Lookas

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Lookas
Birth nameLucas Rego
Origin Miami, Florida, United States
Genres Trap, future bass
Occupation(s) Music producer, DJ
Years active2013–present
Labels

Lucas Rego, known by his stage name Lookas, is an American music producer and DJ. He is best known for his contribution to Flo Rida's charted single, "G.D.F.R.". [1]

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Career

Rego began his music career as a teenager, when he chose music over college for a year. He credits the Miami club scene for his drive to publish. [2]

In an interview with EDM Sauce, Rego described the music scene as "trying to figure out what the next big thing is", and shares his production experience as a motivation for improvement. [3]

Rego's debut extended play, Lucid, was announced in early 2017, [4] and released on Monstercat in January 2018.

Discography

Extended plays

TitleAlbum details
Lucid

Charted singles

TitleYearPeak chart positionsAlbum
US
[5]
AUS
[6]
CAN
[7]
UK
[8]
"G.D.F.R."
(Flo Rida featuring Sage the Gemini and Lookas)
2014836103 My House

Other singles

TitleYearAlbum
"6 A.M." (with Smle)2014Non-album singles
"Chaos" (with Jayden Parx)2015
"Apollo" [9]
"Voyager" [10]
"Mercy" [11]
"Eclipse" [12] 2017Lucid
"Alarm" [13] (with Krewella)
"On My Own" (with Able Heart)2018
"Deep Breaths" [14] (featuring Cal Shapiro)Non-album singles
"Voodoo" [15] (with Edison Cole)2019
"Redline" [16] TBA

Music videos

ArtistSongYear
Lookas and Jayden ParxChaos [17] 2014
Flo Rida featuring Sage the Gemini and Lookas G.D.F.R. [18] 2014
LookasVoyager2015
LookasEclipse2018
Lookas and Krewella Alarm [19] 2018

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  2. "10 New Artists You Need to Know: January 2016". Rolling Stone. 2016-01-25. Retrieved 2019-02-10. As a teen, he convinced his parents to let him postpone college for a year to focus solely on music...Lookas credits Miami's sketchy all-ages party circuit for pushing him into producing his own material. "There was [one club] where they would throw events and I would go there and get ripped off by the promoters. I would go there and DJ for like 1,000 kids and not get paid," he says. "So I told myself I would stop playing these gigs and getting ripped off, and spending some time writing music."
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