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The Orange County artist and producer creates dreamy soundscapes rooted in bold beat-craft, toasty warm samples, and delicate electronic alchemy. Tallying 50 million-plus streams, nearly 100 million TikTok views, and countless user-generated clips. 'The music is a Yin and Yang,' he says. 'You could study all night to it, or you can freakin' dance all night. I apply elements of pop, funk, soul, hip-hop, and electronic and make something of my own,' he adds.

During freshman year, LLusion discovered late Japanese DJ and producer Nujabes. At 16, he signed to independent label Roots of Society and started to drop music professionally. When he was 17, LLusion began performing live gigs at local bars and music venues like House of Blues. During 2018, LLusion launched his YouTube channel. He slowly but surely built a devout following before uploading a lo-fi rap reimagining of ‘Sucker’ by Jonas Brothers to TikTok in June 2019. Within two weeks, he attracted 100K followers, hovering around 3 million exactly a year later. On YouTube, he inverted pop with D.I.Y. videos such as 'If Ariana Grande made lo-Fi hip hop (7 rings)' LLusion's ‘walk but in a garden’ has 16.2 million Spotify streams & was also a Finalist in the category of 'Best YouTube Musician' at the 2020 Shorty Awards. He reups this fan favorite with an official remix featuring mxmtoon who adds nostalgic vocal bliss to the original.

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