Background[edit]

Paxton-Beesley was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He also spent a year in Italy as a child, where he lived near the Tiber River.^[4] Growing up, he took part in community music programs and attended the Claude Watson School for the Arts.^[5] He attended McGill University before graduating from the Berklee School of Music.^[6][7]


He released his debut EP The Star Falls in 2013,^[3] and followed up in 2015 with When the Time Is Right.^[8] A track from the latter EP, "No Talk", was sampled by producer Boi-1da for "No Tellin'", from the 2015 album If You're Reading This It's Too Late.^[5] Paxton-Beesley has also collaborated with BADBADNOTGOOD on their 2015 album Sour Soul,^[3] with Kaytranada on his Polaris Music Prize-winning 99.9%,^[3] and with Jazz Cartier on a track for Hotel Paranoia.^[3]


He released his debut full-length album Indigo in 2016.^[9] In 2017, he won a MuchMusic Video Award for "Acid Test",^[10] and the song was a shortlisted finalist for the SOCAN Songwriting Prize in 2017.^[11] During the end of the decade, he worked with Toronto artists Charlotte Day Wilson and Daniel Caesar.


On December 9, 2022, he released his sophomore record "Dreaming Eyes".^[12] The album release was accompanied by a music video for the acclaimed track "Hypnotized" which was conceptualized and directed by Leo Aguirre.^[13] “Hypnotized” was also sampled on Kendrick Lamar’s "Savior" from his 2023 Grammy Award-winning album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers.^[14]