A. Makori

Alvin Makori (<a href="spotify:artist:5PUQTvDRXiCHXRgCUbLMUh" data-name="A. Makori">A. Makori</a>) is a singer, songwriter, rapper, producer, and Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California.

Raised mostly in Seattle, Washington, A. Makori began dropping rap mixtapes shortly after he moved to Wooster, Ohio, at age 14. As he continued to release freestyles on SoundCloud throughout high school and into his undergraduate years at USC, A. Makori’s lifelong love for hip-hop soon expanded to genres like bedroom pop and lofi. Inspired during the COVID-19 pandemic by DIY artists like <a href="spotify:artist:7wbkl3zgDZEoZer357mVIw" data-name="boy pablo">boy pablo</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2Tglaf8nvDzwSQnpSrjLHP" data-name="Cuco">Cuco</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3l0CmX0FuQjFxr8SK7Vqag" data-name="Clairo">Clairo</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:2jbd7OqeJJd1hz81vOXwwW" data-name="binki">binki</a>, A. Makori released <a href="spotify:track:3hsEQY8ioeXNVf4LTJFkMC" data-name="Flowers">Flowers</a> in 2020, a soft pop ballad that weaved in elements of his rap background.

A. Makori soon followed up in 2021 with <a href="spotify:album:66lnr2yLNGzQNCcLuXrQSJ" data-name="Candles on the Furnace">Candles on the Furnace</a>, an indie track that EARMILK described as “a picture of being young, broke and into something, or someone.”

After a three year hiatus, A. Makori is set to release a number of new tracks that blend his rap lyricism with the warmth of bedroom pop melodies. Steph Evans said it best in her New Music Friday journal— “From the sounds of it, this kid should turn things to gold in his future.”