Landon Sears (born January 30, 1997) is a multi-platinum American singer, rapper, songwriter, musician, and producer raised in Danville, Kentucky, and based out of Nashville, Tennessee.^[1][2][3] He is most recognized for his work on Bren Joy's "Sweet" in 2019, which has accumulated over 16,167,691 streams on Spotify, as of May 19, 2023.^[4][5][6] Sears has additionally gained recognition through his work as a songwriter and composer for South Korean acts such as Kang Daniel, CIX, NCT Dream and NCT DoJaeJung.^[7][8] NCT DoJaeJung's "Perfume", co-written by Sears, peaked at number 4 on the South Korean single charts.^[9] Sears's credits on Kang Daniel's EP, Yellow earned him his first platinum record, with NCT Dream's EP, Candy, delivering his second, reaching number 1 on Cirlce Chart and amassing sales of 1,395,187 copies by December 2022.^[10][11] His work with notable contemporary American artists includes Yung Buck, Jason Derulo, Bubba Sparkxxx, Leven Kali, Innanet James, Felly, and Connor Stankevich (better known as Conswank) of 99 Neighbors.^[12] He specializes in the genres of hip-hop and R&B, with his style being self-described as "harmony rap".^[13]

Early life and career

Initially a violinist, he became fascinated with hip-hop at a young age, attributing his time spent navigating iTunes & YouTube to developing his taste in music. He would overdub recordings of him playing violin onto instrumentals of well-known songs, burn them to CDs and sell them at school.^[14] At the age of 13, he began learning to rap and produce using GarageBand, attempting to copy other artists he found on DatPiff, then moving onto Logic Pro once he began attending high school.^[13] He eventually moved from his hometown of Danville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee to attend Belmont University and find a more fitting music scene. He began posting to online music platforms such as SoundCloud and Bandcamp before releasing his first single, "Bonnie & Clyde", to music streaming services via DistroKid on December 5, 2016.

Discography

Landon Sears has released three studio albums, Autumn Icarus which was released on 19 December 2017, 88.1, released on 30 January 2021, and Call Collect X, released on 28 October 2022.

Production and songwriting credits

References

External links

• Landon Sears at AllMusic
• Landon Sears discography at MusicBrainz
• Landon Sears on YouTube