Following a months-long TikTok teaser campaign, London-based musician Rahul Prasad aka Renao has unleashed his very first single. “Nobody” has been doing the rounds on TikTok for a while now as the new artist’s growing community spammed the comment section demanding Renao drop the song.
Born in India, Renao started to consider music seriously when he headed to Leeds to study music at university. Meeting a bunch of like-minded friends and potential collaborators it was here he started to share demos and ideas on his Instagram and Soundcloud. His profile still has early demos of original tracks “Strawberrrry Swing” and “Still Beating,” and a lo-fi cover of Frank Ocean’s “Lost”.
Before music there was badminton, he even had Olympic ambitions, but music eventually took over everything. Inspired by American youth and pop culture, Renao loves the cinematic vistas and coming-of-age cliches which are sparked when you think of John Hughes movies, road trips, house parties and fires on the beach at sunset.