Biography
Oakland, California-based trio Hello Yello crafts hazy grunge pop that ignores conventional genre boundaries. Guitar-driven echoes of '90s alternative pop form the core of their approach, yet traces of the members' R&B roots surface across their debut full-length album from 2023, Good Intentions.
The lineup consists of brothers Dylan Wiggins and Jaden Wiggins alongside childhood friend Martin Rodrigues. As sons of D'Wayne Wiggins, the frontman of R&B outfit Tony! Toni! Toné! that enjoyed major success from the late '80s onward through the '90s, the siblings followed a musical trajectory from childhood. Prior to Hello Yello, the pair performed in a group alongside Kehlani and handled various support positions during tours by H.E.R. and Zendaya. Late in the 2010s, the Wiggins brothers joined forces with Rodrigues to launch SMSHNG HRTS, a project that sustained the melodic R&B style the siblings had pursued up to then. The act later transformed into Hello Yello during 2018, shifting away from R&B toward a guitar-centric sound steeped in grunge. Early singles such as "Feel That Again," "Sins," and "I Don't Care" offered melodic, psychedelic alt-rock, which appeared together with additional tracks on the 2019 EP Love Wins. That same year saw the band supporting Clairo and Beabadoobee on tour while issuing the two-song release My Life as a Teenage Robot. A multi-year hiatus followed before their first proper album arrived with 2023's Good Intentions.
The lineup consists of brothers Dylan Wiggins and Jaden Wiggins alongside childhood friend Martin Rodrigues. As sons of D'Wayne Wiggins, the frontman of R&B outfit Tony! Toni! Toné! that enjoyed major success from the late '80s onward through the '90s, the siblings followed a musical trajectory from childhood. Prior to Hello Yello, the pair performed in a group alongside Kehlani and handled various support positions during tours by H.E.R. and Zendaya. Late in the 2010s, the Wiggins brothers joined forces with Rodrigues to launch SMSHNG HRTS, a project that sustained the melodic R&B style the siblings had pursued up to then. The act later transformed into Hello Yello during 2018, shifting away from R&B toward a guitar-centric sound steeped in grunge. Early singles such as "Feel That Again," "Sins," and "I Don't Care" offered melodic, psychedelic alt-rock, which appeared together with additional tracks on the 2019 EP Love Wins. That same year saw the band supporting Clairo and Beabadoobee on tour while issuing the two-song release My Life as a Teenage Robot. A multi-year hiatus followed before their first proper album arrived with 2023's Good Intentions.
Albums
Singles
