JIMMY OCTOBER

Jimmy October (born L'shun Emmanuel) is the Sangre Grande singer-songwriter who coined "New Calypso," a sound fusing calypso's narrative tradition with R&B intimacy and hip-hop's directness. From spoken word poet at 2014's Machel Monday to opening for J. Cole, PARTYNEXTDOOR, and Major Lazer, October's trajectory accelerated with a feature on Steve Aoki's 2017 KOLONY album and his debut EP Vacation the same year.
Working with producer Tano (Michael Montano) and Brooklyn Decent, October makes music that, as he puts it, "feels like home while building a world around what the future of the Caribbean sounds like." Signed to Protoje's In.Digg.Nation Collective and Delicious Vinyl Island, featured in FADER and Complex's "10 Artists to Watch from Trinidad and Tobago," he represents a generation refusing to let geography limit their sonic ambitions. His portraits capture an artist making Trinidad's sound essential to global pop's evolution.