22 Facts About Moses Sumney

Moses Sumney was born on May 19,1992 and is an American singer-songwriter and actor.

Moses Sumney's self-recorded EP, Mid-City Island, was released in 2014.

Moses Sumney released another five-song EP in 2016, titled Lamentations.

Moses Sumney described his childhood as "Americanized" by this age and had difficulty adjusting to the culture of Ghana, especially the rural nature of his new environment.

Moses Sumney's family returned to Southern California when Sumney was 16, settling in Riverside.

Moses Sumney did not learn to play any instruments until he was older, writing a cappella music for years instead.

Moses Sumney did not perform his musical compositions publicly until he was 20.

Moses Sumney majored in creative writing and studied poetry, which helped him improve his songwriting.

In 2014, Moses Sumney broke into the Los Angeles music scene and caught the eye of many record labels.

Moses Sumney said at the time it did not feel right because labels were trying to conform him into a certain image and he was still trying to discover the artist that he wanted to be.

Moses Sumney decided to turn down these labels and move to Asheville, North Carolina.

Moses Sumney's 2014 debut project, Mid-City Island, is a five-song EP that was self-recorded onto a four-track recorder given to him by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio.

Moses Sumney considers his songs to be performance based, and that many of his recorded compositions derive from fleshing the songs out through live performance.

Moses Sumney has performed at venues such as the Hollywood Bowl and alongside artists such as Dirty Projectors, Junip, St Vincent, and Local Natives.

Moses Sumney sang on the opening track of Beck's album Song Reader.

On September 30,2016, Moses Sumney released Lamentations, an EP which featured a guest appearance from Thundercat.

Moses Sumney stumbled across the term "aromantic" when he began writing it back in 2014 and found the term resonated with him.

Moses Sumney played himself in Season 1 episode 4 of HBO's Random Acts of Flyness.

Moses Sumney appeared in the movie Creed and worked on the soundtrack alongside Ludwig Gorannson and Tessa Thompson.

Moses Sumney contributed a cover of the Metallica song "The Unforgiven" to the charity tribute album The Metallica Blacklist, released in September 2021.

On December 8,2021, Moses Sumney released a full-length concert film, Blackalachia, recorded over two days in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

In 2018, Moses Sumney's self-directed music video "Quarrel" won a SXSW Film Festival Special Jury Award, and was nominated for a Camerimage award and UKMVA.