Kingdom & Naomi Allen

American producer Kingdom's forward-thinking, energetic productions, merging U.K. bass music influences with contemporary R&B, have been widely influential to underground dance music and left-field R&B throughout the 2010s. In addition to his own releases on Night Slugs and Fool's Gold, he co-runs the acclaimed Fade to Mind label, and helped introduce the world to alternative R&B star Kelela. Born Ezra Rubin in Massachusetts, he moved to New York City at age 18 to study art at the Parsons School of Design. Though he had been making music for years beforehand, he initially ma...