Garren Sean

Bay Area musician Garren Sean first built a reputation behind the boards as a producer before stepping forward with his own engaging, minimalist R&B pop material. Early credits included beats for Towkio and Joey Purp, most notably the buoyant, funk-laced track “Smoke Break” from Chance the Rapper’s Grammy-winning 2016 mixtape Coloring Book. His 2017 debut full-length, Garren, LP, blended vivid psychedelic soul with electronically textured R&B daydreams and yielded the viral single “There She Go.”

Raised in a household saturated with music, Sean heard his father’s production work and a broad spectrum of sounds from both parents throughout childhood. At age ten he picked up violin yet quickly traded it for guitar after immersing himself in classic rock, funk, and soul. Entirely self-taught on guitar and in the studio, he began crafting beats while shaping a personal sound drawn from those varied influences. After several collaborations with established rappers, he turned to writing and recording his own songs, releasing Garren, LP in 2017 and following it the next year with the seven-song Sundrip EP, which extended his psych-informed R&B explorations.