James Droll

A Nashville-based singer/songwriter skilled at shaping dark-toned, melancholic pop, James Droll achieved quick streaming prominence in the late 2010s through cuts such as "Wall" and "Take a Walk," along with his appearance on the Justin Caruso hit "Caving." His consistent output of singles extended into the following decade via the 2020 Caro collaboration "The First One."

Brought up on a llama farm amid conservative rural Ohio, Droll turned to music for private expression throughout his teenage years before entering a pop-punk band during his studies at the University of Cincinnati. After relocating to Nashville for both employment and a relationship, he shifted attention to solo material and issued his debut track in 2016, the moody, electronic-laced "Wall." The recording reached streaming charts and opened doors to further releases, among them 2017's "Bad for You" and his featured role on Justin Caruso's "Caving," which later surpassed ten million streams. Across subsequent years Droll kept issuing intimate, sensual pop songs inclined toward melancholia, scoring successes with "Take a Walk" and "Old School Heartbreak." He opened 2020 with several joint projects, among them two tracks alongside Los Angeles beatmaker Trove and the single "The First One" with Caro.