1. Jordan Rakei was born on 23 May 1992 and is a New Zealand-Australian musician, singer, songwriter and record producer currently based in London, United Kingdom.
11 Facts About Jordan Rakei
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Jordan Rakei was born in 1992 in Tokoroa, in the Waikato of New Zealand's North Island, to a Pakeha mother and a Cook Islands Maori father.
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Jordan Rakei lived in Brisbane until he made the move to London in 2015.
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Jordan Rakei released his debut album Cloak through his own label, 4101 Records on 3 June 2016.
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On 6 June 2017, it was announced that Jordan Rakei had signed to Ninja Tune records and would be releasing his next album with them.
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In 2018, Jordan Rakei released the single "Wildfire", released on 10 May 2018, and provided the vocals on the 2018 Nightmares on Wax track "Typical".
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On 26 February 2019, Jordan Rakei released "Mind's Eye", the first single from his then unannounced third album.
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On 23 April 2019, Jordan Rakei announced this new album, titled Origin, and released a new single from it, "Say Something".
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Jordan Rakei supported the record with a series on music festival dates in Summer 2019 and then began a subsequent world tour, beginning that August in Brisbane and ending in November 2019 in Brooklyn, New York.
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Jordan Rakei said the album is his "most vulnerable and intimate album to date"; something that he attributes to listening to singer-songwriters like Laura Marling, Scott Matthews, Joni Mitchell and John Martyn while writing the record.
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In January 2024, Jordan Rakei announced that his fifth studio album, The Loop, would be released on 10 May of the same year.