WHAT IT IS: This NYC-born pop-soul singer, actor and dancer has been making waves since being signed to Pete Wentz’s DCD2 Records. The 23-year-old star broke into the music scene, amassing more than 400k SEA for “Gibberish”—his first release on DCD2/Crush, which accrued 50m+ streams worldwide. A lifelong entertainer, music is not his only talent; MAX starred in the acclaimed Beach Boys biopic, Love & Mercy, as Van Dyke Parks and modeled for a Dolce & Gabbana campaign featuring Madonna. Currently, he’s promoting the release of his album, Hell’s Kitchen Angel, which spawned his single, “Lights Down Low”—a riveting song that features gnash and is clocking 3m+ streams per week.
ALBUM: Hell’s Kitchen Angel
RELEASE DATE: 2016
SINGLE: “Lights Down Low”
TV: Performed on NBC’s Today
LIVE: Sold-out headline tour; will open for gnash across the U.S. starting 3/31
INTERNET: 1m+ YouTube followers, 390k Twitter followers, 940k+ Facebook likes; more than 35m streams of single across all platforms; currently reaching almost 3m streams per week globally (and growing); maintained the #1 spot on Hawaii’s Shazam chart for more than four weeks; recently added to many of Spotify’s biggest playlists (including Today’s Top Hits)
RADIO: Early airplay on SiriusXM Hits 1, Radio Disney, WNCI, WSMX, WNFN, WWHT; major feature on iHeartMedia’s nationally syndicated John Jay & Rich Show, among many others; named KISS-FM’s Artist of the Week
PRESS: MTV (“Artists to Watch” Summer Class list), Teen Vogue (“His voice is perfect for the kind of piercing falsetto that is the mark of a true male pop star”); named Elvis Duran’s Artist of the Month
BOOKING: Ira Goldenring, Evan Hancock, Devin Landau/Paradigm
MANAGEMENT: Jonathan Daniel, Bob McLynn, Ian Planet/Crush Music