Picture Credit score: Louie TheSinger’s Instagram
UMG Nashville indicators Texas native Louie TheSinger, simply three years after his jail launch, because the singer takes his second shot at life and a profession in music.
It’s been three years since Luis Alfonso Palacios II — higher often known as Louie TheSinger — served a jail sentence on the Texas State Penitentiary on drug-related costs. It was there that he watched the 2019 Billboard Music Awards, when Becky G, with whom he had shared a administration firm a decade prior, introduced Cardi B with the award for High Scorching 100 Music. And it was then that the belief totally hit him: he’d missed his shot at music fame.
“That was the day it hit me, like, ‘Dude, you misplaced your profession. You misplaced your shot. You missed it. That was it,’” says Louie.
Three years later, he was launched from jail. On October 31, 2023, Louie TheSinger formally signed with Common Music Group (UMG) Nashville, the place CEO Cindy Mabe says he’s going to be the way forward for nation music.
“I feel he’s going to stroll proper via the entrance door and he’s going to alter the whole lot and the way vast this format is, and I can’t be extra proud to be a part of this,” says Mabe. “I’m so impressed by Louie’s vitality, goal, and intention to increase the sound of nation music via his personal private story and his songs. We’re so proud to deliver Louie into the Common Music Group Nashville household!”
Rising up in Fort Price, Louie is a proud Texan, and pleased with his Mexican heritage. At present, he’s within the studio engaged on new music to launch in 2024.
“It’s loopy to suppose that I used to be simply in a jail cell three years in the past, and now I’m signed to one of many largest report labels on the earth,” says Louie. “Huge thanks to Cindy Mabe and my new fam at UMG Nashville. I’m able to disrupt nation music (in a great way). I’m simply tryna add somewhat spice and make my folks proud. It’s time Mexican Individuals have a voice on this nation world, and I’m right here for it.”
Since spending time in jail, Louie has vowed to alter the trajectory of his life. Upon his launch, he has put his concentrate on his household, in addition to creating and performing music his approach.
“Having witnessed Louie’s magnetic charisma translate on phases throughout this nation, and watch the rabid fan base he’s constructing, I do know that Louie goes to widen the nation music viewers,” concludes Cindy Mabe.
With a lifelong love of music, Louie TheSinger started his profession in R&B. He says he didn’t plan to transition into nation music, however his life experiences have led him to a uncooked, unfiltered lyricism, with associates dubbing him “the Lil Wayne of nation music.” He sings overtly about his time in jail, medication, alcohol, his mom, heartbreak, despair — and naturally, criticism he has obtained over his “legitimacy” as a rustic artist.
On social media, he boasts a following of 700,000 on Fb, 158,000 on Instagram, and over 700,000 on TikTok. Spotify Wrapped reveals that his music has loved 8.1 million streams and 743,200 listeners throughout 171 nations.