Khalid is a nontraditional R&B singer and songwriter with a large following attracted to his undemonstrative but heartfelt vocal style and down-to-earth perspective. Although he attained a major-label contract within months of uploading his first songs, "Location," released when the El Paso native was just out of high school, moved into the mainstream at a slow tempo similar to that of the song itself and became a Top 20 pop hit just after the release of American Teen (2017), one of the biggest album debuts of the late 2010s. Within a period of just over a year, Khalid went fr...