MAX

Emerging as a pop and soul vocalist with parallel pursuits in acting and dance, MAX reached widespread audiences via his second album, Hell's Kitchen Angel, released in 2016 and anchored by the multi-platinum hit “Lights Down Low.” The 2020 full-length Colour Vision assembled high-profile contributors such as Quinn XCII, Chromeo, Hayley Kiyoko, and SUGA of BTS, while a 2021 pairing with Ali Gatie yielded the streaming favorite “Butterflies.” Further momentum arrived through the 2022 Keshi duet “It’s You,” which surfaced on his fourth studio set, Love in Stereo, issued in early 2024.

Born in New York City and raised in Woodstock, Maxwell George “MAX” Schneider started cultivating his musical abilities at age three. He secured representation at 14, then spent his late teenage years composing for Disney productions and portraying a lead role in the Nickelodeon series How to Rock. His first EP, First Encounters, appeared in 2010; four years later he guested on rapper Hoodie Allen’s debut album People Keep Talking. In 2015 MAX delivered the EP Wrong alongside his independently funded debut album NWL, which contained the Hoodie Allen collaboration “Gibberish.” Hell’s Kitchen Angel followed in 2016, spotlighting the platinum-certified single “Lights Down Low,” a track that entered the Billboard Hot 100 a full year after release and climbed to number 20 in 2018.

Subsequent releases included the 2019 Quinn XCII feature “Love Me Less” and the Chromeo-assisted “Checklist,” both later housed on Colour Vision; that project also contained “Blueberry Eyes” with SUGA of BTS and “Missed Calls” with Hayley Kiyoko. A 2022 flurry of singles brought the funk-driven “Gucci Bag” and “Wasabi,” the Keshi cut “It’s You,” and “Worst Day” with Illenium. In 2023 the joint single “Strings” arrived alongside JVKE and Bazzi. Early 2024 saw two more tracks—“Say Less” featuring Duckwrth and “Stupid in Love” with K-pop artist Huh Yun-jin—precede the arrival of Love in Stereo.