Alex DiLeo

For singer/songwriter Alex Di Leo, 2019 was a nonstop whirlwind that radically altered his perspective as an artist. After moving to Nashville from his Southern Florida hometown, the 23-year-old musician found himself thrown into an endless cycle of eye-opening experiences and occasional bad choices, relationship struggles and wild new adventures (including one massively life-changing skydiving trip). While touring around the country with artists like Max Frost and Cody Lovaas, Di Leo created a new batch of music that channels all that chaos and self-discovery into beautifully detailed yet hard-hitting pop songs, ultimately offering up his most powerful work to date.

Made with producers/songwriters like Zack Djurich (Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign, Thirty Seconds To Mars), Di Leo’s latest output echoes a certain tension within his emotional life, a conflict he refers to as “being torn between young and reckless and a hopeless romantic.” To that end, his new music adds a moody alternative flavor to the laid-back coastal-pop sound he’s long embraced—all while introducing an element of heart-on-sleeve storytelling influenced by his recent exposure to country music in Nashville. In building that dynamic, Di Leo brought a new level of spontaneity to his songwriting and performance, instilling each track with the same warm and electrifying energy he’s shown in sharing stages with such artists as Barns Courtney and X Ambassadors.