Channel Tres

Channel Tres was born Sheldon Jerome Young in 1991 and grew up in southern Los Angeles, between Compton and Lynwood, raised by his great-grandparents. Church filled much of his childhood; he played drums for the choir there before leaving Los Angeles to study music at Oral Roberts University, a Christian college in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Back in Los Angeles, a childhood friend, the artist August 08, brought him along to studio sessions, and he began making beats for other artists, including Duckwrth, Wale and Kehlani, before stepping out as a performer himself.

He came to attention in the late 2010s pairing four-on-the-floor house rhythms with a low, conversational vocal delivery closer to rap than singing, drawing on Detroit and Chicago dance traditions alongside West Coast hip-hop. "Controller," released in 2018, picked up airplay on BBC Radio 1 and an Essential New Tune tag from Pete Tong, plus A-list rotation on Australia's Triple J.

A self-titled EP followed later that year, along with further singles including "Black Moses," featuring JPEGMAFIA. He played his first headline shows in the United States in 2019, since building a run of EPs and albums, collaborations across dance and pop, and a live show built heavily around choreography.