singer-songwriter Snoh Aalegra on her first North American tour and at subsequent shows across Europe. After this, 2020 became his breakthrough year, with ‘Chicago Freestyle’ dropping in February and swiftly being followed by Take Time and his second charting single, ‘Stuck on You’, which charted in America and as far afield as New Zealand.