PRODUCER, Steve Lacy, is a well-sought-out name in the music industry.
After working with big-name artists like Kendrick Lamar, the 24-year-old is focusing on his own alternative R&B sound.
Steve Thomas Lacy-Moya, was born on May 23, 1998, in Compton, California.
The musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer is of African-American and Filipino descent.
According to a 2017 Wired interview: “Lacy’s smartphone has been his personal studio since he first started making music. Even now, with all the equipment and access he could want, he still feels indelibly connected to something about making songs piece by piece on his phone.
“He’s also working this way to prove a point: that tools don’t really matter… He wants to remind people that the performance, the song, the feeling matter more than the gear you use to record it.
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“If you want to make something, Lacy tells me, grab whatever you have and just make it. If it’s good, people will notice.”
Lacy gained recognition in 2014 as the guitarist of the R&B group, The Internet.
The band’s 2015 album, Ego Death, earned him a Grammy nomination for Best Urban Contemporary Album.
In 2019, Lacy released his debut album, Apollo XXI, which earned him another Grammy nomination the following year.
On June 16, 2022, Lacy’s latest single, Mercury, was released with an official music video and visualizer on YouTube.
Nearly a month later, he dropped his second studio album, Gemini Rights on July 15.
Lacy has over 13million monthly listeners on Spotify and is ranked 377th in the world by the music streaming service.
Lacy’s net worth is estimated to be $35million, according to Idol Net Worth.
The rising producer has worked on songs for Denzel Curry, Isaiah Rashad, J Cole, Solange and more.
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Most notably, however, he teamed up with Kendrick Lamar to produce the song, Pride, on the rapper’s Grammy Award-winning and Pulitzer music prize-winning album, Damn.
He also helped produce Mac Miller‘s 2018 album, Swimming.
