Col3trane

As Col3trane, singer and songwriter Cole Basta has made himself known with an emotive but poised take on contemporary R&B in the stylistic realm of Frank Ocean, Jordan Rakei, and Daniel Caesar. Emerging in the late 2010s, he released his 2017 debut mixtape, Tsarina, and its immediate follow-up, BOOT, in 2018. After his third mixtape, Heroine, he focused on singles including 2020's "Pretty," "WTF," and 2022's "Lights Out." Born in London to American parents, he grew up listening to Motown classics, David Bowie, Prince, and Michael Jackson, later favoring rappers like 50 Cent, ...