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| Birth name | Luke Christopher Hubbard |
| Born | May 8, 1993 Los Angeles, California |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California |
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| Years active | 2015–present |
| Labels | ByStorm Entertainment / RCA |
| Website | Luke Christopher official website |
Luke Christopher Hubbard (born May 8, 1993) is an American rapper, singer, producer and songwriter. [1] Known as Luke Christopher, he is signed to ByStorm Entertainment / RCA.
Luke Christopher was born in Van Nuys, CA. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley and in Westlake Village, California. [2] [3] As a teenager, he started making songs in his room from scratch. After graduating from high school, he was accepted by the University of Southern California, but he did not attend due to the fact that he was offered a record deal by Interscope Records his senior year of high school.
Early on in his career, Christopher was discovered by Music Executive Ron Fair and Jimmy Iovine his senior year of high school. [4] Before releasing his first mixtape, Christopher had released several songs. [5] On January 1, 2012, he released his debut mixtape, titled Building Skies. [6] [7] The music was compared to Drake's by musical website Breakonacloud.com. [7] On July 6, 2012 he released TMRW, TMRW, a mixtape that began to make waves in Los Angeles. [8] [9]
In 2013 he signed a record agreement with ByStorm Entertainment / RCA by Mark Pitts and Peter Edge. [4] [10] On September 30, 2014 he landed a new mixtape titled TMRW, TMRW Pt. II. [11] Most of the mixtape's fifteen tracks were produced by Luke himself. [12] On January 24, 2015 Christopher's song "Lot to Learn" entered the Billboard Twitter Emerging Artists Charts at 28. [13]
On September 11, 2015, Christopher released a double EP, YSTRDY and TMRW. While YSTRDY contains remastered songs from old projects, TMRW features new content including the hit single "They Know". After its debut on iTunes, TMRW immediate positioned itself in the Top 100 albums in the Hip-Hop/Rap category. His song Roses from the TMRW was subsequently featured in the Galaxy S7 ad campaign. [14] [15]
On July 28, 2017 he published his first studio album "TMRWFRVR" including 15 songs, one of which was a copy of the 2015 hit song from the album "TMRW", "Lot to Learn" (ByStorm Entertainment and RCA).
On August 10, 2018, Christopher released the first single of his project "THE RENAISSANCE" called 'TROUBLE'. This began the weekly releasing of new singles from this project. The project ended on August 1, 2019, after he released the final song from the project 'BIG HEADED'. By the end of the project, he had released 52 songs.
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| TMRWFRVR [16] |
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| Building Skies [7] |
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| TMRW, TMRW [9] |
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| The Wonder Years Pt.1 [17] |
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| TMRW, TMRW Pt. II [11] |
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| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||
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| AUS [18] | AUT [19] | GER | ITA | NED [20] | NOR [21] | SWE [22] | |||
| "Life Jackets" | 2014 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles |
| "Ms. Holy Water" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "They Know" | 2015 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | TMRW |
| "Upside Down" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | |
| "Plans" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Lot to Learn" | 2016 | 26 | 32 | 36 | 43 | 59 | 25 | 27 | TMRW |
| "Changed Me" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | |
| "Waterfalls" [16] | 2017 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | TMRWFRVR |
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"Lot to Learn" is a song from American singer Luke Christopher, serving as a single from his EP TMRW. The song was written by Luke Hubbard. It was made available for digital download on September 11, 2015, through ByStorm Entertainment and RCA Records.
His second effort, TMRW, proves that sometimes you have to bring a bit of the past into the future, as it modernizes '30s-style jazz with piano medleys and drum snares on the first track, "Roses."
