Blake Rose @ The Echo

Blake Rose put on an amazing performance at The Echo in Los Angeles, CA on May 6, 2024. WIth Max McNown opening up the show, it made for fun all night long.

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Within just a year of releasing music, performing and teaching himself to play guitar, the Oregon-bred, Nashville-based musician has attracted the attention of major TV talent shows (he auditioned for one and then decided it wasn’t for him and gracefully turned them down,) and then had a breakout single “A Lot More Free,” which landed on Billboard’s Emerging Artists chart and release songs amassing over 40 million worldwide streams in his very first year of releasing music, all while bringing his debut album to life and expanded his burgeoning fanbase who have followed him on the journey every step of the way.

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Blake Rose

Australian singer/songwriter Blake Rose introduced his soulful pop in 2018 with the single “Hotel Room.” The song’s stylized mix of guitar, airy electronics, and clomping beats topped a million streams within a few months of release. He collected millions more clicks on tracks such as the tenderer “Gone” and “Lost” before delivering his first album, A World Gone By, in late 2021. A string of original singles quickly followed in 2022, including the driving “Magazine.”

Rose began playing music at the age of five, when he took up the didgeridoo. He moved on to guitar at ten, then delved into the basics of music production. Busking regularly throughout his teens, he eventually saved enough money to move to Los Angeles. He wrote his debut single, “Hotel Room,” with fellow Aussie singer/songwriter Joel Adams (his then-roommate) and songwriter/producer Justin Gammella. Soon after its release in November 2018, appearances in music blog features and on high-profile editorial play lists helped it quickly garner hundreds of thousands of streams. Rose followed it with “Lost” in early 2019. It went on to amass tens of millions of streams by the time he drew similar numbers with songs like “Gone” and the acoustic guitar ballad “Ordinary People,” both from 2020. The latter tune resurfaced on his debut album, A World Gone By, in October 2021. New material in the form of singles like “Confidence” and “Magazine” appeared in 2022.

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