California singer/songwriter Roy Blair makes atmospheric, genre-twisting music that's hard to categorize as just R&B, pop, rap, or any one discipline. Blair got his start as a Brockhampton affiliate, singing backup with the boy band's Kevin Abstract and later appearing on his sophomore album. Blair's own debut, Cat Heaven, arrived in 2017, as did subsequent releases like the 2024 album Chasing Moving Trains.
The Los Angeles-based artist wrote his first song in the fifth grade after finding a laptop with Garageband at his after-school program. By the 2010s, he was performing a...