Dominic Fike

Dominic David Fike (born December 30, 1995), is an American singer and rapper from Naples, Florida who is signed to Columbia Records. 2Early life Fike grew up playing music. By ten years old, he had acquired a guitar and learned how to play it. Fike grew up with a younger brother, Alex, a sister, Apple, an older brother, Sean, and is of Filipino and African-American descent. 2Career 32017–2018: Don't Forget About Me, Demos Fike first received recognition by making beats with his then producer, Hunter Pfeiffer (known as 54) leading to several popular songs on SoundCloud such as "WeControlTheWeather" published under 54's SoundCloud account. He released the EP Don't Forget About Me, Demos at the age of 21 in December 2017, which was recorded while he was on house arrest for battery of a police officer. The EP caught the attention of several record labels and sparked a bidding war, and he signed with Columbia for a reported $4 million. He later went to jail for violating that house arrest, and came to wider attention in 2018 for the song "3 Nights", which peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom."3 Nights" was released as a single, and had its acoustic guitar sound compared to the music of Jack Johnson. It was placed on rotation on several radio stations and Spotify playlists and received favorable reviews from outlets such as Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and Billboard. In reference to the EP, Billboard described Fike as a "genre-meshing" artist, and later named him a breakout act to watch, calling "3 Nights" "Motown-tinged" as well as "trend-proof and irresistible