New Music Report: Emerging Artist of the Week - Khalid

Meet Khalid. He's a 19-year-old singer and songwriter, and he is definitely an artist you NEED to keep on your radar this year. Khalid was born in Fort Stewart Georgia, but eventually ended up in El Paso, Texas after moving around with his family, as his mother was in the military. You may have already heard his hit song "Location," but recently, Khalid released his debut full-length album called American Teen.

American Teen debuted in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 -- not bad for your first album -- and features 15 new songs, including "Location." Nearly an hour's worth of amazing music. He tells iHeartRadio in an exclusive interview of his album, " I told myself when the album come out, my life would change forever, and so far, my life has been changing rapidly. I can't even keep up with it sometimes, but it's dope. It's a really good experience."

Khalid is in his last year of being a teenager, so as you can imagine, American Teen was inspired by his teenage years. He says:

"It was almost like everything that I went through over the span of all of my high school career until now just created all of these different stories that I was able to share throughout the album. Stories that my friends went through, stories that I saw other people go through, and it was just all about putting that together, compiling it and kind of just expressing my youth, especially."

Khalid's "Location" has been get a lot of buzz lately, even recently performing the song on Good Morning America, and it's a special song for the teen. Khalid wrote the song around prom time during his senior year in high school. He explains "I feel like that was the first step of me finding my true self as an artist. I felt like everything before then was just kind of like templates." He adds, "It's just crazy how one song can just change everything in my life. I love that song a lot."

Khalid is currently on tour, but is set to perform during the Daytime Village at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on September 23rd, along side artists like Halsey, Flume, French Montana, Bebe Rexha, and more.