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Early life

Luke Christopher was born in Van Nuys, CA. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley and in

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. As a teenager, he started making songs in his room from scratch. After graduating from high school, he was accepted by the

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, but he did not attend due to the fact that he was offered a record deal by Interscope Records his senior year of high school.

Career

Early on in his career, Christopher was discovered by Music Executive

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and

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his senior year of high school. Before releasing his first mixtape, Christopher had released several songs. On January 1, 2012, he released his debut mixtape, titled ''Building Skies''. The music was compared to Drake's by musical website Breakonacloud.com. On July 6, 2012 he released ''TMRW, TMRW'', a mixtape that began to make waves in Los Angeles. In 2013 he signed a record agreement with ByStorm Entertainment /

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and

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. On September 30, 2014 he landed a new mixtape titled ''TMRW, TMRW Pt. II''. Most of the mixtape's fifteen tracks were produced by Luke himself. On January 24, 2015 Christopher's song " Lot to Learn" entered the

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Twitter Emerging Artists Charts at 28. On September 11, 2015, Christopher released a double EP, ''YSTRDY'' and ''TMRW''. While ''YSTRDY'' contains remastered songs from old projects, ''TMRW'' features new content including the hit single "They Know". After its debut on iTunes, ''TMRW'' immediate positioned itself in the Top 100 albums in the Hip-Hop/Rap category. His song ''Roses'' from the ''TMRW'' was subsequently featured in the

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ad campaign. On July 28, 2017 he published his first studio album "TMRWFRVR" including 15 songs, one of which was a copy of the 2015 hit song from the album "TMRW", " Lot to Learn" (ByStorm Entertainment and

). On August 10, 2018, Christopher released the first single of his project "THE RENAISSANCE" called 'TROUBLE'. This began the weekly releasing of new singles from this project. The project ended on August 1, 2019, after he released the final song from the project 'BIG HEADED'. By the end of the project, he had released 52 songs.

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

* ''TMRW'' (2015)

Mixtapes

Singles

References

External links

Official website
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