Dominic David Fike, is an American singer, rapper and songwriter. He is signed to Columbia Records and Se Lavi Productions.
Early life
Dominic David Fike was born on December 30, 1995 in Naples, Florida. He 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.
Fike first received recognition by making beats with his then producer, Hunter Pfeiffer leading to several popular songs on SoundCloud such as "WeControlTheWeather" published under 54's SoundCloud account. He released the EPDon'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".
2019–present: ''What Could Possibly Go Wrong''
In January 2019, Fike revealed he was working on an album. On April 4, 2019, Brockhampton uploaded a video to their YouTube channel called "This is Dominic Fike", including him and his song, "3 Nights". As of April 2019, multiple collaborations with Brockhampton's Kevin Abstract have been posted, reaching over 4 million views. On June 7, 2019, he released two singles, "Açaí Bowl" and "Rollerblades". He followed these with another single, "Phone Numbers", produced by Kenny Beats, on July 4, 2019. The music video for this song was released on October 15, 2019. Fike announced on July 9, 2019 that he would be going on a tour titled "Rain or Shine" later in the year. The North American leg of the tour began August 31 in Philadelphia and ended October 3 in Los Angeles. In September 2019, he announced that he would be doing a clothing collaboration with Marc Jacobs. On the fifth day of that month, he performed a song that was unreleased at the time, Chicken Tenders, at a Chicago concert during his Rain or Shine tour. Fike is featured on the track "Dominic's Interlude" on Halsey's third album, Manic, which was released on January 17, 2020. On June 26, 2020, "Chicken Tenders", the first single from his then yet to be named debut album, was released. On July 9, he released the single "Politics & Violence" and announced that his debut album What Could Possibly Go Wrong would be released on July 31.
