Mokita

Under the Mokita alias, Nashville-based John-Luke Carter crafts buoyant, lyric-driven electronic pop that incorporates acoustic textures. Before stepping forward as a solo artist, he accumulated songwriting and production work for Stephen Puth, Zac Brown Band, and Matoma; his own breakthrough arrived with the 2019 single “Colorblind.” He sustained that pace through a steady stream of releases, culminating in the Nettwerk-issued EP Color Me In in 2022.

Carter grew up in Nashville, where classical piano lessons occupied his early years and church services provided his first performance opportunities. He later picked up guitar on his own and shifted into electronic production. Adopting the Mokita name in 2015, he began posting tracks such as “Monopoly” and “Dreamer,” the latter featuring Kaptan. A rapid succession of singles followed—“Heaven,” “Goodbye” with Maty Noyes, and the Chuck Adams–Goldhouse collaboration “Take Me as I Am.” Streaming figures climbed with 2018’s “With You” and “London,” yet it was the introspective “Colorblind” that achieved widespread viral reach the next year.

Entering the 2020s, Carter extended his catalog through further Goldhouse pairings on “I Don’t Wanna Know” and “Washout,” alongside the solo piano ballad “Down” and the soulful “Would You Still Want Me?” October 2022 saw the arrival of Color Me In, which gathered recent standouts including “Room for Another” and “Crash” featuring Charlotte Sands.