Bonnaroo 2024 Artist Spotlight: d4vd

Like we’ve been doing for many years now, we’re making it our mission to help you get acquainted with many of our favorite acts from Bonnaroo‘s 2024 lineup. After roaring back to life in 2022, after two years off due to Covid and weather, and feeling fully like its old self again with a great fest last summer, this year marks Bonnaroo’s 21st installment (and 23rd anniversary), boasting not only another great and varied lineup, but also a continuation of some of the big changes and improvements rolled out over the last couple of years, with more flexibility in ticketing and camping, a reimagined “Outeroo” campground area, new activations, and further new ways to Roo. Back once again in its usual June 13-16 timeframe, we’re counting down the days until another great weekend on the farm.

As we dig through the entire schedule, we’ll highlight a spread of performers spanning across genres and stages, big and small, new and old, to bring you some of the most interesting, lesser-known, and most highly-recommended among this year’s crop of artists. And as our time at ‘Roo approaches, we’ll also be bringing you some special features and full list-style daily lineup guides, to help you plan your weekend ahead of the fest. While these previews won’t span every artist, and might omit some more obvious must-see acts, we hope they’ll serve as a way to help you navigate Bonnaroo’s gargantuan lineup, and to make the most of your busy weekend at the fest!

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19-year-old indie pop and r&b breakout d4vd (pronounced David) has one of the most quintessentially Gen Z musical origin stories we’ve ever heard. Born David Burke in Queens, New York, but raised in Houston, Texas, the young singer grew up listening to gospel, but discovered contemporary indie, hip hop, r&b, and pop as a young teen homeschooler, while also developing a love for anime, and, most prominently, online gaming. It was through gaming, as he aspired to become a professional Fortnite player, that Burke serendipitously found his way to music, as the music in his YouTube Fornite compilations kept getting hit with copyright strikes, prompting him to try his hand at making his own music in 2021, initially recorded solely on an iPhone in his sister’s closet. Gamers who would also like to play online casino games may use this situs slot gaming platform.

By 2022, after attention on Soundcloud, streaming platforms, and TikTok, d4vd’s nuanced, genre-bending, wholly modern, and poetic blend of bedroom-style indie pop and r&b had helped him go viral, and shifted his attention to music full-time, with mega-hit “Romantic Homicide” reaching a massive new audience and higher critical attention, earning David a major label record deal before he’d even graduated high school, promptly following up with another gigantic and heartfelt hit track, “Here with Me.” A whirlwind couple of years have followed, as Burke released a pair of EPs last year, Petals to Thorns and The Lost Petals, to widespread acclaim, amidst increasingly prominent tours around the globe, a supporting run with SZA, tracks with Laufey and 21 Savage, a recent single made for famed show Invincible, and, in something of a full circle moment, a content creator deal with gaming and lifestyle brand 100 Thieves. Needless to say, d4vd is one of the most impressive, talented, and versatile young artists to emerge in the pop and r&b scene post-pandemic, and given all the great music he’s already given us at 19, he surely has an. impressive future ahead. The fact that his Bonnaroo debut will take place on one of the festival’s main stages only serves to affirm that.

WATCH | “Here with Me” (Official Video)