Shallou

Over the last several years, Shallou has become one of the music in-dustry's biggest and most organic success stories.

The Washington, D.C.-hailing and Los Angeles-based artist known to friends and family as Joe Boston has built a reputation for lovely, genre-slippery electronic pop that hits hard even at its most tranquil moments—with a new label home and over 350 million streams, Shallou is only getting started.

Growing up in the nation's capital, Boston was heavily influenced at a young age by his father's eclectic music taste: "Every car ride we took, he'd play Talking Heads, Radiohead, Wilco—stuff that kids don't nor-mally grow up listening to from their dads.

The music really fascinated me, and it got me into wanting to learn how to make all these crazy sounds I was hearing."