“I had this concept,” he says, “I wanted to write a song about somebody that wasn’t talking about their looks. He wouldn’t revisit it until two years later. Vine and Michaels had mutual admiration for each other’s music, and she soon came up with a song concept for Vine, which he saved in a voice note on his phone. The six-song project included a bouncy rap-infused pop track “Sour Patch Kids” that gained attention and gave him the confidence he needed to keep at it.Įventually, Vine learned to produce on his own, but continued working with Lambroza, who in 2015 introduced him to his then-girlfriend, Julia Michaels. The pair started their own label, Kiva House Lambroza (“a way for me and Nolan to solidify our agreement between each other,” Vine says) on which Vine dropped his first EP, 2014’s Lazy Fair. He reunited with Lambroza shortly thereafter, and together they churned out songs that helped Vine refine his own sound. 4, 2018 at Optimist Studios in Los Angeles. As for his video submission song of choice, he sang and rapped Kanye West’s “Gold Digger.”īryce Vine photographed on Sept. By his second year, he started to feel more comfortable with his direction, and, at the request of his mother, auditioned for the Glee-scouting reality series The Glee Project. But it wasn’t until he met budding producer named Nolan Lambroza (now known as Sir Nolan, who’s behind singles for Shawn Mendes and Selena Gomez) in a practice room that he began exploring what his voice could do over pop and rap beats. “I’ve always struggled with insecurity, thinking I’m not good enough to do the things that I wanted to do, but I just kept doing it because it was what I wanted.”Īt Berklee, Vine toyed with everything from jazz to gospel in classes. “I had no idea what I was doing,” he says. But despite being at Berklee on a scholarship, Vine admits he felt out of his league. There, he auditioned for the school using a Goodsell song called “Good Action Movies Never Get Filmed In A Town Like This” - “so Fall Out Boy,” he jokes - which ended up being his ticket to college. As the only member with songwriting skills, he became the frontman by default: “I figured if you were going to make music, then you had to write it yourself,” he says.Īs high school was coming to an end, Vine attended a Berklee College summer program. After meeting a girl in his high school journalism class who played drums, he was recruited along with another classmate to form a punk band called Goodsell. And though it may seem like his ascent has been swift, he traces his start back to when his just hit his teens, when he taught himself to play guitar after receiving one for his birthday. Now, Vine, 30, is gearing up to do just that with the release of his first full-length album, Carnival, slated for an early 2019 release.
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